SUMMER SCHOOL 2005

The moment for the best regional knowledge can be seen in a region as its character in accumulation of human capital. The knowledge is one of the most important factors for the regional development. The knowledge leads to the recognition of strengths and weaknesses, threats and opportunities in a region or in a city that allows a successful growth of endogen potentials. The development of knowledge production manages the regional value-making on the sensible way, but first of all we should know that the use of information and knowledge help compound with international competition and to spread the new ideas. It is obvious that regions and cities which are not interested in knowledge and innovation are permanently losing in the local competition.

With regard to the main topic science and the relationship to the spatial research and the spatial development, following aspects are important to be taken into the consideration:

• Time-spatial dimensions of the knowledge based society

• time-spatial relevant hallmark of the knowledge based society

• further development of spatial understanding in the knowledge based society

• harmonised play of dynamic and stability in knowledge and space

• Regional innovation systems in the knowledge based society

• innovation and diffusion research in context of the knowledge based society

• comparable analysis of regional innovation systems

• arise of innovations under diverse spatial contextual conditions

• reconnoitring of intraregional complementary relationships between innovation and development supporting factors

• de-central, counter-urban knowledge and enterprising nets

• What kinds of role are playing the knowledge intensive service providers for regional innovation processes outside of the metropolitan regions?

• Underlining the scientific dimension in spatial planning and regional development

• Time-spatial paths of knowledge-spillovers: How the regions can get „fit“ for the innovation competition?

• to bring to agree of spatial planning and spatial development policy to support the regional innovation and regional economy process

• knowledge management for space – space for knowledge management

• Benchmarking of regional innovation systems – How the regional economical dynamic could be measured and evaluated?

• Supporting programs for research, innovation and knowledge based intensive economy – aims and results in spatial dimension

Expectations

Competition was designed to consider or to implement the situations described above. We focused on the conclusions that should be done in the field of spatial and environmental policies and planning. That means combination of diverse aspects of technological, economical, social, cultural and spatial development with their challenge and collaboration. One special challenge of this competition was to join young collaborating researchers to achieve honoured creative field, full of non-conventional thinking. These ideas, impulses, designs should compete to „old good manors“. The outcome should be seen in influence of the knowledge based society and spatial development in diverse science fields and research ways and to manage future research activities.

Proposed themes has been elaborated from different points of view and different fields (e.g. spatial and regional sciences; city-, region- and landscape planning; geography; legal-, economy-, politics-, traffic- and social aspects). Diverse points of view and overlapping of different fields as well as the different levels of observations from local to European level were present in the particular proposals. Some proposals have been elaborated rather more theoretical and analytical point of view, the others were focused on the planning practice with science background.

Conditions for participation

Participants were students, graduates, collaborators in fields of spatial and environmental studies, research and praxis. Age limit was set up to 35 years and work from teams up to three authors has been acceptable. Contributions could not be longer as 20 pages DIN A4 (standardised page: 33 lines per page, 80 signs per line), written in English/German and should not be already published or offered for publishing. The end date for hand-in of papers was the 30th of April 2005. The prizes have been awarded by independent jury.

Proposals

The following proposals have been accepted into the competition:

• Sabine von Loewis, Frank Othengrafen : The intelligent Region – Knowledge Management as a Strategy for Regional Development
• Diana Schoedl : „If Europe knew, what Europe knows…“ Knowledge Management opens new Chances in the European Spatial Development
• Matej Jaššo: Cities in Competition: Searching for Corporate Identity
• Laura Berliner, Saskia Ziebell : „The impacts of Knowledge Based Society on the Spatial Development. On the way to Knowledge Based Urban Environment?
• Alexander Okon, Laura Calbet i Elias : „The Efficiency of Knowledge Based Society on Spatial Development“
• Felix Erler : The Impacts of the Knowledge on the Spatial Development
• Zuzana Ladzianska : Water Management in the Waterfront Regeneration
• Christian Langhagen-Rohrbach: Internet + UMTS + WLAN = „Evernet“? Spatial Impacts of the IuK-Technologies and its influence on Spatial Planning

Contributions of Spatial Planning Experts

Several experts from the EU Universities have contributed to the Summer school scientific profile. The following lessons have been introduced (along with the competition proposals):

FORUM 1 : Knowledge, Information and Space

Ladislav Kubo: Phenomen of Sustainability in Knowledge Based Society

Dagmar Petríková : Public Participation and Information Society

FORUM 2 : Knowledge Based Society and Spatial Development in the EU Member Countries

Prof. Maroš Finka: Territorial Cohesion in Spatial Development.

Prof. Isolde Roch: “Räumliche Wirkungen der Wissengesselchaft bei besonderer Beachtung ostdeutscher Entwicklungperspektiven”

FORUM 3: Knowledge Based Society – New requirements for the Spatial Relevant Policies

Ingrid Belcáková: SEA as a Tool for Safeguarding Sustainability in Information Society

Deborah Peel: “ Scotland : Space, Place and policies in a Knowledge Based Economy.

FORUM 4: Knowledge Based Society – New Requirements for the Spatial Reseach

Prof. Dr. Kujath: "Restructuring of Metropolitan Regions in the Knowledge Society - the Case of Berlin / Brandenburg .

Prof. Florin Zigrai : Cooperation and Participation of Spatial Sciences as Metascientific Assumption for more Efficient Spatial Research.

The price award

The independent Jury has decided not to award first prize, since the second prize has been awarded to two proposals:

• Alexander Okon, Laura Calbet i Elias : „The Efficiency of Knowledge Based Society on Spatial Development“

and

• Christian Langhagen-Rohrbach: Internet + UMTS + WLAN = „Evernet“? Spatial Impacts of the IuK-Technologies and its influence on Spatial Planning

These authors will have the opportunity to present it in the ARL and in the SPECTRA journal.

The third prize was also taken by two proposals:

• Sabine von Loewis, Frank Othengrafen : The intelligent Region – Knowledge Management as a Strategy for Regional Development

and

• Laura Berliner, Saskia Ziebell : „The impacts of Knowledge Based Society on the Spatial Development. On the way to Knowledge Based Urban Environment?

Conclusions

Design competition and the SUMMER SCHOOL 2005 have contributed to the following scientific goals and aims:

• The key phenomena Knowledge, Space and Information have been dealt with interdisciplinary scientific approach and their mutual links and relations have been discussed from the different theoretical and methodological point of view (spatial planning, sociology, environmental sciences, regional geography, economy, planning practice etc.)
• The current spatial development in the EU Member Countries has been surveyed in the relation to Knowledge Based Society.
• New requirements for the Spatial Relevant Policies generated by the development of Knowledge Based Society have been discussed and investigated.
• New Requirements for the Spatial Planning in regard to the Spatial Research were the subject of visioning and building the scenarios.