Layman's Talk: Debbie Oyeku on The Spatial Development Framework

In this series, we invite PhD candidates to come in and deliver their layman's talk, to make their research accessible to a wide audience. 

Our next guest is Debbie Oyeku. 

The spatial planning process is the arrangement of places and spaces: warehouses, schools, transportation networks, farms, hospitals, and so on. Planning support systems were introduced decades ago to make the planning process very easy, relatable, and usable with real-time data.

But the extent to which they've been used has been contested by researchers. 

Debbie's research therefore investigates how the planning support system becomes a part of planning, practice and reality.

Specifically, she focuses on how one planning support system - known as the Spatial Development Framework - has been used in Rwanda. 

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