Blockseminar Public Partizipation GIS as a Tool for Urban System Planning Processes

Course description: This practice-oriented course is designed to provide students with a tool for geospatial data collection and analysis, which engages residents in the process of planning and enables direct insights in people’s needs for better quality of life in their neighborhood. More precisely, this seminar is an introduction to the usage and impacts of spatial technology on collaborative planning on the neighborhood level. Main objectives of Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) approach are touse and integrate spatial information technology with people’s perception about their living environment as well as to engage stakeholders and enable their influence on decision-making in planning process in order to improve the quality of life in urban areas. Furthermore, the course will introduce students to ZUGABE (ZUkunftschancen GAnzheitlich BEtrachten), a planning tool which is aimed to create an interdisciplinary platform for communication and discourse between different actors on municipal and local level (environmental and urban planners, rainwater and sewage system planners, etc.). In this course ZUGABE can be used for identifying areas of special interest/research area. In a selected research area (Recklinghausen) students will learn how to conduct community mapping with electronic maps in order to obtain data from citizens on their needs and space usage. The aim of this course is to connect data on the specific needs of residents (PPGIS) with planned interventions identified in ZUGABE. This can be seen as an example how to include public participation in planning processes. A short theoretical part of the seminar will include: • introduction to PPGIS and softGIS, • concept of public participation • introduction to ZUGABE Tasks of the practical part are: • to learn about ZUGABE • to conduct softGIS within a group of residents in the identified neighborhood in Recklinghausen • to analyse the needs which were identified from resident’s created softGIS maps • to discuss the opportunities and challenges of combining/linking such data Bemerkung This is a offer for the Master's Programme -Sustainable Urban Technologies-. It will be acceppted in Module 5A, 8A. Venue: Colonia Haus, Zweigertstr. 37, 45130 Essen This course does not take place on February, 17th, 2016 The course starts on 13th January 2016, following dates are: 20th, 27th, 3rd, 10th and 24th February 2016. On – site resident mapping in Recklinghausen will take place on Saturday, 30th January 2016. All students are expected to be present. At the end of the course (24th February 2016) students have to hand in a short final report. Profilschwerpunkt Urbane Systeme Universität Duisburg-Essen WiSe 2015/16 Sustainable Urban Techno., Professorin Moebus Susanne