Presence in the Planning Process Social Interaction and Shared Reality Geoinfo 2004 Institut of Geoinformation und Cartography TU Vienna Christine Rottenbacher

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Introduction

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Preview  context  planning participation  shared reality  presence  correspondence – common knowledge construction  presence and decision making in groups

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Planner in the Field of Public Participation In my planning practice I have to create a process in which information is emotionally and cognitively perceived and accepted by the participants in order to arrive at decisions concerning their future.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Planner in Public Participation

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Shared Reality A successful planning process results in a shared constructed reality. This reality emerges from interaction and communication in groups. To communicate it is necessary: o to get into contact, o to come to a mutual understanding.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Mutual Understanding sending and perceiving participants should have corresponding capacities to perceive and to interprete. corresponding structures increase during the common experience of concrete situations.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Concrete Situations Walking through the space to be planned, helps to get into contact, change interactions, and produce mutual respect for different points of view. Therefore each encounter in a planning process is structured in a walking and a sitting period. → moved planning process

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Phases of One Encounter Welcome Common starting Arrival in the situation Joint experience of Movement and Space Find the Topics Common decisions Sharing of responsibilities

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Presence My current research results relate to: my practical experiences, studying literature, a field experiment, to insights of the theory of contact (gestalttherapy).

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Presence, with the focus on one person We experience presence in concrete situations. The experience of presence is necessary to: perceive, interprete, and to integrate new infomation to the personal acting.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Presence, with the focus on groups Interactions of groups in presence: get into contact, buildig trust, mutual understanding, shared reality, common knowledge construction, decision making.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Contact during Walking The bodies of participants give information about state and attitude during encounter. Participants achieve a common rhythm, fall in step and synchronize breathing. During walking participants encounter the same concrete stimuli, the space to be planned.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Results of the Field Experiment Participants experience immediate responses which evoke primary patterns of existence and less patterns of intellectual thinking. Different experiences remain side by side as different concepts, but concrete experiences “Here and Now” and understanding are shared, and form the base for alternative interactions.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Field Experiment Shared Reality The body language of the participants showed first in an emotional correspondence that there will come a decision about the shared reality, a common knowledge construction is named!

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher HOW Reality-Anticipating Future During walking and sitting we reach a bodily consensus from bodily correspondence and then in reflection we name what we experienced, perceived, and our joint expectations: → we anticipate the future and name it, → a common knowledgeconstruction increases, → we make decisions, → we immediately realize first steps.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Connection to Virtual Discussion Data

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Data wants to be seen, to be experienced, to be perceived, to be integrated into knowledge and everyday acting of the user.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Relation Data-User Knowledge construction happens in the presence. Now I am able to grasp new information and integrate it to knowledge, if: I have trust and confidence in the data, the context of information-transfer is simple and familiar.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Data and Presence concrete experienced situations, well imagined situations, I am able to remember previous experienced situations in a holistic way- gestalt theory.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Presence for Groups Also the interaction with data has to run through the phases of: getting into contact, building trust, understanding, knowledge construction and decision making, realization and the shared experience of outcome.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Contribution of group dynamics The experience of the outcome of first decisions is important for the development of an enlarged base of Interactions - a group dynamic. → the corresponding system, experienced in presence, supports participation, knowledge construction, and decision making.

presence in the planning process christine rottenbacher Further Work Pay more attention in combination of concrete to virtual context for decision making in groups.