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Mobilising Situated Local Knowledge for Participatory Urban Planning Through Storytelling

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  • Hanna Seydel

    (Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund, Germany)

  • Sandra Huning

    (Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund, Germany)

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Participatory urban planning does not take place outside of social systems of privilege and discrimination; likewise, the negotiation of knowledge claims in planning processes is embedded in social relations defined by “gender,” “race,” and “class.” In this article, we argue that positionalities play out in the social construction of knowledge in participatory planning and that, consequently, a certain type of knowledge—typically represented by well-educated and resourceful residential groups—is privileged over other forms of everyday knowledge. We present storytelling as an inclusive approach to co-producing knowledge and reflecting on the extent to which the findings can be applied to participatory urban planning. This article is based on a three-year inter- and transdisciplinary research project based on real-world laboratories in two German neighbourhoods. Regarding feminist geographies, we first explore the role of power, positionality, and situated knowledge in shaping participatory planning, both theoretically and empirically. We outline the extent to which the methodological framework and the socio-spatial setting have an impact on the co-production of knowledge. We present insights from two storytelling interventions and reflect on the possibilities and limits of narrative knowledge production for participatory urban planning.

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  • Hanna Seydel & Sandra Huning, 2022. "Mobilising Situated Local Knowledge for Participatory Urban Planning Through Storytelling," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 242-253.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:urbpla:v:7:y:2022:i:3:p:242-253
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    1. Simin Davoudi, 2012. "The Legacy of Positivism and the Emergence of Interpretive Tradition in Spatial Planning," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(4), pages 429-441, July.
    2. Rosa Nooijer & Lillian Sol Cueva, 2022. "Feminist Storytellers Imagining New Stories to Tell," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Wendy Harcourt & Karijn van den Berg & Constance Dupuis & Jacqueline Gaybor (ed.), Feminist Methodologies, chapter 0, pages 237-255, Palgrave Macmillan.
    3. Sandra Huning & Christiane Droste & Katrin Gliemann, 2021. "Promoting Interculture in Participation in German Urban Planning: Fields of Action for Institutional Change," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(2), pages 127-138.
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    1. Anna Juliane Heinrich & Angela Million & Karsten Zimmermann, 2022. "Spatial Knowledge and Urban Planning," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 185-190.

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