Conforming and performing planning: an unbearable cohabitation

Territorial governance in Europe is managed by two models of planning: a more traditional and common one, aspiring to ‘conform’ single projects to a collective strategy; a novel and less institutionalised one, promoting projects able to ‘perform’ the collective strategy. The present contribution argues that current cohabitation of these two models is no longer bearable and that, particularly, conforming ambitions should be abandoned