Conference Outline
Nowadays urban development processes get much more diversified than in even recent past. At the same time, contemporary planning discourse mainly focuses on goals and principles of sustainable transformation and not so much on implementation instruments. This relates to both the mode of discussing possible planning and development solutions and to the implementation models and mechanisms. And even if some issues are debated and tested in different contexts, like spurring participation and involvement of all stakeholders in the planning and development processes, these are not part of the formal processes and procedures. This comes – among others – from the fact that we are still in search of the best possible, innovative, and responding to the current needs, planning instruments, which are not codified and have not become part of the planning system yet.
The main purpose of organizing the conference on „Flexible Planning” is to present and discuss currently debated and practiced planning instruments that go beyond formalized procedures. The intention is to invite practitioners (planners and urban designers), municipal leaders (mayors, city architects, and planners), academicians, and other professionals dealing with shaping innovative instruments that can deal with specific problems and issues in urban development.
The conference program will include several sessions, including:
- Keynote presentations – dealing with both contemporary principles of urban development and practices associated with planning and development processes
- Analyses of lessons learned from various informal planning undertakings – workshops, seminars, discussions, etc.
- Discussions on key issues for contemporary planning practice – including participation and co-creation processes
- Reflections on interrelations between design and planning principles, planning methods, and implementation practices.The intention is to make this conference a venue for exchanging good practices and reassuring the key stakeholders in efforts associated with refining the local planning practices. At the same time, this will serve as a launch event for the new planning agenda for the City of Gdańsk.
The event is hosted jointly by the City of Gdansk, Fahrenheit Universities, and the Society of Polish Town Planners. At the same time, this will become an ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) Regional Event. Among others, the members of the Global Planners Network as well as of the European Council of Town Planners (ECTP) will be participating in it.
The conference will be in-person only, with no live streaming. Although, the entire event will be recorded and in subsequent weeks these recordings will be made available for everyone interested on the website of the Office of the Gdansk City Architect:
www.gdansk.pl/bam
Participation in the conference is free of charge, although registration will be required. Everyone interested in participating in the event is kindly asked to send a short e-mail to the conference secretariat: city.arch@gdansk.gda.pl
Conference programme
Venue: Main Aula, Main Building, Gdansk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12 Gdańsk
Thursday, Dec. 1st
Introductory lecture
9.15 – 10.45 – The essential ingredient for making livable cities – Dhiru Thadani (ISOCARP)
10.45 – 11.15 – coffee break
11.15 – 11.30 – conference opening
Representative of GdanskTech, Piotr Lorens (City of Gdańsk), Tomasz Majda (Society of Polish Town Planners – TUP), Janet Askew (European Council of Spatial Planners – Conseil Europeen des Urbanistes ECTP-CEU), Pietro Elisei (International Society of City and Regional Planners – ISOCARP )
Session 1 – Importance of flexible planning for shaping the contemporary urban planning systems – Chair: Piotr Lorens
11.30 – 11.50 – Innovation in planning: Contemporary tools and planning paths – Pietro Elisei (ISOCARP)
11.50 – 12.10 – Adopting a more flexible and discretionary approach in Europe: the contribution of professional planners – Janet Askew (ECTP-CEU)
12.10 – 12.25 – Directions of change of the Polish planning system – Tomasz Majda (TUP)
12.25 – 12.40 – Flexibility of planning vs. Flexibility of law. Review of legislative technique measures to make statutory regulations more flexible – Jakub Szlachetko (University of Gdańsk) 12.40 – 12.55 – The missing link – the third scale of planning in the experience of Łódź – Aneta Tomczak (TUP)
12.55 – 13.10 – Inauguration of the DecydujMY! project – about education in participation and about cross-sectoral cooperation – Martyna Nagórska (Fundacja RC, TUP)
13.10 – 13.30 – Discussion
13.30 – 14.30 – lunch
Session 2 – Flexible planning within the planning system – Chair: Janet Askew
14.30 – 14.50 – The Planning System We Need – How to review and reform hard and soft planning regulations and conventions at national and city-scales – Frank D’hondt (ISOCARP)
14.50 – 15.20 – Planning for Flexibility: New Instruments – New Concepts – Hendrik van den Kamp (ECTP-CEU)
15.20 – 15.35 – Experience in comprehensive development planning – the example of Port Praski in Warsaw – Szymon Wojciechowski (APA Wojciechowski) 15.35 – 15.50 – Experience in comprehensive development planning – the example of Young City in Gdańsk – Paweł Majkusiak (JEMS Architekci)
15.50 – 16.00 – Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 – coffee break
Sesja 3 – Elastyczne planowanie we współczesnej praktyce – Chair: Frank D’hondt
16.30 – 16.50 – Professional experiences in complex planning approaches – Markus Hedorfer (ECTP-CEU)
16.50 – 17.10 – Can informal planning combined with master planning improve spatial quality and realizations – Guy Vloebergh (OMGEVING cv – Antwerp University)
17.10 – 17.25 – Urban concept and structure plan in planning city-forming processes in degraded areas – Michał Stangel (Silesian University of Technology)
17.25 – 17.40 – Cooperative urban development in the inner city and at the fringe – two good practices in Leipzig – Luise Kneipel, Thomas Mehlhorn (City of Leipzig)
17.40 – 18.00 – Discussion
EVENING – 19.00 – reception – Olivia Business Centre
Friday, Dec. 2nd
Special session
9.00 – 9.30 – New Urban Agenda for Gdańsk – Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, Mayor of the City of Gdańsk
Session 4 – Flexible planning as a result of joint efforts of experts, academicians and practitioners – Chair: Agnieszka Zimnicka
9.30 – 9.45 – Masterplans as contemporary instruments for shaping comprehensive urban structures – Weronika Mazurkiewicz (TUP, PG) 9.45 – 10.00 – From student solutions to broad discussions on the development of the City of Gdańsk – Karolina Krośnicka, Małgorzata Kostrzewska, Justyna Wieczerzak (TUP, PG) 10.00 – 10.15 – Quo Vadis Gdańsku? Residents plan their city in 2015. Bottom-up approach in spatial planning – Gabriela Rembarz, Justyna Martyniuk-Pęczek, Przemysław Kluz (PG, TUP, GFIS)
10.15 – 10.30 – Master planning in practice of operational urbanism – conclusions from Polish experiences – Monika Arczyńska, Łukasz Pancewicz (A2P2, TUP)
10.30 – 11.00 – coffee break
Session 5 – Flexible planning in the contest of the formalized systems – Chair: Pietro Elisei
11.00 – 11.20 – Wrocław: Recycling space in light of the Sustainable Development Goals – Jakub Mazur, Vice Mayor of the City of Wrocław
11.20 – 11.40 – ‘NON-STANDARD’- Complementing statutory planning – Markus Appenzeller (MLA+, ISOCARP)
11.40 – 12.00 – Instruments of flexible planning in Poland – practice and perspectives – Łukasz Mikuła (UAM Poznań)
12.00 – 12.15 – Lights and shadows of flexibility in planning, a voice from London – Agnieszka Zimnicka (London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
12.15 – 12.30 – Social consultation tools used in the preparation of the new Study of Warsaw – Monika Konrad (UM Warszawa)
12.30 – 12.45 – Development, Growth and Flexibility: Planning Experiences from Qatar – Sławomir Ledwoń (Ministry of Municipality, Qatar)
12.45 – 13.00 – Dyskusja
13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch
Session 6 – Flexible planning within the experiences of cities – Chair: Izabela Mironowicz
14.00 – 14.20 – The use of urban design in planning Polish cities – different scales and possibilities – Krystyna Solarek (TUP, Warsaw University of Technology)
14.20 – 14.40 – Better Building Brussels – Kristiaan Borret (BMA Brussels – City Architect of Brussels)
14.40 – 15.00 – Practice of flexible planning on the example of Warsaw – Marlena Happach (City Architect of Warsaw)
15.00 – 15.20 – Dream and ,,REAL”- planning case study of teh New Centre of Łódź– Marek Janiak (City Architect of Łódź)
15.20 – 15.30 – Discussion
15.30 – 16.00 – coffee break
Session 7 – Selected issues in shaping the flexible planning systems – Chair: Piotr Lorens
16.00 – 16.20 – Enhancing urban spaces through underground spaces – Antonia Cornaro (ETH & ITACUS)
16.20 – 16.40 – “(Re)Shaping City Districts – with the help of Young Professional Think Deep Programme – Petr Salak (ITACUS)
16.40 – 17.00 – New Downtown of Bratislava – Vision vs. Reality – Zuzana Ladzianska (SPECTRA STUBA)
17.00 – 17.20 – Vienna experience in urban development – Manfred Schrenk (REAL CORP, ISOCARP)
17.20 – 17.40 – Architecture Planning – Acceptance of Territorial Complexity – Jacek Rymaszewski (SLETH)
17.40 – 18.00 – Discussion
18.00 – Conference closure
