Not only Genius but Indi-Genous: Integrating indigenous knowledge and sustainable spatial planning
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2024-08-30
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Climate change and its impact on cities is increasingly visible, making the role of planners crucial to exploring and implementing eco-sustainable alternatives. Despite the slow progression towards environmentally oriented solutions and given the existing systems, our current planning regimes overlook several aspects of environmental impact and economic fallouts of any public or private project. This is particularly the case in implementing circularity, degrowth or any “green growth” oriented policy or design as they are mostly derived from a western perspective often overlooking the prospect of contextually rooted solutions when attempting implementation in non-western contexts. Thus, spatial planning needs to create room for holistic and inclusive approaches that expand future envisioning and city developments. However, this requires radical unlearning of existing beliefs and for planners to challenge the limits of decolonial project envisioning as well as the position of the profession in a post-colonial Global South. In connection indigenous knowledge systems often provide insights into circular sustainable living and environmental stewardship developed through centuries of interconnectedness with the local environment. These systems emphasise and advocate for balanced living that planners can learn from. The integration of indigenous knowledge into spatial planning could lead to more resilient and adaptable solutions.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen