• Interpretive Flexibility as an Approach to Designing Inclusive Urban Space: Learning from Medellín and Beirut 

      Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Harboe, Lisbet; Hoelscher, Kristian; Petersen, Sobah Abbas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this article, we examine how urban design can promote inclusion by simultaneously accommodating multiple expressions of interests and identities and providing common ground for interaction between different social and ...
    • Key issues for enhancing citizen participation in co-constructing city futures 

      Smørdal, Ole; Wensaas, Kristina Ebbing; Lopes-Aparicio, Susana; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Hoelscher, Kristian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Citizen participation is often a goal of urban development. However, in reality levels of actual participation are often low, limited to certain sets of stakeholders, and the collaboration between them often poor. In ...
    • Norske floker - urbane utfordringer - Rapport fra forskningsprosjektet Learning Flexibility 2018 

      Harboe, Lisbet; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Hoelscher, Kristian; Petersen, Sobah Abbas; Christie, Ingrid Nytun (Research report, 2018)
      Et stort demografisk skifte til urbane levesett og den økende urbaniseringen gir både muligheter og utfordringer. Blant de største utfordringene kan vi nevne ressursknapphet klimaendringer og byvekst, sammen med mer komplekse ...
    • What Can We Learn from Urban Crisis? 

      Hoelscher, Kristian; Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie; Harboe, Lisbet; Petersen, Sobah Abbas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The irreversible transition towards urban living entails complex challenges and vulnerabilities for citizens, civic authorities, and the management of global commons. Many cities remain beset by political, infrastructural, ...