Engagement

 

For more than 40 years, planners have been critical of top-down, rational-comprehensive, and modernist approaches to planning practice. In response, the Workshop is based on an engaged model of learning, research and planning practice. While technical skills and competencies are still important, the workshop seeks to understand urbanization and planning in terms of the cultural, historical, political, geographical, and socio-economical context in which it is situated. As part of the engaged learning process, students are asked to reflect critically on the perspective that they bring to the course. The workshop seeks to establish long-term relationships with its Indonesian collaborators and stakeholders and support bi-directional flows of knowledge, learning and information.

  

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