Seminar on Planning Theory and Practice: Critical Pragmatism, Democracy, Law and Power

PROGRAMME

13:00 Raine Mäntysalo, professor/Aalto University: Welcome!

13:10 Keynote: John Forester, professor emeritus/Cornell University: Critical Pragmatism, Attentive Listening, and Improvising in the Face of Power

14:10 Coffee break

14:30 Hanna Mattila, associate professor/Aalborg University & Aalto University: Recognition and its infrastructure in planning

15:10 Aleksi Heinilä, university lecturer/University of Eastern Finland: Constitutional State as the institutional framework for Communicative Planning

15:50 Short break

16:00 Martin Westin, researcher/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Authority in facilitation practice: a conceptual framework to shed light on facilitators’ use of power

16:40-17:00 Closing discussion

Professor emeritus John Forester, Cornell University, is a world known planning scholar whose research ranges from groundbreaking work on communicative planning theory to his more recent research into the micropolitics of the planning process, ethics, and political deliberation, examining the ways that planners shape participatory processes and manage public disputes in diverse settings. His most recent books include How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories (New York: New Village Press, 2021) and Conflict, Improvisation, Governance: Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy (with David Laws, Routledge, 2015).