Learning from Practice in the Face of Conflict and Integrating Technical Expertise with Participatory Planning
Learning from Practice in the Face of Conflict and Integrating Technical Expertise with Participatory Planning
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面对冲突从实践中学习并将技术专长与参与式规划相结合
DOI:
10.1080/14649357.2011.586810
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Camilla Perrone and Raine Mantysalo
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作者:
John Forester;Lawrence Susskind;Karen Umemoto;Masahiro Matsuura;Giancarlo Paba;Camilla Perrone and Raine Mantysalo
In the practice stories and commentaries that follow, good practice leads and inspires good theory. We will read about transportation planning and environmental management, about community involvement and multi-stakeholder negotiations, and throughout about deftly bringing technical expertise into play to inform creative proposals while working within specified budget constraints. We will read about early and even virtual negotiations among building users to inform architects’ design choices and their more or less productive professional roles too. And there’s much more. Laurence Sherman’s practice stories do not just promise, but show us, ambitious possibilities of the planning and design professions. Sherman is always neck deep in real project complexities, and so he always has to shape the participation of both professional experts and multiple lay stakeholders. Sherman always attends too to the subtle enabling roles of designers and planners who hope not just to listen but to create, not just to solve problems but to solve the right problems, not just to make convenient agreements but to satisfy real and diverse interests. At the same time that we read about building design, transportation and environmental planning, community development and more, we see Sherman also dealing always carefully with issues of participation and power, and especially with the slippery shaping of the roles of well-meaning experts and design professionals. Sherman shows us poignantly how the good intentions of design professionals and related experts can go wrong. Ironically enough, we see, experts’ eagerness or presumptions to talk too soon can have perverse effects, perhaps silencing those knowledgeable but less professionally trained, perhaps narrowing agendas prematurely. Here the timing of talking is not really about talk at all; it’s about respect, power, being taken seriously, agenda-setting, creativity, and process design. In a wonderful short story, too, Sherman shows us how the ordinary language of a well publicized proposal by a rural township’s mayor to have an open public “debate” about an incineration plant threatened to lead to real chaos, had Sherman not stepped into the picture. Here the deceptively simple framing of “What kind of meeting are we going to have? What are we coming together to do?” mattered a great deal.“Are we going to have a