Today Professor Lone Kristensen presented on “Public Participation- Reflections and Some Experiences.” I felt that this material was a lot closer to the “stakeholder” process that I had learned before at UC Berkeley and felt more comfortable with the topic than a lot of the other things that we have been studying. Professor Kristensen then shared her experiences with successfully creating a citizen’s group in the Lihme Parish. A lot of the presentation really made me wish that we had more time to research and actually talk to the people affected by our ideas, but overall it was just nice to have this all presented to us.
The rest of the day was spent in group work, and my group worked especially hard on developing our case study areas. We not only made considerations as to what settlement strategy we wanted to implement for the area, but the housing types, the resulting advantages and disadvantages to our suggestions, but also considered other aspects, such as implementation strategies and ways to mitigate the disadvantages.
We then spent some time working on our individual presentations to summarize what we had learned and gotten out of the course.
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