Visioning For Future and better of Mind Psychology

Visioning For Future and better of Mind Psychology

Visioning is a process in which participants build consensus on a description of the group's desired future and is based on actions to help making that future a reality (Moore et al. 1999). An important aspect of visioning is the way a vision has been established. If a vision is shared, many people will be committed to it (Senge 1994).

As part of a planning process, visioning is supposed to be inclusive, collaborative and consensus-based (McCann 2001). Visioning can be considered as one of the early steps in a participatory planning process that make use of the co-think capacity' of stakeholders. It can also offer the opportunity to imagineer' futures for places in ways that facilitate innovative, creative and comprehensive perspectives beyond those of traditional land-use and market-led planning (Gaffikin and Sterrett 2006). In literature, the term vision' has been defined in many ways (Shipley 2000; O'Brien and Meadows

A vision is not a fantasy, but rather a picture of what might be achieved within a municipality or region given an optimistic view on capacities and constraints (Myers and Kitsuse 2000).and Stadsblokken Meinerswijk in Arnhem in 2008 provided for an increased acceptance of this planning method. The main difference between cases described in literature and Dutch visioning projects is that the latter have been organized principally by institutional stakeholders, e.g. governmental agencies, often in combination with or delegated to a group of committed stakeholders, e.g. private owners, real estate enterprises and experts like landscape architects or urban planners. Such initiatives usually result in a Landscape Development Plan.

Critics of visioning by stakeholders and involved civilians stress that it entails high costs and that expectations may be created that cannot be fulfilled (Haines 1998). Others, like Helling (1998), object that a vision does not stand for a plan capable of providing a route to realise the vision including the resources needed. Besides, scholars' critique concerns the factor of power in visioning processes. McCann (2001) and Hurley and Walker (2004) show that planning is an arena for competing visions for the future of the landscape, a struggle between different social groups regarding whose vision should guide planning in the years to come.

Literature on visioning shows that the scope of a vision varies, from small ones (like cases in specific areas we describe later), a river basin (Verhallen et al. 2001), or community and urban planning (Ames 1997; Helling 1998; McCann 2001; Margerum 2005). Such studies demonstrate that visioning used as a public Participation tool provides an effective pathway that can be followed towards a shared plan (Senge 1994; Morrison 2003). In the Netherlands, for example, visioning has been used in urban renovation projects for decades. Although in the water sector visioning is rarely used, the visioning projects like Hamlet IJsselzone Zwolle in 2001

In spite of the increasing number of visioning projects referred to in literature some difficulties remain. Cole (2001) mentions the gap between a vision and its realisation in practice. Wilson (1992) describes pitfalls like executive impatience, lack of flexibility, failure to implement and to build consensus. This paper primarily focuses on the difficulty of consensus building. This can be attributed to a certain degree to different interests, values and approaches of the involved stakeholders. While on the whole the interests of the participants are more or less clear, their values are more difficult to grasp. Emphasis on the elicitation of values prior to or during the visioning process is important since it improves communication among stakeholders (Aarts 1998). This increases efficiency of the debate (Jacobs et al. 2002) and contributes to mutual understanding, or even consensus, on an abstract level.

2001); it generally refers to an image of a desired future state (Parikh and Neubauer 1993).

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