Chang-Ho Yim, President of APSA, and Geraldo Costa of ANPUR, sign the Shanghai Statement at the closing ceremony of the World Planning Schools Congress, 15 July 2001.
Planning association executives at their meeting on the campus of Tongji University in Shanghai during the first World Planning Schools Congress, July 2001.
5th WPSC 2022 in Bali, the Presidents of Planning Schools Associations member of GPEAN introduce their association and vision about the GPEAN and planning schools in the future.
GPEAN meets at the Second World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City July 2006
Participants of 1st World Planning Schools Congress in Shanghai 2001
Participants of 1st WPSC 2001 in Shanghai.
Presidents of planning schools associations at 5th WPSC 2022 in Bali, Indonesia
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.