Fakultät VI Planen Bauen Umwelt - TU Berlin

Fakultät VI Planen Bauen Umwelt
Prüfung und Benotung erfolgen über prüfungsäquivalente Studienleistungen mit
Möglichkeit einer mündlichen Rücksprache nach Ermessen des Dozenten. Form und
Inhalt der Studienleistungen werden zu Beginn der Veranstaltung mit dem Dozenten
vereinbart.
Für Teilnehmer an Schwerpunkt V gelten die Bestimmungen für das Modul MA-SRP 9.
Die aktive Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung wird gefordert.
Die Veranstaltungssprache ist Deutsch, der aktive Umgang mit englischsprachiger
Fachliteratur ist jedoch unbedingt erforderlich.
Im letzten Teil der Veranstaltung sind einzelne Termine mit einem Extrazeitraum von
16.00 bis 20.00 Uhr geplant, in denen Vertiefungsarbeiten der Teilnehmer präsentiert und
diskutiert werden.
Eine ausführliche Beschreibung der Veranstaltung mit Kalender, Literaturangaben und
Leistungsanforderungen wird vor Beginn der Vorlesungszeit auf der Internetseite des
Fachgebiets Planungstheorie zur Verfügung gestellt.
(English)
Three fundamental questions have significantly framed the development of planning
theory in the last decades: the questions of the rationality, of the effectiveness, and of the
legitimacy of planning as a public task in liberal-democratic societies. Planning theorists
have dealt with these questions throughout time from different theoretical and cultural
perspectives, and always in the context of historically determined social and political
relations. The relationship to knowledge – the knowledge of planning, the knowledge
about planning – plays a crucial role in this, either explicitly or implicitly.
Attempts at addressing these questions have led to key contributions to our understanding
of planning altogether, which bear all of their relevance as of today. They form an
important background for an understanding of planning as a societal function. They
constitute an important entry to addressing issues as the role of planning, the nature of
its embeddedness in politics and institutions, and its power and influence in face of social
articulation and political power relations.
The course analyses the most important contributions to critical reflection in planning
theory in the last decades and devotes particular attention to planning theory’s
understanding of the knowledge relevant for planning, of the role of knowledge in society
in general and in planning processes in particular, and of the relationship between
planning, on the one hand, and scientific and expert knowledge, on the other hand.
The course consists of:
- lectures devoted to introducing the themes of the course, possibly including thematic
guest-lectures;
- colloquia, during which selected themes of the course are jointly discussed on the
basis of the literature;
- students’ assignments and presentations.
Assessment and grading are based on exam-equivalent study achievements with the
possibility of consultation under discretion of the teacher. Form and content thereof are
defined in agreement with the teacher at the beginning of the course.
For participants in Area of Specialisation V, the rules of Module MA-SRP 9 apply.
Active participation to course activities is required.
The language of the course is German; the scripts of the lectures as well as most of the
suggested literature, however, are in English.
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