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| Title | The power of visions and imagined futures in spatial planning and design |
| Group | Cultural Geography Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 (MSc) |
| Supervisor(s) | Martijn Duineveld (GEO) & Iulian Baba Lata (LUP) |
| Examiner(s) | Prof. dr Edward Huijbens |
| Contact info | GEO thesis contact person Chih-Chen Trista Lin: chihchentrista.lin@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/01/01 |
| End date | 2022/12/31 |
| Description | Recently landscape architects from Wageningen University published a vision for the Netherlands in 2120. It received national and international attention and sparked debates about how to live more sustainably and including nature. In this thesis project you study the roles long-term visions, like these, play and could play in society. You will study how collective visions, visualisations and expectations for the long-term function as productive fictions: although they can never predict the future, they can sort all kinds of reality effects on the present. They can co-shape a desirable, undesirable, utopian or dystopian future, they can be used to persuade certain groups to think differently or help to implement or legitimise certain policies. Also, they can depoliticise governance, help us to rethink taken for granted problems or to include, exclude communities and so on. To get a better understanding in how visions and imagined futures can be useful and effective in spatial planning and landscape architecture you will study the roles of visions and visualisations of the future in shaping the present. Case studies can be chosen on the local, reginal, national or global scale. |
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