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Excellence in Teaching Prize: Winner of Excellence in Teaching Prize 2007

2008

Winner of Excellence in Teaching Prize 2007 Faculty of Urban and regional planning, IUAV University of Venice A participative process of Urban Regeneration. Building an integrated programme aimed at improving the quality of urban and social life in a consolidated periphery of Venice Contact person: Liliana Padovani The course has been appointed as winner because it fulfils the overall prize criteria to make a critical and constructive contribution of teaching. It will inspire and foster curiosity, rigour, creativity, critical thinking, and the building of lifelong learning. The course examines the social dimension of sustainable development in the way that students investigate a group of se…

Foreword: Award Winning AESOP Teaching Prize 2009

2010

Excellence in Teaching Prize: Winner of Excellence in Teaching Prize 2008

2008

2008 AESOP PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING Bridging the Gap, Building the Bridge: The Mediating Role of Planning Theory and Practice The AESOP-ACSP 2008 conference theme “Bridging the Divide: Celebrating the City” focuses on the mediating role of cities. Many cities are, to some degree, divided or contested: differences (in age, ethnicity, gender, class, religion and culture) are evident in cities at various scales and levels of intensity. From the perspective of a more equitable society, planning is about designing socio-spatial interventions to promote greater social equality. This is the ethical dimension of planning. Can we teach students how to think reflectively about designing socio…

A Narrative of the AESOP Quality Recognition Programme in the Field of Planning Education

2017

The article proposes a reflection about the Coordination of planning curricula, quality assur­ ance and accreditation processes promoved by AESOP, on the principle of cooperation and mutual bene ts. On the occasion of several debates at the Heads of Schools meetings, it became clear that, in addition to the existing framework of the AESOP Core Curriculum, a further active implication was needed in order to enhance, improve and support planning curricula and programmes, especially in a time of crisis. Infact, coordination of planning courses and their quality recognition had (and still have) to be considered in a cooperative approach, rather than in a competitive one: an ap­ proach to be bas…