ShareAfter completing this study track the candidate should have:
Knowledge and understanding
- Describe and relate to the global vision of sustainable development
- Identify its meaning and complex interplay with local urban circumstances and processes of urban transitions
- Review and explain approaches, tools and techniques for understanding and addressing local conditions
- Understand different professional roles for mediation between local and global challenges in sustainable urban transitions
Competence and skills
- Be able to use different analytical approaches, tools and techniques in different local areas and adapt them to distinct social, cultural, political and physical local contexts
- Be able to plan and/or design strategies and solutions for sustainable urban transitions
- Be able to visualize and communicate different proposals for stakeholders, clients and experts in different stages of the planning and design process
- Be able to motivate different proposals with reference to scientific and experience-based, knowledge
Judgement, synthesis and reflection
- To critically compare and assess the quality of different knowledge sources and statements concerning sustainable urban transitions and be able to combine and apply these to complex local conditions
- Be able to combine different approaches to planning and design (such as scientific, experience-based and artistic)
- Be able to assess strategies and solutions for sustainable urban transitions anchored in value-based arguments
- Reflect on the role of planning and design in the mediation between local and global challenges when applied in different contexts
- To embrace critical thinking and reflection on the professional role, the professional ethics and the need for life-long learning in a world of uncertainties and emerging challenges
- To understand their own, individual perspective and its limitations, through engagement and dialogue with other professional and cultural perspectives on sustainable urban development