Gain insights and learn to use appropriate tools to develop spatial strategies, plans, and actions to support the transition toward circularity in your city or region. Play a leading role in bridging disciplinary silos by taking a holistic and systemic approach toward sustainable spatial development.

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This course will provide you with the latest knowledge and insights into proposals and practices in the transition towards a circular economy and help you to produce innovative solutions to the challenges for spatial development.

After finishing this course, you will be able to explain how circularity is related to spatial development in cities and regions. You will gain knowledge of the circular economy in general and the specifics that apply at the regional level. You will learn how to identify and develop spatial strategies that stimulate the circular economy in a region and understand their multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar nature, and examine how these strategies conform to regional spatial and circularity strategies and the correlated actors.

Learning Objectives

• explain the key concepts and principles of circular regional spatial development.
• analyze existing governance approaches to integrating circularity principles into regional development visions by applying the transition awareness tool (governance).
• map and analyze the significant elements of specific value webs and their spatial patterns in a region, by applying different methods (AS-MFA - Activity based Spatial Material Flow Analysis, Systemic Diagram, Systemic Section and Integrated Mapping).
• identify strategic spatial interventions from real-life examples, based on principles of circular regional development.
• develop a narrative for a strategy, that is relevant and feasible in a given institutional context and robust in respect to uncertainties of long-term regional development.
• benchmark the route of a city and region along with the transition from linear to circular in comparison to other regions as a means of looking for opportunities for knowledge transfer.

Effort

4 - 5 hours per week / 8 weeks

Format

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), self-paced.

For whom?

This course is primarily geared towards working professionals.

Provider

Delft University of Technology / Faculty of Architecture and the Built Enviromnent

Prerequisites

You are either working or studying in the field of spatial planning or circularity and are interested in bridging the gap between them. This course is at an advanced level.

Hub

Central

Topic

Circular