Abstract
How do we (re-)imagine planning in a world increasingly marked by socio-ecological changes and disruptions? As a field of knowledge, policy, and practice that continues to regard time as absolute, linear, and tameable, planning has yet to engage with contemporary social science debates conceiving time as not only relative, diverse, and variegated but also transcending culture–nature dualities. Drawing on ‘critical horology’ and ‘ecocritical time studies’, this chapter engages with nascent scholarship on time and temporalities in and of planning. Focusing on ‘coordinations’ and ‘timings’, it explores how socio-ecological interactions unfold in and shape regional planning deliberations, rendering temporal mismatches and adjustments—human and more-than-human—visible. On this basis, the chapter assesses the degree of leverage of critical time approaches to theorising planning and reflects on the prospective role of planning and planners in a world ‘out-of-sync’. In conclusion, the chapter calls for greater engagement with developing ‘temporal’ tools and methods to enable planners to become aware of—and critically cater to—socio-ecological mismatches in regional planning deliberations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2023 RSA Annual Conference : Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places |
| Publication date | 2023 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| Event | 2023 RSA Annual Conference: Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places - Ljubljana, Slovenia Duration: 14 Jun 2023 → 17 Jun 2023 https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Index/15388 |
Conference
| Conference | 2023 RSA Annual Conference |
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| Country/Territory | Slovenia |
| City | Ljubljana |
| Period | 14/06/2023 → 17/06/2023 |
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