Fostering Inclusive Citizen Engagement in Urban Development

Explore citizen engagement for achieving transformational societal goals

On this three-week course, you will develop your skills and knowledge in urban planning and development. Once you have completed this course, you’ll be able to plan for citizen engagement using a combination of both digital and traditional engagement.

Discover how to reconnect citizens with their living environment

Through video lessons and case studies, you will explore digital information and communication technologies to foster citizen engagement in urban development processes.

You will also examine and analyse various local government approaches to citizen participation in urban development.

Learn from the experts at RMIT University

As the largest urban research hub in the southern hemisphere, RMIT University provides an intellectual home for multidisciplinary urban researchers to successfully execute global and local initiatives with universities, industry, not-for-profits, media and government. This course has been co-designed together with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and has aligned itself to the New European Bauhaus Principles.

This course is designed for Professionals in Europe working in (or interested in) sustainable urban development and planning. It will also be of interest to city decision-makers and city officials.

• What is the New European Bauhaus (NEB) and is citizen engagement at its core?
• Fostering inclusive citizen engagement in urban development
• The citizen engagement landscape
• Placemaking and urban development
• Local government and citizen participation
• Weekly wrap
• Enacting citizen participation frameworks for site specific change
• Citizen engagement in practice
• Citizen participation across the four NEB axes
• Weekly wrap
• Engagement in practice: The impact of inclusive and meaningful engagement
• Engagement in practice
• Municipal approaches to engagement
• Place, culture and engagement
• Citizen driven projects
• It’s a wrap