Emerging from discussions at the “The Grounds of Planning: Rationality, Pseudorationality and Critique“, which was held in Berlin in December 2025, a text formulating 11 theses on planning has been published by Jacob Blumenfeld, Rabea Berfelde and Solveig Degen.
The theses cover the following topics:
1. Planning for Future
2. Algorithmic Planning
3. Without Models
4. Knowledge, Rationality, Planning
5. Planning Nature
6. The Goals of Planning
7. Capitalist vs. Post-Capitalist Planning
8. Planning, Freedom and Choice
9. Planning, Transformation and Socialization
10. Democratic Planning
11. Limits of Planning
The theses can be found in English and in German.
