GLOBAL PLANNING STUDENTS MEETING
Bali, Indonesia, 29 August 2022
Organised as part of the 5th World Planning Schools and 16th Asian Planning Association Congress
Zeynep Gunay was cordially invited to be the keynote speaker, by the Indonesian Planning Schools Association/ASPI as the Local Organizing Committee, in the Global Planning Students Meeting, the Pre-Congress Event of the Joint 5th World Planning Schools (WPSC) on 29 August 2022. Together with the 16th Asian Planning Schools Association Congress, WPSC took form in a hybrid mode in Bali, Indonesia, and online, from Aug 29th to Sep 2nd, 2022, with the theme “Planning a Global Village: Inclusion, Innovation, and Disruption” (https://wpsc-apsa2022.org/).
Global Planning Student Meeting is a program that aims at providing opportunities for the planning students between countries to communicate and promote group cohesion, as well as providing a chance to discuss and evaluate goals and objectives. It also aims to develop courses of action through sharing of academic and professional integration. The meeting is organised by the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA).
Zeynep, in her speech on “Trends and challenges for planning: Knowledge, dialogue and power”, manifested on ISOCARP’s Young Planning Professionals Programme as a platform, in the pursuit of power/knowledge politics, to question how planning profession (as so the planning education) transform itself into a manifestation to conceptualize and intervene in the everyday life, while decreasing the distance from the real world and the actors of the real world. Not only as a medium to contextualise on the future of our cities – the ways of re-thinking and co-acting for resilience, creativity, inclusivity, Justice, but also to increase critical, creative and experiential thinking, to understand many (not right, not legitimate) truths in constant flux and negotiation in the discovery of the self, and the role of the self, as planners, within. The questions included: What are the narratives speculating the ways of unfolding the destructive demands of crisis or the crisis in planning? What are the new ways to reconfigure our relations to earth and its inhabitants human and non-human – more than human? What are the roles of knowledge, dialogue and power in era of inclusion and disruption? How to leap the future we all desire and need? What can we learn from ISOCARP or similar networks?