B211, session I, Thursday 12.15-13.45

Chair: Eva Purkarthofer (UVA), Oliver Schulte-Tigges (UVA) & Tuomas Honkaniemi (UVA) 

Periphery as a new centre? Constituting a new regional policy paradigm through militarization
Kaj Zimmerbauer (OU) & Satu Kivelä (OU) 

At the Intersection of Human Geography and Literary Studies: Interpreting the Travelling “Creative City”Narrative in Finland 2000–2025
Marjaana Sederholm (HU) 

Public participation in aquaculture from EU policy to regional domains: the case of spatial planning in Finland and Spain
Elli Arvola (UEF) 

PIVOT (Participatory GIS urban development Tool): A Modular Tool for Co-Producing Actionable Planning Knowledge
Derek Van Berkel (University of Michigan, HU) 

B211, session II, Thursday 15.30-17.00

Path Dependence, Place and Territorial Governance: The Historical Development of the Energy Cluster in Vaasa, Finland
Tuomas Honkaniemi (UVA) 

Navigating Institutional Complexity at the Micro-Level: How Finnish Land-Use Planners Reconcile REPowerEU
and the EU Nature Restoration Law
Courtney Fitchuk Lampi (UVA) 

Reflective Practice in Urban Planning: Practitioner-Level Action, Institutions and Place
Oliver Schulte-Tigges (UVA) 

Do public planners have transformative agency in the sustainability transition? Untangling competing discourses and
practices related to the scope of action of planners
Eva Purkarthofer (UVA)