Management and SP

Code:

MSIGOT039

Acronym:

POT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Geography

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geography
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Planning

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MSIGOT	26	MSIGOT - Study Plan	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Português

Objectives

1. Be able to identify territorial problems, seen in their spatial dimension and in function of their complexity.
2. Reflect the heavy trends and crucial uncertainties and challenges of the future,
3. Mastering prospective methodologies and tools.
4. Mastering methodologies and tools for strategic and agile planning.
5. Acquire and develop analytical, action and communication skills.
6. Prepare collaborative intervention processes in the urban space.
7. Develop more reflective, critical and interventionist attitudes.

Learning outcomes and competences

The disciplinary objectives aim to establish the link between planning and urban management. The contents are oriented to identify the main problems with which planning and urban and territorial management is confronted, namely the need to articulate scales and intervention sectors, and different interests and intervention capacities.
It begins with an overview of planning, allowing to analyze the evolution of fundamental concepts and reference schools.
The ability to reflect on trends and uncertainties reflects the risks and the need to find answers to the territorial challenges (now and in the future).
Some methodologies and tools of collaborative planning and strategic perspectives are applied, identifying key variables, integrating the different perspectives of the actors, and evaluating the various options and strategies.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I. NEW CHALLENGES FOR URBAN PLANNING:
Planning: a process of change
Build multi-scalar and multi-temporal approaches

II. LABORATORY OF LOCAL PROBLEMS AND GLOBAL RISKS
From simple and complicated problems to complex and chaotic problems.
Collective systematization of local problems
Global Risks
Collective systematization of Global Risks

III. PARTICIPATION LABORATORY
Facilitators: Self-assessment questionnaires
Participation processes
Facilitation and mediation: exercises

IV. PROSPECTIVE LABORATORY
Factors and Great Challenges for the Future
Interactive Simulation around a Scenario Thinking Project.
Interactive Simulation around a 3 Horizons Project

V. PLANNING AND AGILE ACTION LABORATORY
Spatial planning and management projects
Interactive Simulation around a Strategic Planning Project
Interactive Simulation around a Strategic and Agile Planning Project

VI. EVALUATION AND MONITORING LABORATORY
Evaluation and monitoring of projects, plans or territorial public policies.

VII. TRANSFORMING AGENDA
Innovate in spatial projects and envisage transformative approaches

Mandatory literature

ALVARENGA, A., CARVALHO, P.;; A Escola Francesa de Prospetiva no Contexto dos Futures Studies, , DPP (MAOTDR), Lisboa, , 2007
COLANTONIO, A.; BURDETT, R.; RODE, P.; Transforming Urban Economies, , Routledge, , 2014
FERRÃO, J. ;; O ordenamento do território como política pública, , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, , 2011

Teaching methods and learning activities

Classes will proceed in groups based on active methodologies:
a) Group assignment to consider the national and international experiences. Students will previously select a city and perform their research around that subject focusing on international experiences.
b) b) Cycle of debates in format of workshop. The organization is developed with the students, with the support of the teachers (the themes, the specialists to be invited and the calendar).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Exame	30,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	64,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho de investigação	57,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attend 75% of classes

Calculation formula of final grade

- Test - 50%
- Individual partipation and Group work - 50%

Internship work/project

As the evaluation standards of the Faculty. All assessment components may be subject to improvement, except for class participation.

Observations

By proposal of the students, unanimously approved, the weights of the evaluation components were changed, which are now as follows:
- test: 40%
- individual participation and group work: 60%