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Day 1 – 14th October


Regional design: Perspectives from theory

During this session, a conceptual framework for analysing, understanding and developing regional design is discussed. The aim of this session is to clarify dimensions of regional design and the performances it is expected to deliver. 

13:00 - 13:30 Gathering and small lunch 

13:30 - 14:30 Welcome and conceptual framework of regional design

Alain Thierstein, Professor of Urban Development, Munich University of Technology
Agnes Förster, Chair of Urban Development, Munich University of Technology 
Wil Zonneveld, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Delft University of Technology
Verena Balz, Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy, Delft University of Technology

14:30 - 15:30 Regional design: What kind of setting?

Reflections by Simin Davoudi, Professor of Environmental Policy & Planning at Newcastle University

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Regional design: What kind of performance?

Reflections by Terry van Dijk, Associate Professor in Planning, Vice Dean, University of Groningen (to be confirmed) 

17:00 - 18:00 Region design: What kind of design?

Reflections by Joachim Declerck, Ghent University, Architecture Workroom Brussels, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles

19:00 - 22:00 Conference dinner

 

Day 2 – 15th October

Session 2
Academic approaches to teaching regional design

This session discusses how academia manoeuvres between theory and practice while addressing academic design exercises at the scale of the region. Some of the questions that will be addressed are related to the real world versus laboratory setting dichotomy, experimentation with new visualization methods, dealing with complexity of data, time horizons and the communicative turn in planning.

  9:00 -   9:15 Welcome and brief synopsis of the first conference day

  9:15 - 10:30 Teaching regional design: Experience from Munich and Delft

Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Lukas Gilliard, Munich University of Technology
Remon Rooij, Associate Professor Spatial Planning & Strategy, Delft University of Technology

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Discussion: Key teaching challenges to regional design 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Session 3
European case-studies in regional design

In this session, case studies of regional design in the European context are presented. The aim is to engage with experts who are actively involved in the practice of regional design, to identify the major challenges they face and to test the relevance of prepositions on the performance of regional design. 

13:30 - 14:00 Introduction to the case-studies: The analytical framework 

14:00 - 17:30 Parallel workshops on three European cases studies

Workshop A: Metropoolregio Amsterdam

Expert inputs
San Verschuuren, Senior Advisor on Urban Development, Spatial Planning Department of the Municipality of Amsterdam (DRO)
Paul Gerretsen, Association Delta Metropolis
Jannemarie de Jonge, Wing, Wageningen

Workshop B: Metrobild Zürich 

Expert inputs
Wilhelm Natrup, Head of Spatial Development, Canton of Zurich
Anna Schindler, Head of Urban Development, City of Zurich
Martin Berchtold, berchtoldkrass space & options, Karlsruhe

Workshop C: Ideenwettbewerb Zukunft Metropole Ruhr 

Expert inputs
Christa Reicher, Professor of Urban Design and Land-Use Planning, Dortmund University of Technology
Martin Tönnes, Head of Planning, Ruhr Regional Association 

17:30 - 18:30 Plenary discussion

18:30 - 19:30 Snacks

Public panel discussion
The spatial future of the Munich Metropolitan Region
– lessons learnt from Europe

19:30 - 21:00                        

Panellists:
Paul Gerretsen
, Association Delta Metropolis
Max Gotz, Lord Mayor of Erding
Elisabeth Merk, Prof. Dr.(I), Head of Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulation, City of Munich
Frank Neumann, Head of Masterplanning, Munich Airport
Anna Schindler, Head of Urban Development, City of Zurich
Martin Tönnes, Head of Planning, Ruhr Regional Association

Moderator: Alain Thierstein