The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of
multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By
multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information
and communication technologies (from film and video to digital
ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new
possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and
research. The authors document the ways in which these ICTs can
expand the language of planning and the creativity of planners; can
evoke the lived experience (the spirit, memories, desires) of our
21st century mongrel cities by engaging with stories and
storytelling; and can democratise planning practices.
The text is epistemologically radical, in presenting an argument
for the importance of "multiple languages" (ways of knowing) in the
planning field, and making the connection between this epistemology
and the almost infinite potential of Multimedia to provide varied
tools to accomplish this transformation, displacing the supremacy
of the rational, linear and hierarchical with more open, playful
and imaginative approaches. Each of the authors brings practical
experience with different forms of Multimedia use and reflects on
the different potentialities offered by Multimedia for critical
intervention in urban and regional issues, and the power dynamics
embedded in such interventions.
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