Societies are constantly changing, facing new challenges and possibilities generated by innovative technologies, sociospatial re-structuring and mobilities. This research approaches these challenges by exploring the role that stories about pasts, presents and futures play in planning. It sees stories as interlinked spaces of struggle over meanings, legitimacies and powers through which “our” valuable pasts and “our” desirable futures become re-constructed, framed and projected. It argues that powerful stories might consciously or unconsciously become institutionalised in policy discourses and documents, foregrounding our spatial realities and affecting our living spaces. These arguments and assumptions are investigated in relation to three cases: Regional-Pasts, SeGI-Futures and ICT-Futures. The stories about pasts, presents and futures surrounding these cases are investigated with the aim of initiating critical discussions on how stories about pasts and futures can inform, but also be sustained by, planning processes. While studies of these cases are presented in separate papers, these studies are brought together in an introductory essay and reconstructed in response to the research questions: How do regional futures become informed by the pasts? How do particular stories about the pasts become selected, framed and projected as envisioned futures? What messages are conveyed to the pasts and the presents through envisioned futures? How can stories of the past be referred and re-employed in planning to build more inclusive futures? To engage with the multidisciplinarity of these questions, they are investigated through dialogues between three main fields: heritage studies, futures studies and planning. The discussions have challenged the conventional divides between pasts, presents and futures, emphasised their plural nature and uncovered how the discursive power of stories play a significant role when interpreting pasts and envision futures in planning practices. / <p>QC 20160523</p>

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A obra O vendedor de passados, do escritor angolano José Eduardo Agualusa, tem como enredo um homem que tem o estranho ofício de comercializar passados. Os clientes normalmente costumam procurá-lo por questões de ordem financeira e social, tendo os novos passados a função de apresentá-los melhor à sociedade. A trama ganha novos contornos com a chegada de um estrangeiro que se coloca á disposição do vendedor para que este lhe atribuísse a identidade que considerasse a melhor. Questões referentes à identidade e suas implicações emergem. O processo, que a princípio parecia simples, torna-se cada vez mais obscuro. A memória atua como um dos fatores de maior interferência no procedimento, atribuindo a ele maior complexidade. As experiências do indivíduo também sofrem mutações com o procedimento de compra. E por fim, a identidade do sujeito sofre modificações com a obtenção de um novo passado. Tais questões que surgem em decorrência do peculiar comércio de passados serão foco de estudo da presente dissertação / The book The book of chameleons, by the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, has as story a man who has the estrange job of selling pasts. The costumers generally use to look for him because of financial and social issues, the new pasts have the function of introduce them better for the society. The story obtains new forms when a foreigner arrives. He doesnt tell de seller who is he, instead of that, he puts himself as a white paper for the seller tell him who he would be. Issues concerned to identity and its implications become very present. The process, which in the beginning seemed to be simple, become more and more complex. The memory acts as one of the factors of major interference on the procedure, making it more difficult. The persons experiences also changes because of the new past. And the identity has also modifications in the end. Such issues, that occur because of the different shopping of pasts will be focus of research in the present dissertation

A obra O vendedor de passados, do escritor angolano José Eduardo Agualusa, tem como enredo um homem que tem o estranho ofício de comercializar passados. Os clientes normalmente costumam procurá-lo por questões de ordem financeira e social, tendo os novos passados a função de apresentá-los melhor à sociedade. A trama ganha novos contornos com a chegada de um estrangeiro que se coloca á disposição do vendedor para que este lhe atribuísse a identidade que considerasse a melhor. Questões referentes à identidade e suas implicações emergem. O processo, que a princípio parecia simples, torna-se cada vez mais obscuro. A memória atua como um dos fatores de maior interferência no procedimento, atribuindo a ele maior complexidade. As experiências do indivíduo também sofrem mutações com o procedimento de compra. E por fim, a identidade do sujeito sofre modificações com a obtenção de um novo passado. Tais questões que surgem em decorrência do peculiar comércio de passados serão foco de estudo da presente dissertação / The book The book of chameleons, by the Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, has as story a man who has the estrange job of selling pasts. The costumers generally use to look for him because of financial and social issues, the new pasts have the function of introduce them better for the society. The story obtains new forms when a foreigner arrives. He doesnt tell de seller who is he, instead of that, he puts himself as a white paper for the seller tell him who he would be. Issues concerned to identity and its implications become very present. The process, which in the beginning seemed to be simple, become more and more complex. The memory acts as one of the factors of major interference on the procedure, making it more difficult. The persons experiences also changes because of the new past. And the identity has also modifications in the end. Such issues, that occur because of the different shopping of pasts will be focus of research in the present dissertation