Giving Birth to AESOP
| dc.contributor.author | Kunzmann, Klaus R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-30T11:18:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-30T11:18:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | AESOP would like to express sincere gratitude to Professor Klaus R. Kunzmann for generously sharing this personal reflection with the AESOP community. By entrusting us with this valuable testimony, he has helped preserve the intellectual and historical legacy of AESOP’s foundation. His vision and commitment continue to inspire generations of planners and scholars across Europe. | |
| dc.description.abstract | “Giving Birth to AESOP” is a personal retrospective written in 2017 by Professor Klaus R. Kunzmann, one of the founding members of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). The text recounts the foundational meeting held in February 1987 at Schloss Cappenberg, where the idea of creating a European network of planning schools took shape. It highlights the key individuals involved, the symbolic choice of location, and the rationale behind the name “AESOP.” The author reflects on the initial ambitions of the group—such as promoting planning as an academic discipline, fostering transnational exchange, and strengthening the identity of planning education in Europe—and provides a critical commentary on the evolution of planning and its institutional status up to 2017. This document offers both historical insight and a personal vision of planning as a discipline rooted in storytelling, critical thinking, and social responsibility. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2861 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | openAccess | |
| dc.rights.license | CC-BY | |
| dc.title | Giving Birth to AESOP | |
| dc.type | Other |