Abstract

Participatory planning traditionally requires face-to-face meetings with the public in community fora, design charrettes, planning commission meetings, and so on. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and aided by online participatory technologies, planners have been translating their face-to-face practices for use in digital forums. These new tools are equipping planners with greater ability to control meeting interactions, including the ability to stifle dissent. In this Viewpoint, we argue that planners should devise the means to protect modes of digital dissent if they want to avoid propagating the injustices of physical participatory processes in the digital world. Based on ongoing research, we offer guidance to planners about how to begin discussing the meaningful roles dissent could play and how it might effectively and fairly be incorporated into virtual participatory planning processes. In practice, this means that planners must pay more explicit attention to the norms and rules of participation as they evolve for online settings and to avoid hasty judgments when confronted with dissenting voices.

摘要

参与式规划传统上需要在社区论坛、设计会议、规划委员会会议等中与公众进行面对面的会议。但是，由于 COVID-19 大流行并借助在线参与技术，规划者一直在将他们的面对面实践转化为在数字论坛中使用。这些新工具使计划者具有更大的控制会议互动的能力，包括压制异议的能力。在这个观点中，我们认为规划者如果想要避免在数字世界中传播物理参与过程的不公正，就应该设计保护数字异议模式的方法。根据正在进行的研究，我们就如何开始讨论异议可以发挥的有意义的作用以及如何将其有效和公平地纳入虚拟参与式规划过程提供指导。在实践中，这意味着规划者必须更加明确地关注在线设置的发展规范和规则，并避免在面对不同声音时草率判断。