*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco

64 Spatial Planning & Strategy
SPS Teaching &
Learning
REMON ROOIJ
SPS HAS A VERY STRONG PROFILE IN EDUCATION. IN THE
NEXT PAGES, WE PRESENT VARIOUS COURSES, STUDIOS, AND
PROGRAMMES THE SECTION COORDINATES OR CONTRIBUTES TO .
The section has a leading
role in the master’s programme
Urbanism, the
European Post-master in Urbanism
(EMU), and the Planning
and Design with Water summer
school. But SPS is also intensively
involved in the Faculty’s
bachelor, the master elective
programmes, the MSc MADE programme
(AMS), and the development
of several massive open
online courses (MOOCs), such as
Rethink the City (which won the
AESOP Excellence in Teaching
Award in 2017), Urban Design
for the Public Good, and others.
SPS has a strong community of
education developers and researchers
on education innovation,
evaluating, and publishing
on pedagogies for the planning
of fair, sustainable, and inclusive
regions, cities, and communities.
SPS education focuses on planning
theories, methods, and
cultures, evidence-based vision,
and strategy making, resolving
spatial conflicts, and issues of
spatial justice, territorial governance
and decision making,
regional design, and planning.
Given the range of our activities,
SPS is necessarily inter- and
multi-disciplinary. Additionally,
SPS education promotes several
academic skills for urbanists.
Finally, SPS explicitly advocates
and stimulates an international
perspective on questions of urbanisation
and metropolisation,
urban growth and transformation,
sustainability and fairness.
“EMU has a unique international
component, in which students
experience alternative approaches
to urban development. This is
highly valued by the panel. The
panel is impressed by the setup
of the curriculum. EMU refreshes
the academic skills students
have already acquired at the
master’s level, and is focussed
on deepening their knowledge
with an international outlook,
which the panel deems fitting for
a post-master’s programme. The
panel sees a challenging, clear
and coherent programme in the
given courses and in the complementary
setup of its explicitly
international approach.” (QANU,
2018: p.14)
Several staff members of the
section have managerial responsibilities
in the faculty’s education
organisation.
- Course and studio coordination
responsibilities in all programmes
mentioned
- BSc Architecture, Urbanism &
Building Sciences (in Dutch: Bouwkunde)
programme leader
- Chairing the Faculty’s Board of
Studies
- Faculty’s honours programme
committee membership
- MSc Urbanism departmental
portfolio assessment committee
membership
- Chairing the Faculty’s Internationalisation
committee
- Leading the Faculty-wide research
programme on education
innovation