Theme: “Planning a Global Village: Inclusion, Innovation, and Disruption“

Traditionally, planning has been conceived as means for achieving and guiding a better future. Planning is understood as a ‘prescriptive’ field that provides us with clear and detailed means and ways of achieving our dreams, goals, and objectives. The power of planning is believed to be its promise to bring about an improved condition and a better future. Recent trends, however, indicate the dramatic and significant shift from the traditional approach of seeing things for granted to ‘disruptive innovation.’ It splintered into many aspects of individuals and communities, including planning and design. Not only does disruptive innovation become a cornerstone in current academic discourses, but it also calls for new approaches in observing, critiquing, and analyzing our contemporary issues and problems. As such, disruptive innovation deconstructs our traditional comfort planning notions and practices and engages us in a new unprecedented era and territory. Coupled with the trends toward inclusivity, understanding, conceiving, and planning our global village, the idea that we are interconnected through the use of new media technologies has become more exciting. Several questions could arise from these situations and challenges: what are the roles of space, time, and culture in this global village under the era of inclusion and disruption? How does planning comprehend and conceive this unprecedented era? Can planning still able to provide helpful directions to course the future of our global village? The joint 5th WPSC congress and 16th APSA congress in 2022 use these ideas as the backdrop for critically examining the effect of disruptive innovation and inclusion in planning and design. At the same time, the congress also considers topics related to globalization and how it stimulates creative disruption and inclusion in planning and design. We encourage ideas that consider disruptive innovation and inclusion as other forms of a machine capable to co-opt various actors and institutions in disseminating certain social, economic, and cultural values, planning and design as a form of resistance against the commodification process diffused across space and social groups and systematically embedded in the structural power relations of innovation politics, and historical assessment of space and built environment as a form of disruptive innovation.