Voices of Planners
International Planning Cultures & Perspectives Interviews
What is it about?
We invite planners from around the world to share their planning culture, professional journeys, and perspectives. Our goal is to establish a platform where planners from diverse backgrounds can share their experiences and thoughts. We hope this can provide valuable insights into the diverse and dynamic planning world.
Culture encompasses codes of manners, language, religion, rituals, art, norms of behavior, and systems of belief. In the realm of planning, culture extends to 1) the tasks of planning and how it is carried out, 2) the system/framework in which planning is embedded, and the values, background, and principles that guide planning practices.
Interview Languages: Arabic, English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
How does it work?
The first step
Let us know that you are interested. You can contact the project coordinator Jing Zhang at jing@planning.community.
Choose questions and topics
- Choose questions from our question pool and/or create your own. We suggest focusing on one or two topics. Question pool: http://international.planning.org/community/vop/question-pool/
- Prepare your answer. As an option, you can have a test run with us.
The interview
Be yourself and enjoy the conversation. No gotcha questions. No talking points. No BS. We will edit the video for clarity and share it with you for approval before publishing on YouTube. The videos will be about 5 minutes.
The YouTube Channel of Voices of Planners: https://shorturl.at/fioL8
Want to Join the Team?
We're seeking volunteers! We need assistance in finding participants globally and we are looking for interview hosts proficient in languages not covered by our current team members. Contact: jing@planning.community
VoP Team: Ali Estefam, Salma Haoudi, Jing Zhang (Coordinator)