What Does the Future Hold for a Post-Covid AESOP?
| dc.contributor.author | Kunzmann, Klaus R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-29T12:03:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-29T12:03:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | disP - The Planning Review, 57 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Covid-19 has alarmed the world and forced local economies to reorganise production and services, citizens to reorganise their daily lives, work habits and entertainment preferences and universities to organise online education or hybrid forms of teaching. It has also debarred the community of European planning educators from two annual congresses. This seems to have caused some planning educators at AESOP member schools in Europe to reflect on the future of an association that is highly de- pendent on face-to-face communication at its annual congresses. Will everything return to a new normal after the pandemic has been successfully tamed? The following comments raise some questions and present some pathways into the future. 1 AESOP: More Than a European Travel Agency? The annual jamboree of ambitious and curious planners was not able to take place. Planning educators could not travel to another country, present their research results, listen to other planners' findings, compare their planning ex perience with that of others, learn about in- novative approaches to urban development on study tours or mobile workshops, leaf though recently published planning books or forge plans to collaborate with researchers from other planning cultures. They were not forced to explain their planning approach in another language to an international audience. And they could not learn, often more importantly, about the merits or shortcomings of their own planning culture back home, when urged to ex- plain it to a curious neighbour in a planning workshop. Even more joyful pleasures could not be experienced, such as communicating in another language, drinking a cappuccino with a colleague in the university courtyard, practising another European language over lunch, or roaming through an unknown city quarter in a new city and visiting a museum or cathedral guided by the eyes of a colleague from another planning culture. Even face-to-face experiences with a new friend during coffee breaks could not be adventured. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kunzmann, K. R. (2021). What Does the Future Hold for a Post-Covid AESOP? disP - The Planning Review, 57(4), 77–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2021.2060581 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 0.1080/02513625.2021.2060581 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0251-3625 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 77-83 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2021.2060581 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2860 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Routledge : Taylor and Francis Group | |
| dc.rights | restrictedAccess | |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.title | What Does the Future Hold for a Post-Covid AESOP? | |
| dc.type | Article |
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