Planning Education and Practice in Transition

This special session on "Planning Education and Practice in Transition" organized by ISOCARP in collaboration with Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) brings together planning practitioners and educators in order to discuss the challenges ahead of us with the aim to think together and co-create a new planning agenda for urban health, socio-spatial justice and climate resilience.

In the general context of the main theme of the congress, session aims to bring into discussion how does or should planning education and practice, for that matter, respond to the pressing issues of our times marked by climate emergency, escalating crises of social, economic, health, spatial and environmental inequalities.

The session will focus on the following questions:

· Do our current curricula provide prospective planers with the knowledge and skills to respond to these urgent issues?

· How can we adapt the curricula to the challenges of ecological and social transition? What changes are needed in order to prepare our students for playing an effective role in transitioning to a "better world" that is decarbonized, healthy and just?

Opening:

Prof. Zeynep Enlil (ISOCARP) (3 mins max)

Presentation

Prof. Bruce Stiftel, GPEAN, Georgia Institue of Technology

 "Planning Education in the Center of Turbulence "

Short interventions:

Reflections on the needs for transitioning in planning education and practice by:

Marco Cremaschi, GPEAN/AESOP Sciences Po

Ela Babalık, AESOP, Middle East Technical University

Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha, ISOCARP, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Martina Juvara, ISOCARP

Frank D'hont, ISOCARP

Dana Behrman, Senior Urban Designer and Head of the Urban Unit, UNStudio

Olga Kotta, Urban Designer, UNStudio

Open discussion (moderated by Prof. Zeynep Enlil) - with the participation of all session speakers and with questions and issues raised by the audience (20 mins)