Widen your view with SKETCH'n MATCH : Empowering participatory planning in rural and spatial development
Mark Obbink
Sketch ?n Match is an interactive spatial planning method, developed by the former Dienst Landelijk Gebied (Dutch Governmental Service for Land and Water Management) and the Dutch Kadaster. The best way to realise plans is to mobilize local energy and knowledge. In the Dutch prac-tice, it became clear that the best way to do that is to involve people in an active way at an early stage of the planning process. Not by discussing about an already developed plan or concept, but by helping them to develop their own plan together. Images are the key to these processes. The Sketch ?n Match method has not only proven its value in the Netherlands, but also abroad. It?s about real participation. Planning becomes more creative and last but not least more fun! A Sketch ?n Match is a series of intensive interactive sessions lasting up to a maximum of three days, in which participants (citizens, policymakers, farmers, environmental and nature organizations, rural recreation companies and other share- and stakeholders), under supervision of a spatial designer and a process supervisor, analyze and work out the spatial problems in a specific region. With this method, local residents, experts and policy-makers together draft plans for a specific, well-defined area. The challenge usually involves finding solutions to spatial planning and rural development issues that meet a wide range of objectives relating to agriculture, water, nature, recreation, cultural history and rural housing. These different aspects are well discussed and weighted before the actual process of designing potential land use scenarios for a specific area. Sketch ?n match produces a spatial design created by the participants, in the form of a land-use plan, map, book, visual story, model, 3-D GIS visualization or whatever form that best suits the project.
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