The roles of an institute of a temporary planning process

Abstract

A strategy of temporary use provides an opportunity for obtaining new ideas in the process of testing different concepts of permanence. It enables municipalities and other authorities to experiment with various approaches to abandoned areas, vacant plots and unused buildings. The proposal of the paper is to define the main roles of an independent institution which serves as a mediator among all the parties involved in the process of temporary use - owners of premises, potential temporary users and the neighbouring community. The research analyses case studies of the most significant temporary planning institutes in Europe and summarises the general principles of a temporary planning institute. Municipalities working with a proposed temporary planning institute possess a number of tools for the implementation of legible procedures of temporary use in the process of activation of neglected areas.