After successful completion of the course, students are able to..

• capture a spectrum of activities and successful planning by spatial planning graduates and to prepare them for publication as accessible contributions for a wider audience (blog, print, e.g. magazine, atlas)
• tell and pass on success stories of spatial planning in text and plans
• recognise which opportunities and new fields of action arise through spatial planning in cities, communities and regions
• assess how the scope of action of cities, municipalities and regions and their inhabitants and companies can be expanded or sustainably secured by spatial planning
• capture and present sustainable positive effects of spatial planning / spatial planning work on different spatial types, in particular for the attractiveness of rural areas as well as for urban and metropolitan regions

The occasion for this course is the anniversary year 2020: 50 years of spatial planning studies at TU Wien. We investigate what the spatial planning graduates could change in this time. What success has spatial planning achieved in the sense of spatial public welfare provision? Where / why do people live better than without spatial planning? Where / why are companies more successful than without spatial planning frameworks? Where has spatial planning contributed to the awareness of a responsible handling of our living space? Which destructions and dangers have been averted, which spatial qualities have been saved or revived? Where can you look at good spatial planning? Who can tell about it? Where is good spatial planning on its way to implementation? What future-oriented ideas of spatial planners still await implementation? The results of the research, summarised in texts and visuals, in particular temporal and spatial mappings (maps, networks, timelines, synchronopses, ...) will be brought together as a blog/print of "good spatial planning" (working title) and will be presented in the anniversary year.

• Input: Storytelling, writing workshop
• Input: map and plan – unusual mappings / atlases – digital / analog, desk research and reflection
• Formation of editorial team, assumption of editorial tasks
• On-site research, interviews with spatial planners and their planning partners  – citizens (groups)  – politics, companies, organisations, media ...
  Independent writing of spatial planning success stories (text and / or plans)
• Working method: Group or individual work, plenum (editorial meetings)

1) Editorial team (40 %)

Active participation, reflection on inputs, sharing of own experiences and competences, organisation based on division of labour (text, editing, image, layout, overview ...), overall presentation – overview, interlinking

2) Success stories (3 x 20%)

Writing of three success stories (incl. textual and plan-graphic preparation) based on three different starting points:

• Person: Success story of a spatial planner
• Location: spatial planning becomes visible / perceptible
• Topics: success of spatial planning, e.g. in the areas of mobility, social space, landscape, town centre, economic area, natural hazards, urban development, townscape ...