Imagining energy potential: a critical reflection on spatial scenarios in a participatory planning process

Clemens Bernardt, Alex van Spijk, Sandra van Assen

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    Significant factors in the succes or failure of energy transition arise from the spatial potential of places and their communities. Scenario planning appears to be an appropriate design instrument to enable architects to unveil, conceptualise, imagine, test and communicate this potential to stakeholders. This paper critically reflects on the scenario as an architectural design instrument. Inscribed with political intentions, scenario planning may be a far from neutral design instrument. In stead of triggering communities to explore local energy potential, a scenario may have a normative effect on a community's imagination. The paper aims to define guidelines for the deployment of scenarios in an open, participatory planning process. To mediate in a local participatory planning process, we argue, scenarios should be situational, dynamic and open-ended, allowing or even triggering communities to (re)define the issues relevant to a place during the ongoing process of energy-transition. How, when and where should scenario planning be deployed in order to enable communities to understand and develop their local energy potential?
    Originele taal-2English
    Aantal pagina's8
    StatusPublished - 2016
    EvenementDynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand (DEMAND) Conference 2016: what energy is for - the making and dynamics of demand - DEMAND Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom
    Duur: 13 apr. 201615 apr. 2016
    http://www.demand.ac.uk/events/event/demand-2016-conference/

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    ConferenceDynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand (DEMAND) Conference 2016
    Verkorte titelDEMAND 2016
    Land/RegioUnited Kingdom
    StadLancaster
    Periode13/04/1615/04/16
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    Keywords

    • local energy transition; spatial scenario study; participatory planning process

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