Project title:
Visioning the Future of the City Together: Group relations in urban community neighbourhood planning
“The intention of this project is to explore the role of ‘vision’ and ‘visioning’ with an urban neighbourhood planning processes in the wake of the turn to digital networks and social media’
Researcher:
Dr Karen Cross
Project proposal:
The intention of this project is to explore the role of ‘vision’ and ‘visioning’ within urban neighbourhood planning processes in the wake of the turn to digital networks and social media. The project will work directly with a citizen-led community planning group that has been given authority to prepare a local land-use plan by local government. By using a psychoanalytically-underpinned consultancy approach, the intention is to directly intervene within the planning process to enable planners to better understand the different competing emotional investments that are at play in community participation and representation. The project will then serve as a working model for future consultancy work with similar groups.
Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash
Themes:
Enabling transformational change
Encouraging the arts
Seeking justice
Promoting wellbeing
Nurturing rooted communities
Thinking globally
Amplifying voices