You can download the speakers' presentations below:

• Prof. em. Dr Dietrich Fürst, University of Hanover: Regional Governance and Participation - Strategies in the Transformation Process?
  

• Dr Claudia Ritzi, Helmut Schmidt, University of Hamburg: Goals and potentials of participatory planning

• Arndt Feldmann, Amprion GmbH: The route finding process (TFP) in Bissendorf

• Renate Gayk, District of Oldenburg: Regional Spatial Planning Programme (RROP) District of Oldenburg

• Anne Mechels, Planersocietät Dortmund: Bremen Bewegen - Participation in the VEP Bremen

• Angela Weiskopf, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: New Hulsberg neighbourhood - participation as a planning strategy

• Axel Müller, City of Oldenburg: Oldenburg Air Base

This year's conference of the Center for Sustainable Spatial Development Oldenburg (ZENARiO) is dedicated to the question of the forms and intensities in which participation models are applied in various planning processes in northwest Germany. The background is formed by the changing framework conditions in the context of the ongoing transformation process of society. An expression of this transformation process and the relationship between the state and citizens are the intensifying conflicts over the use of space in connection with major planning projects (e.g. Stuttgart 21, Tempelhofer Feld, power lines, deepening of the Weser and Elbe rivers). This is where the limits of the applied state control instruments become apparent. More participation is therefore seen as the key to a successful planning strategy in order to shape the "great transformation".

• Event date: 26 November 2015
• Time: 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
• Venue: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Lehmkuhlenbusch 4, 27753 Delmenhorst
• Costs: €30.00; students pay €20
• Number of participants: limited
• Registration: still open
• Contact for registration: Renate Kettmann and Lina Gerdes

• Contact: Peter Schaal ZENARiO, CvO Oldenburg