Social Encounter by Experiment? Potentials and Pitfalls of Real-World Labs for Urban Planning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Räuchle (Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 208-220 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v6i1.3475 |
| OpenAlex | W3149669942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article explores the potential of real-world labs (RWLs) and real-world experiments (RWEs) to be a fruitful addition to established approaches in urban planning in Germany. While transdisciplinary and transformative RWLs rooted in socio-ecological sustainability studies have become an important tool for experimenting with innovative solutions for environmental challenges in cities, RWLs aimed at improving social cohesion in neighbourhoods and fostering a communal life characterised by dialogue and solidarity are rare. To this latter aim, this article contributes with research experience from a transdisciplinary RWL on cooperative urban open space development seeking to foster social cohesion in super-diverse neighbourhoods in Germany. This article analyses the contradictory perceptions of the local stakeholders involved as regards the potentials of RWEs to be a meaningful addition to established planning practices. This article makes it clear that there is greater proximity between urban planning theory, practice, and RWEs than initially assumed. Nevertheless, RWEs have considerable potential as a positive complement to established approaches to urban planning and as a means of experimenting with open-ended encounter formats in neighbourhoods
Civil engineering · Engineering ethics · Environmental planning · Geography · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Solidarity · Sustainability · Transformative learning · Urban planning · Computer Science · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Engineering · Innovation, Technology, and Society · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Ecology
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Governance for urban sustainability through real-world experimentation – Introducing an evaluation framework for transformative research involving public actors
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Collaborative Planning
The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation
Cities, experiments and the logics of the knowledge economy
Qualitative Sozialforschung
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Urban living laboratories
Commentary on the Absence of Experiments in Planning
Understanding and Managing the Unknown
Interrogating urban experiments
Changing Roles and Positions of Planners
The Experimental City
Living with difference
Planning and Experimental Knowledge Production
Urban Laboratories
Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
On the Paradox of 'Organised' Encounter
Besides Conviviality
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |