Workshop: Focus Group and Planning Game
Between 2017 and 2019 the Working Group Spatial Planning (WGSP) of the UniGR - Center for Border Studies organised two planning games with planning practitioners from each of the five parts of the Greater Region with the aim to analyse cross-border planning cultures. In order to strengthen their methodological knowledge and enhance the analysis of the planning games carried out so far, the WGSP under the direction of Tom Becker (University of Luxembourg), Hélène Rouchet (University of Liège), Julia Lenz (University of Saarland) and Dr. Beate Caesar (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) organised a workshop on focus groups and planning games on 18 November 2020. During the half-day workshop, the invited expert, Mrs. Christine Henseling, research associate from the Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung in Berlin, gave a short overview of focus groups. An exchange of views with the planning game methodology presented by the members of the WGSP highlighted the similarities and potential differences between the focus group and planning game methodologies.
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