The Centre for Education in the
Built Environment (CEBE)

Description

Background

Over the past decade, a host of government reports and a government inquiry in 2008 have indicated that there is a shortage of spatial planning skills to deliver sustainable communities and regeneration (e.g. Leitch Review of Skills (2006) Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills. London: HM Treasury; Barker, K (2006) Barker review of land use planning. Norwich: HMSO). Planning schools have started to respond to the need for developing advanced skills in spatial literacy for planning and design.

This one-day workshop is aimed at planning and design educators developing curricula to address this skills deficit in curricula as well as practitioners and students wanting to acquire a better understanding of cutting edge tools. This forthcoming workshop (following on from events 2007, 2009 and 2010) organised by the Centre for Education in the Built Environment, will address the question:

How can urban design and spatial planning be better informed by spatial analysis using GIS and design-oriented network analysis in order to equip spatial planning and design students with competitive and useful skills for shaping places and configuring sustainable cities?

Aim

Participants will have a chance to practically experience analysis tools (space syntax software and others) that have been used in research for several decades. Examples will illustrate how such tools can not only support research but also can provide an evidence base for urban designers, architects and spatial planners in the planning stage, i.e. when planning public spaces, and developments.

Programme

The workshop will

• Review the concept network analysis tools such as space syntax
• Provide examples of use of such tools in urban design/architecture projects
  a. Architecture: SpaceLab (tbc)
  b. Masterplan: Foster and Partners (tbc)
  c. Planning case study: London Wharf, Tower Hamlet (Jamie Ounan)
  
• Offer interactive tutorials
• Provide tips for using software with students and in projects
• Reflect on the different issues when using tools for professional design and planning versus research.
• Initiate a network of university planning and urban design schools and end users using GIS-based analysis tools in planning and design education and practice

Additional workshops are planned to follow in the autumn on visualising complexity of urban data and to deepen the theme of developing skills and tools for design support.

Fee

The participation fee for full time professionals, practitioners and academics is £ 75 (Lunch and refreshments will be provided).

A limited number of free places will be made available for master and doctoral level students enrolled in Architecture, Urban planning and Urban design programmes at UK institutions. Students must apply to Dr. Andrea Frank (FrankA@cardiff.ac.uk) with a single A4 page statement and a CV outlining their interest in the workshop by 21 April 2011.

The registration deadline for paying participants is: 20 May 2011
As spaces are limited –places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.