Addressing current and future societal challenges or urban areas around the world requires integrating thinking and insights where space, society and technology intersect. This new geo-socio-technical approach to of solving urban and land problem demands a new way of working and indeed re-conceiving of the tools and methods that inform our solutions to these challenges. Advancements in planning support and decision making technologies have enabled evidence-based scenario planning but failed in engaging a broad range of non-experts in future-oriented planning practice that accounts for deep uncertainty and complexity of societal challenges.
In this studio course, student groups engage in challenge-based learning of a real-world spatial problem setting. Geospatial and participatory technologies for systematic analysis of locational phenomena and spatial characteristics will be applied in combination with methods for eliciting local experiential knowledge of residents and other societal actors to disentangle wicked problem settings and underlying root causes and to develop visions of a sustainable urban and land future. Goal of studio-based learning approach is to provide a policy making authority with integrated insights and inspiration for new methods for producing sage, and to co-design together with them future-oriented strategies and interventions in an inclusive manner.
In this course students are exposed to various lab facilities of ITC and learn how to make use of them for data collection, stakeholder interaction and collaborative planning and decision making.