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Planning for 1000 Years: The Råängen Experiment

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  • Peter Pelzer

    (Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning/Urban Futures Studio, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

  • Roger Hildingsson

    (Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden)

  • Alice Herrström

    (Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden)

  • Johannes Stripple

    (Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden)

Abstract

While traditional forms of urban planning are oriented towards the future, the recent turn towards experimental and challenge-led urban developments is characterized by an overarching presentism. We explore in this article how an experimental approach to urban planning can consider the long-term through setting-up ‘conversations with a future situation.’ In doing so, we draw on a unique experiment: Råängen, a piece of farmland in Lund (Sweden) owned by the Cathedral. The plot is part of Brunnshög, a large urban development program envisioned to accommodate homes, workspaces, and world-class research centers in the coming decades. We trace how Lund Cathedral became an unusual developer involved in ‘planning for thousand years,’ deployed a set of art commissions to allow reflections about values, belief, time, faith, and became committed to play a central role in the development process. The art interventions staged conversations with involved actors as well as publics geographically and temporally far away. The Råängen case illustrates how long-term futures can be fruitfully brought to the present through multiple means of imagination. A key insight for urban planning is how techniques of financial discounting and municipal zoning plans could be complemented with trust in reflective conversations in which questions are prioritized over answers.

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  • Peter Pelzer & Roger Hildingsson & Alice Herrström & Johannes Stripple, 2021. "Planning for 1000 Years: The Råängen Experiment," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(1), pages 249-262.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v:6:y:2021:i:1:p:249-262
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