Webinar: Combining “science” and “art” in planning (?)

This event will be a debate on the extent to which academic work (labelled as “scientific”) should engage more in artistic methodologies, artistic output, artistic engagement of audiences or artistic philosophies, and other alternative approaches, and do these relate to the idea of “scientism”. An important underlying assumption is that artistic methods might be more creative and therefore incentivise change - however, this is an untested hypothesis as far as we are aware. We will discuss how art can be used as a process for engaging diverse publics in planning, what art even means in such a context, what its role for inducing 'change' is, and how far-reaching the role of art in planning can and should be.