Edyta BAKOWSKA-WALDMANN, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
Decisions are integral elements of territorial governance, which refers also to spatial planning. However, the decision-making model in numerous national spatial planning systems, including the Polish one, significantly limits citizens’ impact on the process. This is largely due to their late involvement in the design process, which is limited to reaction to the decisions already taken. On the other hand, numerous studies show that the involvement of residents’ knowledge at the early stages of decision-making processe (a diagnostic phase and an early design phase) contributes to a greater public acceptance of decisions, reduction of conflicts, and a better understanding of the design conditions and outcomes (Kahila-Tani et. al 2019, B?kowska-Waldmann 2021, Jankowski et. al 2021). Therefore, space users, i.e., residents, can contribute with their experiences and knowledge about the local space to the creation of planning materials in the form of soft data (referring to the SoftGIS concept, see: Kahila & Kyttä 2009) related to the non-material characteristics of a given space, such as safety or esthetics. The need for and importance of involving residents at all stages of the planning process is emphasized not only by implementing the principles of democracy but also by increasing the decision-makers' knowledge about the space under the development, relevant at the beginning of the process. Studies by B?kowska-Waldmann and Kaczmarek (2021) show that public consultations carried out at the initial phases of the planning processes using public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) provide designers with new and useful knowledge. The aim of the presentation is to systematize the current state of knowledge on the importance of various levels and sources of knowledge in the spatial planning processes and to present the preliminary results of a pilot study devoted to the role of residents’ local knowledge in spatial planning processes, conducted in Pozna?.
Mots clés : spatial planning|public participation|knowledge|participatory governance|PPGIS
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