Between phenomenon and fiction, present and future in planning

reflections on temporalities and futurities

Abstract

This text gives continuity to investigations on several themes of public planning and its characteristics and modalities, carried out in recent years, with the objective of contributing to a discussion related to the importance of perspectives of time and future adopted - implicitly or explicitly - in the processes of planning. Elsewhere, it was shown how the differentiation between planning modalities depends, to a large extent, on their perspectives in relation on time and future. Therefore, in the current work, planning itself will not be the direct object of the investigation, but different approaches to time and future of different areas of knowledge will be studied, which are expected to result in certain “impulses” or “inspirations” to seek an understanding more comprehensive. At the end of this task, we return to a first re-approach to the theme of planning. That is, this will not be a mere “incorporation” or “appropriation” of other concepts, but a reflection on time and future in a context (which is planning) where this context itself needs to be questioned.