A Call for Value Literacy in Port City Transitions

A Call for Value Literacy in Port City Transitions

Hein, C.M. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics)
Mulder, I. (TU Delft Design Conceptualization and Communication)
Sennema, Hilde (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

2021

Over the last decades, values have been re-addressed in planning, policies, businesses, heritage and education. While these fields seem to agree on the importance of values, it is often unclear what actors mean by values, and how they use these values to shape decisions. A decade after a global financial crisis, in the midst of a global pandemic, and on the eve of global climate emergencies, difficult choices need to be made to safeguard a sustainable future. These choices call for value-driven deliberations, especially in the globally connected, multi-problem environment of the port city. To do that, however, stakeholders need to know what they mean when they talk about values, and how to deliberate them. In other words: they need to be value literate. In this article, we study the concept of value and values in the context of port cities in the past, present and future. After an analysis of historical uses of values in port cities, we assess six projects that explicitly and implicitly deal with values in port cities, to explore methods or strategies that can help to elicit values in different phases of decision making processes.

Value Literacy
Methodology
Transitions
Port City Eco-system
Complexity

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:792cb42b-9122-464f-bc0a-0128a483890e

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/12393

2612-0496

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL), 4 (2), 108-129

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Port City Cultures, Values, or Maritime Mindsets, Part 2: Studying and Shaping Cultures in Port City Territories

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© 2021 C.M. Hein, I. Mulder, Hilde Sennema