The Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) hosted its second bienniel conference on African planning education from 5 to 8 October 2010, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The conference sought to consolidate the AAPS agenda around the revitalisation of planning education on the continent.
The conference involved a total of forty-seven participants. This number included thirty-seven representatives of planning schools drawn from Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In addition, valuable input and perspective was provided by representatives of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI), the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Cities Alliance, and the African Centre for Cities.
Conference downloads are available below:
- Conference background paper: This paper provides the necessary background to the history of planning education and recent innovations in the field of curricular development. It also proposes a framework for curricular development in Africa, based on a review of international literature and the outcomes of the previous AAPS Conference, held in 2008.
- Background presentation by Nancy Odendaal (AAPS): ‘Progress Report and Update’.
- Background presentation by James Duminy (AAPS): ‘Towards a Postgraduate Curriculum for Postgraduate Planning Education in Africa’.
- Summary of conference discussion and proceedings (including a list of conference participants and their contact details).
- Keynote presentation by Aromar Revi (IIHS): ‘India’s Urban Transformation and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements’.
- Keynote presentation by Edgar Pieterse (ACC): ‘African Urban Futures and Implications for Planning’.
- Group presentation: Actor Collaboration theme.
- Group presentation: Climate Change theme.
- Group presentation: Teaching Methods theme.
- Summary presentation by Nancy Odendaal (AAPS) on group feedback.
- Concluding presentation by Nancy Odendaal (AAPS): ‘The Future of AAPS’.
