Conflicts in Planning: Major Projects and their Potential for Institutional Change

The lead project examines large-scale projects as profound ruptures that shake the well-rehearsed routines of institutions and can lead to institutional change. Such ruptures occur more frequently when contradictions arise between action-oriented and participatory rationalities that are difficult for politics and planning to resolve. For the lead project, characteristic of disruptive events - in addition to the features of surprise, acceleration and uncertainty - is above all the controversial intensification that leads to an escalation of conflicts. The project examines the large-scale project of the Tesla settlement in comparison to other case studies with regard to disruptive effects on policy and planning and thus tests the transferability of the term disruption to policy and planning research. The project is particularly interested in the question of how disruptions triggered by the settlement lead to a linkage of fields of action in different sectors (economic policy, nature conservation, climate protection, infrastructure planning) and scales, or why this is omitted.

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