The joint 5th WPSC congress and 16th APSA congress in 2022, used these ideas as backdrop for critically examining the effect of disruptive innovation and inclusion in planning and design. At the same time, the congress also considered topics related to globalization and the way it stimulates creative disruption and inclusion in planning and design. We encouraged ideas that consider disruptive innovation and inclusion as other forms of machine capable to co-opt various actors and institutions in disseminating certain social, economic and cultural values, planning and design as a form of resistance against the commodification process diffused across space and social groups and is systematically embedded in the structural power relations of innovation politics, and historical assessment of space and built environment as a form of disruptive innovation.