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The “visioneering” planning tool (that combines “envisioning”, i.e. how to develop a vision for the future, and “engineering”, i.e. how to design and engineer future reality) is to design comprehensive and inspiring pictures of regions in order to stimulate the political, public, and professional debate. While planning tools like forecasting, scenario techniques, and spatial modelling are mainly based on quantitative geographical and statistical data, the visioneering tool assists to perceive and understand a territory and people on site by using mainly qualitative research methods. The visioneering approach has been tested and applied, in the context of the Poly5 project, in the Ljubljana Urban Region, along the Mediterranean Corridor, with collaboration between the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Ljubljana.
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Zech, S., Andreotta, C. (2015). Preparing the Future: Visioneering in the Planning Process of Mega Transport Infrastructure. In: Fabbro, S. (eds) Mega Transport Infrastructure Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16396-3_11
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