The Creative Urban Planner - An Investigation of Creativity within Urban Planning
Authors
Robenhagen, Jonas ; Danila, Radu
Term
4. Term
Publication year
2017
Submitted on
2017-06-02
Pages
97
Abstract
This thesis investigates how mediation in urban planning can be understood as a creative activity. Drawing on a bounded concept of creativity and on collaborative and communicative planning theories, it develops an analytical framework that highlights dialogue and negotiation as core processes. The framework conceives creativity as the targeted application and expansion of knowledge and emphasizes the cultivation of a creative mindset among participants. Methodologically, the work first conducts a theoretical analysis that combines planning theory and creativity scholarship, and then applies this lens to a case study of mediation in practice to examine how facilitation, dialogue, and negotiation lead to shared outcomes. The theoretical analysis suggests that the mediator is not primarily the creative actor but a facilitator of a creative process, with negotiation functioning as the creative arena and dialogue preparing participants by fostering a creative mindset. The discussion qualifies this by arguing that the planner can also be seen as a creative practitioner insofar as he or she enables participants’ creativity through dialogue. The thesis thus reframes the planner’s creative role as the capacity to design processes that support co-creation and innovative negotiated outcomes.
Dette speciale undersøger, hvordan mægling i byplanlægning kan forstås som en kreativ aktivitet. Med udgangspunkt i et afgrænset kreativitetsbegreb og teorier om kollaborativ og kommunikativ planlægning opbygges et analytisk rammeværk, hvor dialog og forhandling ses som centrale processer. Rammeværket forstår kreativitet som en målrettet anvendelse og udvidelse af viden og betoner udviklingen af et kreativt mindset hos deltagerne. Metodisk anvendes først en teoretisk analyse, der kombinerer planlægningsteori og kreativitetslitteratur, og dernæst et casestudie af mægling i praksis for at belyse, hvordan facilitering, dialog og forhandling omsættes til fælles resultater. Den teoretiske analyse peger på, at mægleren ikke primært er den skabende aktør, men snarere facilitator af en kreativ proces, hvor selve forhandlingen udgør det kreative rum, og hvor dialogen forbereder deltagerne ved at udvikle deres kreative mindset. I diskussionen nuanceres dette ved at argumentere for, at planlæggeren også kan betragtes som en kreativ praktiker i det omfang, han eller hun skaber rammerne for deltagernes kreativitet gennem dialog. Specialet bidrager dermed med en forståelse af planlæggerens kreative rolle som evnen til at forme processer, der fremmer samskabelse og innovative forhandlingsudfald.
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