Training Decision-Makers: GEODESIGN Workshop Paving the Way for New Urban Agenda

GEODESIGN represents an effective framework promoting collaborative planning and decision-making as an incremental process based on robust methodological guidance. In this application, GEODESIGN had been adopted as a tool for training decision makers in “facing planning challenges deriving from ITI Urban Agenda development” according to “sustainability” and “climate responsive principles”. The case study represents a joined activity realized by the Municipality of Potenza (member of the EU Climate Adaptation Partnership) and the LISUT Laboratory (Engineering School at UNIBAS). The results regard the comprehensive approach in terms of participation capacity of decision makers without any background in planning disciplines and unveiled the weaknesses of traditional approach mainly based on “building agreements” without any measurements of spatial evidences or scenarios comparisons.