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Carl Steinitz: Public Participation in Landscape Planning: a Prognosis for the Future


Carl Steinitz: Public Participation in Landscape Planning: a Prognosis for the Future http://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/calendar/carl-steinitz-public-participation-in-landscape-planning-a-prognosis-for-the-future
  • Venue:
  • BIAD: Gosta Green Campus
  • Price:
  • To be announced
  • Dates:
  • 8th Feb 2012  (5:45pm)
  • Booking Information
  • Places are limited, and there is no charge. Please contact MADE to book a seat on http://www.made.org.uk/events ALL LECTURES START AT 5.45PM, ARE IN THE EMMA JESSE PHIPPS LECTURE THEATRE AT BIAD, BCU, GOSTA GREEN AND ARE FOLLOWED BY WINE AND NIBBLES IN THE CAFE.

Landscape planning, in common with all physical design activities, requires answers to six questions:

  1. How should the landscape context be described in content, space and time?
  2. How does the landscape context function ?
  3. Is the current context working well?
  4. How might the landscape context be changed in the future?
  5. What difference might the changes cause?
  6. How should the landscape context be changed?

There is a commonly held expectation that the answers to these questions and their coordination into a landscape plan for an area will be undertaken by a team of professionally and scientifically trained persons, guided by a client committee which is frequently a branch of government. My talk will show examples of how each of these questions has been answered directly through public participation. It will raise an awkward question: what will the future professional roles be when today’s developing technologies are ubiquitous and enable direct public participation in all aspects of planning and design?


Ideas and Materiality

The School of Architecture BIAD is pleased to announce the 2012 lecture series part of the Critical Design and International Studio Modules, supported by BIAD Research, The School of Architecture, the Trust Fund and MADE. The lectures are open to all staff and students of BCU and professionals in the region.

Places are limited, and there is no charge. Please contact MADE to book a seat on http://www.made.org.uk/events

ALL LECTURES START AT 5.45PM, ARE IN THE EMMA JESSE PHIPPS LECTURE THEATRE AT BIAD, BCU, GOSTA GREEN AND ARE FOLLOWED BY WINE AND NIBBLES IN THE CAFE.

Forthcoming dates will be announced soon.

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