Many contend that end-state planning is no longer either acceptable or feasible. However, outside the formal planning system, communities do conceive radical proposals for the places they live in. Our paper makes a plea for a renewed appreciation of Utopias by revealing the diversity of such imagined futures of a place. By means of a review of the nature of 12 locally emerging Utopias in the Netherlands, combined with a literature review, we propose to use spectra to characterise imagined futures, bringing nuance to the debate and a re-appreciation of the transformative power of Utopian stories about futures of places.
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To prevent the social worker being jammed between the economic and rationalized logic of managers and politicians on the one hand, and the life world of the people on the other, he needs to develop a healthy identity. The social constructive view can help to overcome the identity crisis the social professional is in. It offers a model to analyze the conflict a social professional has to deal with, and forces the social worker to make a clear and moral choice for the life world of his clients. This view seems also suitable to develop an indigenous body of practice theory for social work. The presence theory, the family group work and constructive social work demonstrates the possibilities. To regain confidence from both the people and the politicians, the rationalized system of planning and control has to be replaced by the trust model. To develop this model we have to find ways to justify the money used in this sector.
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Conferentieboek van de Vlaams-Nederlandse PlanDag, georganiseerd op woensdag 21 en donderdafg 22 mei 2025.
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Cities worldwide are growing at unprecedented rates, compromising their surrounding landscapes, and consuming many scarce resources. As a consequence, this will increase the compactness of cities and will also decrease the availability of urban green space. In recent years, many Dutch municipalities have cut back on municipal green space and itsmaintenance. To offer a liveable environment in 30 to 50 years, cities must face challenges head-on and strive to create green urban areas that build on liveable and coherent sustainable circular subsystems.
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The presentation covers recent and current procurement management team research activities at Hanze university, notably SME procurement, sustainable procurement, and innovation procurement.
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Book review of J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp. First published on: https://vbds.nl/2025/11/01/more-and-more-and-more/. A Dutch version of this review has been added. This translation is also published on: https://vbds.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Meer-en-Meer-en-Meer.pdf.
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The promotor was Prof. Erik Jan Hultink and copromotors Dr Ellis van den Hende en Dr R. van der Lugt. The title of this dissertation is Armchair travelling the innovation journey. ‘Armchair travelling’ is an expression for travelling to another place, in the comfort of one’s own place. ‘The innovation journey’ is the metaphor Van de Ven and colleagues (1999) have used for travelling the uncharted river of innovation, the highly unpredictable and uncontrollable process of innovation. This research study began with a brief remark from an innovation project leader who sighed after a long and rough journey: ‘had I known this ahead of time…’. From wondering ‘what could he have known ahead of time?’ the immediate question arose: how do such innovation journeys develop? How do other innovation project leaders lead the innovation journey? And could I find examples of studies about these experiences from an innovation project leader’s perspective that could have helped the sighing innovation project leader to have known at least some of the challenges ahead of time? This dissertation is the result of that quest, as we do know relatively little how this process of the innovation project leader unfolds over time. The aim of this study is to increase our understanding of how innovation project leaders lead their innovation journeys over time, and to capture those experiences that could be a source for others to learn from and to be better prepared. This research project takes a process approach. Such an approach is different from a variance study. Process thinking takes into account how and why things – people, organizations, strategies, environments – change, act and evolve over time, expressed by Andrew Pettigrew (1992, p.10) as catching “reality in flight”.
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Ons vakgebied bevindt zich in een storm die om stilte vraagt. Doen we nog wel de juiste dingen en doen we de dingen nog juist in onze fysieke leefomgeving? Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat we ondanks de dagelijkse snel, sneller, snelst dynamiek alle belanghebbenden betrekken en oog blijven houden voor trage fysische processen die we nodig hebben om snelle bouwprocessen te verankeren? Hoe kunnen we opnieuw rustmomenten inbouwen in planprocessen? En welke methoden en instrumenten hebben we hiervoor tot onze beschikking?Met het thema Storm en stilte biedt PlanDag 2024 een moment van rust voor een stormachtige dialoog over de huidige ontwikkelingen in de maatschappij en ons vakgebied. In samenwerking met de Belgische gemeente Zwijndrecht verkennen we het spanningsveld tussen hoog- en laagdynamische aspecten van de fysieke omgeving, planningsprocessen en de samenwerking met stakeholders herontdekken. We gaan op zoek naar manieren waarop we de groeiende turbulente dynamiek moeten en kunnen blijven verbinden met trage bewegingen.
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Jonas Staal: In de kern beschouw ik het kunstenaarschap in termen van ‘visuele geletterdheid’: het is een engagement met als kern het vraagstuk van representatie. Hoe wij de wereld vertegenwoordigen, verbeelden, is een inherent politieke daad, want het is door die verbeelding dat wij ons capabel zien en de moed vinden om tot nieuwe vormen van handelen te komen. Artistieke verbeelding en politieke actie vormen in die zin elkaars voorwaarden. Aangepaste versie van het artikel ‘Een wereld maken’ dat verscheen in Metropolis M, nr.1 (2015).
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