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collaborative city planning and user-centred design. He Chief investigator on a number of ARC, CRC and Industry projects including: The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer (RAISE) Toolkit which has been the recepient of the NSW Planning Institute of Australia's Award for Research Excellence and the Committee for Sydney's award for Smart Cities - Industry partnership.


Prof. Pettit's expertise is in the convergence of the fields of city planning and digital technologies including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Planning Support Systems (PSS). He has given numerous keynote addresses at conferences around the world, is on the editorial board for a number of journals and has published over 200 academic papers. For the last 25 years, he has been undertaking research and development in the use of digital tools to support evidenced-based spatial planning.




Robert Goodspeed is an assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of collaborative planning, planning support systems, urban informatics, and scenario planning theory and methods, and is the author of the book Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions: Managing and Envisioning Uncertain Futures. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and serves on the boards of the conference Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) and the Consortium for Scenario Planning, an initiative of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.






Dr. Aija Staffans is an architect and works as Senior Research Fellow at Aalto University, Finland. Staffans is a pioneer in developing participative methods, digitally supported platforms and interactive environments for urban development and collaborative land use proces¬ses. She has initiated and leads the Aalto Built Environment Lab ABE for investigating innovative planning and design methodology. She also leads the multi-disciplinary research network of human-centered living environments, Living+, at Aalto since 2018. She holds several positions of trust and expertise in academic, professional and NGO organizations, and has impacted the development of urban planning in practice at various levels from local guidelines to national legislation in Finland.