Lectures Theorising Spatial Practices
Inhoudsopgave
Lecture 1: Course introduction and Notions of Placemaking ............................................................................ 3
1: Introduction of course .................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Learning goals .......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Overarching Course Themes .................................................................................................................... 4
2: Notions of placemaking .................................................................................................................................. 5
2.1 What is placemaking................................................................................................................................ 5
2.2 Placemaking & overarching course themes ............................................................................................ 5
2.3 Definitions of placemaking ...................................................................................................................... 5
Lecture 2: Understanding Conflicts in Planning, Policy and Space .................................................................... 7
1: Conceptual Frameworks ................................................................................................................................. 7
1.1 Antagonism, Agonism .............................................................................................................................. 7
1.2 Conflict, consensus, conflictual consensus .............................................................................................. 7
1.3 Reviewing agonistic planning theories .................................................................................................... 7
2: Locating agonisms .......................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Case 1: conflicts about Public art in Vancouver’s Chinatown .................................................................. 8
2.2 Case 2: Conflicts about constructing a bridge in a UNESCO heritage area ............................................ 10
Lecture 3: Space/Place ................................................................................................................................... 11
Phenomenology of Space and Place ................................................................................................................. 11
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)......................................................................................................................... 11
Jakob Johann von Uexkull (1864-1944) ............................................................................................................ 13
Different nuanced versions of phenomenology ................................................................................................ 13
Lecture 4: Plenary: Space/Place ..................................................................................................................... 14
Yi Fu Tuan: Space and Place ............................................................................................................................. 14
Edward Relph: Place and Placelessness ............................................................................................................ 15
Practical examples ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Ruhr Area ..................................................................................................................................................... 17
People make places. .................................................................................................................................... 17
Lecture 5: Introduction to Agonistic Negotiation Game (ANG) ....................................................................... 19
General introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 19
Why a game?.................................................................................................................................................... 19
Potential sources of information/inspiration ................................................................................................... 19
Detailed instructions (7 steps) .......................................................................................................................... 20
Introducing negotiation styles .......................................................................................................................... 22
Lecture 6 (Wiering) Schools of thought in policy analysis ............................................................................... 24
Core perspectives in policy analysis .................................................................................................................. 24
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, Zooming in on: network management ............................................................................................................. 24
Basic principles ............................................................................................................................................ 25
Important for the negotiation game ........................................................................................................... 26
Institutional perspectives ................................................................................................................................. 26
Basic principles ............................................................................................................................................ 26
Lecture 7: Justice, Difference .......................................................................................................................... 28
Iris Marion Young 1949-2006 ........................................................................................................................... 28
Justice ............................................................................................................................................................... 28
Social Groups .................................................................................................................................................... 28
5 Faces of Oppression (Young, 1990) ............................................................................................................... 29
Lecture 8: Seeking Spatial Justice ................................................................................................................... 31
Historical arguments around ‘spatial justice’ ................................................................................................... 31
The Marxist Turn in Justice studies ................................................................................................................... 31
Ontological restructuring (Soja, 1989) ............................................................................................................. 32
Right to the City ................................................................................................................................................ 32
Lecture 9: Bargaining beyond consensus – introducing agonistic theory in policy, politics and planning ........ 34
1: Critical policy studies .................................................................................................................................... 35
2: Policy, planning and conflict ......................................................................................................................... 35
3: Practical Case Study for ANG ........................................................................................................................ 37
4: Discussion and wrap-up................................................................................................................................ 37
Lecture 10: Space as technology of inequality ................................................................................................ 39
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,Lecture 1: Course introduction and Notions of Placemaking
Friederike Landau-Donnelly 12-04-22
Today
1: Introduction of course
1.1 Learning goals
1.2 Overarching Course Themes
1.3 Course schedule
2: Notions of placemaking
2.1 What is placemaking
2.2 Placemaking & overarching course themes
2.3 Definitions of placemaking
1: Introduction of course
1.1 Learning goals
After completing TSP students should be able to:
• Explain and critically discuss the relationship between space and place, as mediated by
human and more-than-human-actors
• Discuss and apply theoretical concepts such as phenomenological and affective approaches
to space and place
• Reflect upon entangled social, ethical and affective qualities of the social production of
space
• Independently implement insights gained from conceptual debates on space and place to an
existing local area in Nijmegen and its surroundings
• Question ontologies of space (and place) to ask what space ‘is’ and who is it constituted by
• Explain, compare and discuss diverse approaches to the trope of spatial (in)justice
• Differentiate schools of thought on policy, ranging from rationalist, institutional to
discursive approaches to policy-making, and discuss the impact of policy on the production of
space
• Discuss and critically apply different theories of conflicts to analyse contemporary socio-
spatial challenges such as inequality, racism, exclusion, heteronormativity, paternalism
• Design a multi-stakeholder gamified experience of a planning or policy problem to be
discussed via negotiation and political bargaining tactics
• Creatively work with the theories introduced in the course and apply them to real-life
problems, or scenarios you develop yourself in the context of the negotiation game
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, 1.2 Overarching Course Themes
Space/place
“When humans invest meaning in a portion of space and then become attached to it on some way
(naming is one such way) it becomes a place”. Cresswell 2011.
- Tim Cresswell: *1965. Human geographer and working poet. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Interested in mobilities.
Spatial (in)justice)
“A critical spatial perspective of some sort has become increasingly relevant to understanding the
contemporary condition, whether we are pondering the increasing intervention of electronic media
in our daily routines, trying to understanding the multiplying geopolitical conflicts around the globe,
or seeking ways to act politically…“Soja 2010, p. 14
- „we are just as much spatial as temporal beings…“Soja 2010, p. 16
- Edward Soja. 1940-2015. University of California, Los Angeles. coined the concept of spatial
justice
Conflict/agonism
“Consensus is needed on the institutions constitutive of democracy and on the “ethico-political”
values informing the political association – liberty and equality for all – but there will always be
disagreement concerning their meaning and the way they should be implemented. In a pluralist
democracy such disagreements are not only legitimate but also necessary. They provide the stuff of
democratic politics.” Mouffe 2005, p. 31
- Chantal Mouffe. *1943. Belgian, University of Westminster, London. political theorist and
political scientist
What are the connections and differences between space and place? How does a place get
constituted?
How does justice play out in space? How does injustice feel like in urban place? And how can justice
be erected/built?
How do conflicts manifest in space? And how does space smoothen, fuel and negotiate conflicts
about ownership, belonging?
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Inhoudsopgave
Lecture 1: Course introduction and Notions of Placemaking ............................................................................ 3
1: Introduction of course .................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Learning goals .......................................................................................................................................... 3
1.2 Overarching Course Themes .................................................................................................................... 4
2: Notions of placemaking .................................................................................................................................. 5
2.1 What is placemaking................................................................................................................................ 5
2.2 Placemaking & overarching course themes ............................................................................................ 5
2.3 Definitions of placemaking ...................................................................................................................... 5
Lecture 2: Understanding Conflicts in Planning, Policy and Space .................................................................... 7
1: Conceptual Frameworks ................................................................................................................................. 7
1.1 Antagonism, Agonism .............................................................................................................................. 7
1.2 Conflict, consensus, conflictual consensus .............................................................................................. 7
1.3 Reviewing agonistic planning theories .................................................................................................... 7
2: Locating agonisms .......................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Case 1: conflicts about Public art in Vancouver’s Chinatown .................................................................. 8
2.2 Case 2: Conflicts about constructing a bridge in a UNESCO heritage area ............................................ 10
Lecture 3: Space/Place ................................................................................................................................... 11
Phenomenology of Space and Place ................................................................................................................. 11
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)......................................................................................................................... 11
Jakob Johann von Uexkull (1864-1944) ............................................................................................................ 13
Different nuanced versions of phenomenology ................................................................................................ 13
Lecture 4: Plenary: Space/Place ..................................................................................................................... 14
Yi Fu Tuan: Space and Place ............................................................................................................................. 14
Edward Relph: Place and Placelessness ............................................................................................................ 15
Practical examples ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Ruhr Area ..................................................................................................................................................... 17
People make places. .................................................................................................................................... 17
Lecture 5: Introduction to Agonistic Negotiation Game (ANG) ....................................................................... 19
General introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 19
Why a game?.................................................................................................................................................... 19
Potential sources of information/inspiration ................................................................................................... 19
Detailed instructions (7 steps) .......................................................................................................................... 20
Introducing negotiation styles .......................................................................................................................... 22
Lecture 6 (Wiering) Schools of thought in policy analysis ............................................................................... 24
Core perspectives in policy analysis .................................................................................................................. 24
1
, Zooming in on: network management ............................................................................................................. 24
Basic principles ............................................................................................................................................ 25
Important for the negotiation game ........................................................................................................... 26
Institutional perspectives ................................................................................................................................. 26
Basic principles ............................................................................................................................................ 26
Lecture 7: Justice, Difference .......................................................................................................................... 28
Iris Marion Young 1949-2006 ........................................................................................................................... 28
Justice ............................................................................................................................................................... 28
Social Groups .................................................................................................................................................... 28
5 Faces of Oppression (Young, 1990) ............................................................................................................... 29
Lecture 8: Seeking Spatial Justice ................................................................................................................... 31
Historical arguments around ‘spatial justice’ ................................................................................................... 31
The Marxist Turn in Justice studies ................................................................................................................... 31
Ontological restructuring (Soja, 1989) ............................................................................................................. 32
Right to the City ................................................................................................................................................ 32
Lecture 9: Bargaining beyond consensus – introducing agonistic theory in policy, politics and planning ........ 34
1: Critical policy studies .................................................................................................................................... 35
2: Policy, planning and conflict ......................................................................................................................... 35
3: Practical Case Study for ANG ........................................................................................................................ 37
4: Discussion and wrap-up................................................................................................................................ 37
Lecture 10: Space as technology of inequality ................................................................................................ 39
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,Lecture 1: Course introduction and Notions of Placemaking
Friederike Landau-Donnelly 12-04-22
Today
1: Introduction of course
1.1 Learning goals
1.2 Overarching Course Themes
1.3 Course schedule
2: Notions of placemaking
2.1 What is placemaking
2.2 Placemaking & overarching course themes
2.3 Definitions of placemaking
1: Introduction of course
1.1 Learning goals
After completing TSP students should be able to:
• Explain and critically discuss the relationship between space and place, as mediated by
human and more-than-human-actors
• Discuss and apply theoretical concepts such as phenomenological and affective approaches
to space and place
• Reflect upon entangled social, ethical and affective qualities of the social production of
space
• Independently implement insights gained from conceptual debates on space and place to an
existing local area in Nijmegen and its surroundings
• Question ontologies of space (and place) to ask what space ‘is’ and who is it constituted by
• Explain, compare and discuss diverse approaches to the trope of spatial (in)justice
• Differentiate schools of thought on policy, ranging from rationalist, institutional to
discursive approaches to policy-making, and discuss the impact of policy on the production of
space
• Discuss and critically apply different theories of conflicts to analyse contemporary socio-
spatial challenges such as inequality, racism, exclusion, heteronormativity, paternalism
• Design a multi-stakeholder gamified experience of a planning or policy problem to be
discussed via negotiation and political bargaining tactics
• Creatively work with the theories introduced in the course and apply them to real-life
problems, or scenarios you develop yourself in the context of the negotiation game
3
, 1.2 Overarching Course Themes
Space/place
“When humans invest meaning in a portion of space and then become attached to it on some way
(naming is one such way) it becomes a place”. Cresswell 2011.
- Tim Cresswell: *1965. Human geographer and working poet. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Interested in mobilities.
Spatial (in)justice)
“A critical spatial perspective of some sort has become increasingly relevant to understanding the
contemporary condition, whether we are pondering the increasing intervention of electronic media
in our daily routines, trying to understanding the multiplying geopolitical conflicts around the globe,
or seeking ways to act politically…“Soja 2010, p. 14
- „we are just as much spatial as temporal beings…“Soja 2010, p. 16
- Edward Soja. 1940-2015. University of California, Los Angeles. coined the concept of spatial
justice
Conflict/agonism
“Consensus is needed on the institutions constitutive of democracy and on the “ethico-political”
values informing the political association – liberty and equality for all – but there will always be
disagreement concerning their meaning and the way they should be implemented. In a pluralist
democracy such disagreements are not only legitimate but also necessary. They provide the stuff of
democratic politics.” Mouffe 2005, p. 31
- Chantal Mouffe. *1943. Belgian, University of Westminster, London. political theorist and
political scientist
What are the connections and differences between space and place? How does a place get
constituted?
How does justice play out in space? How does injustice feel like in urban place? And how can justice
be erected/built?
How do conflicts manifest in space? And how does space smoothen, fuel and negotiate conflicts
about ownership, belonging?
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