Dialogue, Workshop
PlanDag 2023 – Never or Now!
Deconstruct to reconstruct
The 2023 edition of the PlanDag is also this year’s event which spurs the dialogue among Dutch and Belgian spatial professionals on the developments in their field. During the PlanDag we will look for possibilities for regime change within the spatial domain. This is much needed.
While our daily environment seems to be changing faster than ever before, many of our spatial policies are still based on outdated visions or concepts. In this decade of action, we must ensure that spatial development offers sustainable and forward-looking solutions to the grand societal challenges our world is facing.
Morning Program
The morning program focuses on the shift from a transition approach to a system change. Several transitions lead to (re)new(ed) spatial claims. However, the growing scarcity of space makes it increasingly clear that we can no longer see these spatial claims, and therefore also the linked transitions, separately. Our proposition for the morning program is: We can no longer continue to work on individual transitions, we must build a new system!
Afternoon Program
In the afternoon sessions, the following questions will spur the dialogue among the spatial professionals in various sessions: How do we ensure that, in the decade of action, spatial thinking is steering, in order to provide sustainable solutions for the grand challenges our world is facing? How do we succeed to initiate structural change based on policy plans? How can we use the grand challenges to initiate systemic change? How do we deconstruct obsolete structures?How do we make spatial transitions fair and preferably also fun for all? How do we ensure that good examples become common practice? And what does this all mean for our professional field?
Speakers
Prof. Vincent Marchau is professor of Uncertainty and Adaptivity of Social Systems at Radboud University. His research focuses on (approaches for) long-term decision-making based on mobility, logistics, water, spatial planning. In his contribution, Marchau will discuss how to deal with uncertainty in major social transitions.
Marije ten Kate is Head Urban Planner at the municipality of Rotterdam. Since 2017 she’s leading the Rotterdam innovation program #NextCity. In this program the municipality explores alternative ways of thinking and acting to deal with the new and often unexpected spatial impact of transitions on the city.
Koen Wynants is the founder of Commons Lab and was active for 10 years in the citizens' collective "Antwerpen aan't woord". There he got convinced that the city is a shared responsibility. Citizens, civil society, entrepreneurs, civil servants, politicians, ... together make a city.