Conceptualising Co-creative Planning Pedagogies: The Community Knowledge Triangle

Abstract

Co-creation has emerged as a hot topic in contemporary planning pedagogies. Co-creation is seen as advancing the mutual exchange of knowledge between various actors in an educational setting. Despite the growing interest in co-creation in planning pedagogies, the potential types and flows of knowledge between learning communities are weakly conceptualised. This article proposes the community knowledge triangle as a fitting conceptual tool for understanding mutual knowledge exchange relations in cocreative settings. The triangle was utilised in a planning course to unpack the co-creative logic. The results showed that academics, practitioners and students exchanged knowledge in multiple directions, yet not in a reciprocal relationship.

Promoting Social Inclusion and Mutual Understanding: Intertwined Efforts at Local, National and International Level

“…A bottom-up attitude must therefore be promoted in order to balance the vertical nature of those policies, offering a chance for the fulfilment of their potential. This means fostering an idea of learning based on codeveloping patterns of knowledge [7] and on a co-creative pedagogy seen as "advancing the mutual exchange of knowledge between various actors in an educational setting" [8].…”