Asisstant Professor Sustainable Transformation & Regional Planning, University of Groningen @frw_rug | Personal account, all views are my own

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Last week of #CityMatters26 Urban Inequality & Social Justice has started in Groningen. Lecture tomorrow, squatting role-play Wednesday. Then: thoughtful student work awaits completion 💡🍀. Groups research justice all around Groningen, and induvidual projects building upon it.
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To boldly plan... NEW: 'Navigating Post-Growth Planning: Leveraging complexity for being intentional and unintentional'. Complexity, post-growth, Luhmann, roles in planning. In Transaction of AESOP. doi.org/10.24306/TrAESOP.202… #postgrowthplanning #systemstheory #rolesinplanning
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🧭Urban Complex Futures: Critical Leverage Points. 💻Online series within AESOP Planning and Complexity on 21/10, 11/11, 02/12. Complex systems, sustainability, uncertainty, housing, futures, time/less planning, temporary use.🖌️Info: aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/pl… #complexity
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Student work ahead! Eight groups start working on their empirical research projects in Groningen in 'City Matters: Urban Inequality and Social Justice' (Master Society, Sustainability & Planning). 🫶 If you see them, support them. #CityMatters26 #socialjustice
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📆This month in Groningen & online: Where is Urban Politics Seminars. 1️⃣ Utopian Ideals & Concrete Utopias (15th) 2️⃣ Public space and the city. Why democrats should worry about urban public space. (30th) 🤓 Be there with us, sites.google.com/rug.nl/wher… @FRW_RUG AESOP & others.
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Christian Lamker 🇪🇺 retweeted
If not now, when...? 🌱 Becoming a post-growth planner. 📻 34 episodes, 37 key thinkers. Pondering on obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices in spatial planning & beyond. 💚 youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… & podcast apps. #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #podcast
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Christian Lamker 🇪🇺 retweeted
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Published my last podcast interview this spring with Julia Grosinger (ICTA-UAB) in #34. Moving into rural areas, human needs, loved places, participatory methods. Always learning, loving this open format. youtube.com/watch?v=O6XF3ot8… (also Spotify, Apple, website) #postgrowthplanning
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🛣️Infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations (in #postgrowthplanning) seriously? Matthias Kranke (Duisburg-Essen) & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (Groningen) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner' #33. 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/7gc… (also on YouTube & others) #podcast
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🏡From systems thinking in housing to the manifesto for housing in a post-growth world. Running through #postgrowthplanning with @annapagani.bsky.social in podcast episode #32 - 'a collective activity of mutual learning, informed by a systems approach' 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/1N1…
🌱 "We cannot think of any future if we do not think about housing". Anna Pagani (King's College London) in #32 of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. Systems thinking, housing justice & manifesto as call to action and commitment. ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=8YhQPlzX… #postgrowthplanning
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🌎 Extending the scope of 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner'. ❓How we change that big paradigm of architecture: building is growing, growing is welfare, and it's also progress and happiness. 🎯 open.spotify.com/episode/0PE… (also on other platforms) #postgrowthplanning #podcast
🏖️🏙️"It's completely possible" Doing, undoing, redoing in architecture and #postgrowthplanning. Alejandro del Castillo Sánchez (n'UNDO) in 'Becoming a Post-Growth Planner', #31. Exploring scope & edges of (growth-based) architecture ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=tGkI29wm… & Spotify & website.
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⁉️ "Citizens in urban futures, shaping post-growth planning together?" Invitation to join the talk and discusion in Vancouver (Canada) at Simon Fraser University on Fri 8 May. #postgrowthplanning #rolesinplanning
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🌱It's growing! Three years & 11,600 views since "The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth" in Planning Theory&Practice (with Dan Durrant, Yvonne Rydin) 🛋️ doi.org/10.1080/14649357.202… #postgrowthplanning @postgrowthplan
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Christian Lamker 🇪🇺 retweeted
📌We have a PhD position in our department at the intersection of AI / climate-responsive cities / youth inclusion. 🔝Great supervision team. 4 years of funding. 🗓️Apply by 30 April. werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ph…
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Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.
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"Peace must be made real and tangible in the daily existence of every individual in need. Peace must be sought, above all, because it is the condition for every member of the human family to live a life of dignity and security." - Kofi Annan in his #NobelPeacePrize lecture
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Pope Leo XIV appeals for peace in the Middle East and recalls that attacks against civilian infrastructure are against international law. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
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🧭 Call for Papers: Complexity Unpacked: Analytical Tools & Practical Insights for Uncertain Futures. 🗓️ 8-9 Jan 2027, University of Nicosia (Cyprus). 24th Conference of the AESOP TG on Planning and Complexity. ⏰15 June 2026. See aesop-planning.eu/tg-news/pl… #AESOP #Complexity
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🖌️New episode of 'Becoming a post-growth planner' with @SofiaGreaves1 . Looking back to what happened since our talk in 2023 (episode 13). And to what comes next in Oslo. "Spatial planning is in many ways generating problems for itself to solve, right?"📻 open.spotify.com/episode/6iR…
🎨"Post-Growth Planning is in need of creative methods for collectively imagining new futures". @SofiaGreaves1 on arts-based methods, housing, community - and: stories, experiences, emotions, in environmental engineering? ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=5W7NYk5-… #postgrowthplanning #podcast
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