Co-creating Urban Futures: Citizen Participation in Local Governance

All sessions include lectures, groupwork and discussions with students. Time: 1700-1900 CET 18 October: In the first session, the main aims and objectives of the course will be introduced and discussed with the students. 25 October: In the second session, teaching staff from the participating universities will present their perspectives on “global urban challenges”. 8 November: The third session is dedicated to the main concepts of “co-creation”, their normative foundations and role within politics. 15 November: The fourth session aims at establishing the interrelatedness of “power, planning and policy making”. 13 December: This final session offers a review and summarizes the results of the onsite course and considers way to fill the online repository with content. Learn about the challenges and opportunities in advancing democratic urban futures.

Application Deadline

Virtual Part starting date 2023-10-18

Virtual Part closing date 2023-12-13

Total student workload 90

Specific field of studies Urban Studies, Geography, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Design, Architecture, Planning

Pre-requisite for selection CV Level of English (According to CEFR)

Academic pre-requisites for applicants Completed BA in relevant field e.g. politics, sociology, geography, urban studies, urban design, urban planning.

Physical Part starting date 2023-11-20

Physical Part Description On-site Learning in Rome: Teaching staff and students come together in the city of Rome to learn together. The five days of intensive learning experiences focus on the transfer of theoretical approaches to co-creation into more practical exercises, applications, and discussions. The particular empirical focus will be governance in peripheral urban neighbourhoods in Rome. Teaching staff will give teaching input and lead smaller working groups dedicated to deepening the learning experiences. These include: a) drawing lessons from interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and to problematize them in terms of practicability, b) experimenting with existing tools and techniques for organizing participatory problem solving, c) conducting interviews with participants of co-creation projects to gather insight in their experiences and to identify strengths and shortcomings of such collaborative processes, d) meeting stakeholders from governments, administrations and civil society, and learn about their interests, needs, and recommendations for co-creating urban futures, e) participating in excursions to ‘best’ and ‘worst’ practice examples.

Physical Part closing date 2023-11-24

Language level required B2

Field of studies related to the course Social Science and Humanities Environmental Sciences Urbanism and Geography

Course location Rome, Italy

Course language English