Planning of undefined becoming: from poststructuralism towards actor-relational opportunities

From the 1980s onwards, and due to the ongoing complexity and diffuseness in global networked societies, planners have tried to move beyond classic technocratic and/or sociocratic ideas on planning towards new approaches, dealing with the multiplicities and fuzziness of time and space. Innovative ideas have been developed with regard to discursive, collaborative, informal and post-policy planning, as well as with relational geography, multi-planar, non-linear and actor-relational approaches, and other positions. Nonetheless techno- and sociocratic approaches remain dominant conceptions in much practice and teaching in Europe and elsewhere. This could very well be due to the fact that these innovative contributions of the past two or three decennia have been fragmented and isolated. However these contributions could also be regarded as a bigger transition towards what we call a movement of 'planning of undefined becoming'. Therefore in this paper we will sketch a frame from which these innovative ideas on space and time are in some way interrelated to each other too. From these backgrounds we will also critically reflect on some planning experiments in practice, which have been inspired by these ideas, reciprocally and incrementally, developing practitioners work along the way. Referring to these reflections, we will conclude with some recommendations for further co-evolutionary research in congruence with upcoming planning practices of becoming.

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