At the end of the Summer School,
you will be able to:
01 Identify mechanisms of spatial injustice & exclusion
Identify the mechanisms through which spatial injustice and social exclusion are produced and reproduced in urban environments, including displacement, unequal access to public goods, exclusion from decision-making, environmental inequality, and the uneven distribution of opportunities and risks.
02 Analyse an urban district using multiple forms of knowledge
Analyse an urban district using multiple forms of spatial knowledge, including quantitative data, maps, policy documents, historical evidence, resident testimony, and community organising practices.
03 Explain how planning & governance shape urban outcomes
Explain how spatial planning, governance arrangements, and democratic institutions shape urban development outcomes, and how planning decisions can either reinforce or challenge spatial injustice.
04 Evaluate implications of planning interventions
Evaluate the social, economic, environmental, and political implications of planning and design interventions, paying particular attention to their effects on vulnerable and historically marginalised groups.
05 Develop a justice-oriented spatial strategy
Develop a Justice-Oriented Spatial Strategy: a spatially grounded and evidence-based strategy that addresses a specific injustice through planning instruments, public investment, governance arrangements, or participatory mechanisms.
06 Integrate spatial justice principles into planning proposals
Integrate principles of spatial justice, participation, and social sustainability into urban planning and design proposals, recognising the importance of social infrastructure, community capacity, inclusion, and democratic engagement.
07 Connect spatial design to systems of governance & power
Connect spatial design decisions to broader systems of governance, demonstrating an understanding of how public, private, and civic actors shape urban development and how power can be negotiated, contested, or redistributed.
08 Reflect critically on your positionality as a planner or designer
Reflect critically on your own positionality as planners and designers, including the assumptions embedded in your methods, the limits of your knowledge, and the ethical responsibilities involved in proposing change in communities that are not your own.
You should be able to answer these questions:
- What injustice is being addressed? Identify specific forms of spatial injustice
- Through what mechanism does it operate? Explain planning, governance and institutional mechanisms
- Who gains and who loses? Evaluate distributional consequences
- Which planning instrument is used? Apply specific tools of spatial planning
- What institutional conditions are needed? Explain governance and institutional structures
- How are public, private and civic actors involved? Assess roles of public, private and civic actors
- How are social, economic and environmental sustainability addressed? Integrate the three dimensions of sustainability
- What values underlie the proposition? Reflect critically on values and positionality
- How are excluded groups considered? Design proposals responsive to marginalised groups
- How is the proposition grounded in evidence? Analyse urban districts using multiple forms of knowledge