This special session is designed to explore the future of planning profession with the involvement of the youngest generation. Since 1991, ISOCARP offers various platforms to engage young planning professionals in activating knowledge for better cities. Among these platforms are Young Planning Professionals' Workshops, Intensive Training Programmes, Mentoring, Publications and Awards. After a brief introduction, the results and examples of those programmes will be shared with the audience including the results of the ISOCARP Young Planning Professionals' Workshop in Ningbo, China, organised in collaboration with the UNICEF, the Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC), and undertaken by Ningbo Bureau of Nature Resources and Planning (NBNRP), and the Ningbo Urban Planning & Design Institute (NBPI). This years' winners of the Student Awards will present their awarded researches. The session will be concluded with a discussion with the audience and participants about how ISOCARP can serve better the new generation, and about the future of planning through the fresh eyes of the young.

Programme

Moderators: Zeynep Gunay and Slawomir Ledwon, ISOCARP

09:30 | Introduction

09:40 | YPP Ningbo 2019

10:10 | Discussion

Presentations:

10.20 | The invisible citizens – Addressing the homeless migrants: case of North Delhi

• Meenakshi Nair

10.27 | Agriculture co-habitation: A Way Forward To Sustainable And Productive Future of Delhi, India

• Sayali Virulkar, Architect and Urban Designer, School of Planning and Architecture 

10.34 | Socio-ecological systems of urban lakes, Bangalore: case of Jakkur Lake precinct Bangalore

• Manasa Garikaparthi, Project Associate, School of Planning and Architecture

10.41 | Discussion