Recently, I co-organised a Webinar on Arts and Science in Planning with Sofia Greaves, Sofia Wiberg, Marcos L. Rosa and Raine Mäntysalo, together with Susa Eräranta. The debate touched on so many important themes that warrant much deeper discussion. It showed the breadth of relevance that art already has and is gaining further in the field of planning. Several speakers provided very concrete examples of how different forms of art – from the performative, to collage, to architecture, and more – can transform connections made between actors in planning, as well as their ways of thinking about themselves, each-other and about what can be done to improve the condition of the world, from their (joint) perspectives.

The Planning Dialogues series serves to pick up on various angles of how change might occur or be blocked in planning processes and beyond. It is inserted into the Mobile Worlds project to the extent that the series explores, together with selected experts, ways that “thinking otherwise” can be achieved. The series emerged from the same motivations that led to the Mobile Worlds project, and many of the results are feeding into the process of knowledge building on this topic for the project.

Stay tuned for the upcoming webinars! Check details and sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/planning-dialogues-exploring-change-3282439

If you missed a previous webinar, you can watch them afterwards via: https://www.youtube.com/channel/@PlanningDialogues