Links

OPUS action research Web Sites:

• SoftGIS site: www.softgis.fi (opened in November 2006) - some information also in English
  
  
• Development Forum of Espoon keskus: www.espoonkeskus.fi (opened in October 2006) - for the present only in Finnish with an English summary
  
  
• Nupurinkartano Planning Forum: www.nupurinkartano.fi (opened in August 2006) - in Finnish

Material

Presentation slide show

• OPUS project presentation (September2007)

Papers and abstracts:

Nordic Planning Symposium "Local Authority Planning in Change: Beyond Dichotomies", 16.-18.8.2007 Oulu, Finland.

Paper presented 17.8.2007

• Erja Väyrynen: Planning implementation - from separation to joint processes (pdf)

Paper presented 16.8.2007

• Heli Rantanen: From gathering knowledge to managing knowledge (pdf)
  

ENHR (European Network of Housing Resesarch) -conference: "Sustainable Urban Areas", 25.-28.8.2007 Rotterdam.

Paper presented 25.6.2007

• Heli Rantanen: Mapping and managing local knowledge in urban planning (pdf)
  

_Landscape and landscape architecture symposium (Nordic Association of Architectural Research), 19.-21.4.2007, Aarhus.

Paper presented 20.4.2007

• Sirkku Huisko: Planning of multifaceted landscapes. Case: Land use guidelines for the Lake Mallusjärvi area in Finland.

Conference Urban Conditions and Life Chances

Paper presented 7.7.2006 in Conference Urban Conditions and Life Chances, Amsterdam 6.-8.7.2006.

• Maarit Kahila: The Use of Web-based SoftGIS Method in the Urban Planning Practices (Maarit Kahila & Marketta Kyttä) Paperi (pdf) ja slide show (pdf 1,8Mb)

Planum Plenum seminar

Paper presented in 16.2.2006 in Planum plenum seminar during CORP 2006 International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development, in Vienna.

• Heli Rantanen: From Local Knowledge Mapping to a Learning Planning Process. Paper (pdf) and slide show (pdf 1,7 Mb).
  • CORP 2006, Planum.net - European journal of planning

Electronic City Conference

Presentation 5.2.2006. FUTURE – Future Urban Research in Europe, The Electronic City Conference, Bratislava ( 3.2.-5.2.2006).

• Maarit Kahila: Possibilities of Web-based softGIS Method in Revealing Residents Evaluation Knowledge of the Living Environment. Paper (pdf).

COST Action E-39

Poster presented in COST Action E-39 (Forest, trees and human health and wellbeing in Thessalonica, Greece. October 2005.

• Marketta Kyttä ja Maarit Kahila : The perceived quality factors of the environment and their ecoefficient acceccibility. Paper (pdf).

IFIP -workshop

Paper presented in IFIP -workshop organized by SimLab in 5.-7.6.2005:
The IFIP WG 5.7 Special Interest Group on Experimental Interactive Learning in Industrial Management "New Approaches on Learning, Studying and Teaching”.

• Mirja Lemmetty, Erja Väyrynen, Heli Rantanen, Aija Staffans ja Riitta Smeds:
  Urban planning and everyday living: a learning process. (pdf)
  
  

TED -workshop (TED: "Towards Electronic Democracy" project of the ESF)

The abstracts were presented in a TED -workshop "e-Participation in Environmental Decision Making" organized by Systems Analysis Laboratory in 20.-22.5.2005.

• Marketta Kyttä: ‘SoftGIS’ method for studying the perceived environmental quality (rtf)
• Heli Rantanen: Mapping local knowledge: possibilities of WebGIS in a planning process (rtf)