Dear students,
tomorrow 19.3. we will continue the background study presentations. After the break, Katrin will give an introductory lecture on Landscape thinking in urban planning.

As said couple of times, we are still in the analytical phase of scenario process. The steps of the whole process are:

1. Defining the main question / problem
2. Studying broad societal trends that influence the question (socio-cultural, political, economic, environmental, technological + values)
3. Finding key actors that have direct agency for our question
4. Finding uncertainties about 2. and 3. and ranking them
5. Bundling the biggest uncertainties to two axis --> scenario matrix (big task of 9.-10.4.)
6. Fleshing out the scenarios (new groups with POLIS students)
7. Crossing the scenarios (discussion)

We have much material for 2. and 3., even though a little unstructured.
Main question is still a little open, but to us it seems that it revolves around

- looking the topic from suburbs, not from Tallinn, accepting the current reality as a starting point
- "healing" the social and morphological situation, created by rapid suburban process in 2000s
- creating new centralities
- innovating on social form and service provision models, to enhance quality of life
- propose a landscape strategy


See you tomorrow
Panu & Katrin