All rights reservedAndreas, Verena2024-04-082024-04-082016978-83-7493-948-5https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1537City on water : 6th AESOP European Urban Summer School 2015, BremenThis chapter gives an introduction to the planning and working phase of the EUSS summer school. The central approaches of the concept development are introduced and the group work reflected. Therefore it is important not to think only about the how and what of the process but also about the why and what for. Besides the positive learning effects of the participants through the challenge of designing a project in a new and unfamiliar context there are also virtues for the targeted city which could lie in the new and independent thinking outside of the local culture of planning.enopenAccessconferenceObject51-52