Planning the unforeseen: evolving through a rhizomatic process. Evidences from Brazilian planning experience
| dc.contributor.author | Ricoy Torres, Nilton | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-23T11:33:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-23T11:33:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper develops a cartography of planning by focusing on the contemporary experience of planning in Brazil. It understands planning as a multiple, relational and mixed social process for dealing with the contingencies of a dynamic and complex world. In this view, planning is not limited to the institutionalized activity of formal planners, but it also includes the action of informal networks of agents seeking to promote their own social life. Based on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari (1995, 2010), this paper understands planning as a ‘rhizomatic’ network of connections that evolves in several directions through the action of different actors, working along (lines of flight) in order to deconstruct (to deterritorialize) old social codes and re-territorialize them as a more democratic, inclusive and just society. This (rhizomatic) kind of planning proceeds through a haphazard process of growth with no hierarchical structure, no central command or control. The paper suggests that in the Brazilian case, emerging experiments with planning as a creative, interactive and fluid process may prove essential for keeping both, the process of social transformation and the ways by which planning is actualized and turned into a democratic, participative and collaborative assemblage. The paper takes as empirical case several formal and informal planning experiences carried out by many agents, acting either inside or outside institutional boundaries. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | **-** | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2496 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Planning the unforeseen: evolving through a rhizomatic process. Evidences from Brazilian planning experience | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |