Geodesign Experience in Florianópolis Metropolitan Region: Practical Planning with Different Professional Backgrounds

ABSTRACT

The work shows an application of Geodesign for metropolitan region of Florianópolis, at Santa Catarina state, Brazil, with focus on reducing carbon emissions considering the future scenarios of 2035 and 2050. The research took place with students from the discipline of Multipurpose Land Registry and Territorial Planning related to doctoral course of the Post-Graduate Program in Territorial Planning and Social-environmental Development (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento Territorial e Desenvolvimento Socioambiental – PPGPLAN) from the State University of Santa Catarina - UDESC in the year 2021. The students had different training and performances, but all to a greater or lesser degree had experience in urban planning, with 25% knowing the methods and concepts of Geodesign. Due to the conditions of social distancing imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the lessons activities took place remotely. Four official weekly meetings and also daily communication were established to carry on the activities, which were performed by WhatsApp, email or even by extra on-line meeting. To assist decision-making on the GISColab Platform, a spreadsheet was created using Excel software that ensured the organization and systematization of proposals, as well as supporting the spatialization of policies and projects. Due to the students’ professional experience, the biggest challenge was shown in the proposition of ideas that corroborated with the initial goal, that was especially focused on territorial planning integrated in multifactorial parameters. In this sense, remote meetings fulfilled the role of initiating remote participatory discussion, sharing ideas and decisions for proposals adopted and approved in groups, but revealed the lack of specialized critical thinking, difficulties in developing territorial planning and defending ideas based on action and reaction that GISColab platform provides. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.