Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice

The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking Edited by Cara Courage, with, 2020

20% Discount Available-enter the code FLR40 at checkout (Hardback @ £190; ebook @£35.99) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Placemaking/Courage-Borrup-Jackson-Legge-Mckeown-Platt-Schupbach/p/book/9780367220518 This Handbook is the first to explore the field of placemaking in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector. Placemaking has seen a paradigmatic shift in urban design, planning and policy to engage the community voice, This Handbook examines the development of placemaking, its emerging theories, and its future directions. The book is structured in seven distinct sections curated by experts in the areas concerned. • Section One provides a glimpse at the history and key theories of placemaking and its interpretations by different community sectors. • Section Two studies the transformative potential of placemaking practice through case studies on different places, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks. It also reveals placemaking's potential to nurture a holistic community engagement, social justice, and human-centric urban environments. • Section Three looks at the politics of placemaking to consider who is included and who is excluded from its practice and if the concept of placemaking needs to be reconstructed. • Section Four deals with the scales and scopes of art-based placemaking, moving from the city to the neighbourhood and further to the individual practice. It juxtaposes the voice of the practitioner and professional alongside that of the researcher and academic. • Section Five tackles the socioeconomic and environmental placemaking issues deemed pertinent to emerge more sustainable placemaking practices. • Section Six emphasizes placemaking's intersection with urban design and planning sectors and incudes case studies of generative planning practice. • Section Seven draws on the expertise of placemakers, researchers, and evaluators to present the key questions today, new methods and approaches to evaluation of placemaking in related fields, and notions for the future of evaluation practices. This seminal Handbook offers a timely contribution and international perspectives for the growing field of placemaking. It will be of interest to academics and students of placemaking, urban design, urban planning and policy, architecture, geography, cultural studies, and the arts.

This paper will present grassroots urban creative placemaking as a co-produced and performative artform. It will conceptualise this activity as the logical extension of urban arts practice, from public/new genre public art (Lacy 2008) and participatory arts to a ‘new situationism’ (Doherty 2004). This is a polylogic performative artform with space/place the non-human actant (Whybrow 2011, Kwon 2004) to the human ones of creative process and urban creatives. It will position participatory art as lacking a meaningful collaborative ethos and practice, and a co-produced one as a new paradigm of art practice of social relatedness (Gablik 1991, Miles 1997) and place this practice within a placemaking taxonomy (Legge 2013 and authors working paper). The paper will problematize the notion of urban arts practice and the formal arts sector as a critical spatial practice (Rendell 2006, Petrescu 2006) and will extend geographers critical thinking on the co-production of art as constructive of new spatial configurations and emergent relations between users and space, impacting public life (Meejin Yoon 2009), whereby locating it in the socio-political of urban life, this practice has to be understood as an art form that dematerialises the art object and is concerned with creative and social processes and outcomes. It will present research findings of fieldwork case studies that work in the public realm and aside from the formal galleries/museums sector, in a community co-produced context. Specifically, Art Tunnel Smithfield, Dublin; W Rockland Street, Philadelphia; and in the UK, Homebaked, and Greyworld.

New Media & Society

The concept of ‘place-making’ emerged in media studies in 2015, but to date, there has been little theoretical engagement with the term. The primary research question this scoping review answers is how is ‘place-making’ defined across disciplines and which methodologies have been applied to creative and digital projects? A bibliometric analysis of 1974 publications from Web of Science (published in the last 30 years) were analysed to (1) define ‘place-making’ across disciplines, (2) model common themes in scholarship, (3) identify the methodologies used and (4) understand the impacts on citizens. The results show that ‘place-making’ first appeared in geography/urban studies in 1960s, was then adopted as ‘creative placemaking’ in the creative industries, and in the past 5 years (since 2015), it has appeared as ‘digital placemaking’ in media studies. It also highlighted areas (i.e. gaps) for future research into ‘creative placemaking’ and ‘digital place-making’ practices for cultural ...

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 2020

Growing competition between cities and regions has stimulated a search for distinction, which in turn has increased attention for the role of place. Places provide a unique mix of attributes, which give meaning to the communities the use them, and stimulate the creativity that underpins cultural and economic development. Places do not only emergethey are also made and shaped through intended and unintended events. The recent vogue for "placemaking" represents a realisation that place marketing and place branding need to be more firmly rooted in place to be successful. There is also a school of thought that suggests that "creative placemaking", or "artist-led regeneration" can provide new solutions to age-old challenges. This paper analyses the contribution of the creative industries to placemaking programmes, focusing specifically on the experience of the Dutch city of Den Bosch. Here, traditional cultural regeneration has been supplemented by activation of the creative sector to provide meaning and direction for cultural, social and economic development. Den Bosch illustrates how small cities can achieve significant creative development, competing effectively with larger urban centres.

Acts of creative citizenship require places, where challenges and tensions generate energy, inviting resolution through creative collaboration. In this chapter we aim to shed light on processes of place-making, whether they occur in physical, digital or hybrid spaces. We adopt a broad definition of place to explore what place and making mean within three urban settings of our action research: a planning activist group in London; a hyperlocal news network in a Birmingham suburb; and a community media hub in Bristol. All three places support groups that share an interest in the relationship between artistic imagination and its political expression in projects of urban renewal. We pay particular attention to the ways in which communicative infrastructures, or the ‘communications matrix’, may contribute to the construction of social relationships, and civic agency, leading to dividends in the form of enhanced networks of affinity, trust and resilience.

Community Development Investment Review, 2014

In four years, Our Town, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), has invested more than $21 million in creative placemaking in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. ArtPlace America—an unprecedented consortium of foundations with national bank partners and government agencies serving as strategic advisors—has invested $56.8 million in projects where art-making improves community or place. The Kresge Foundation has adopted this framework for all of their arts funding. And both the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the US Department of Education have revised funding guidelines to encourage arts strategies as part of the Choice and Promise neighborhood programs. These are other examples of creative placemaking strategies are explored.

THE JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT, LAW, AND SOCIETY, 2020

ABSTRACT Cities can be incubators for innovation and key drivers of sustainable development. The conditionality for urban landscapes to be inclusive, will depend on the creativity for new orders and new strategies for social and cultural integration. The crucial role of urban landscapes in promoting sustainable development is notably recognized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which identifies culture and creativity as one of the essential levers for action in this context. Some examples on that direction point at the 2004- UNESCO created Creative Cities Network (UCCN) that aims to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. The UCCN focuses on seven creative fields, namely crafts and folk- arts, design, film, gastronomy, literature, media arts, and music. From the perspective of social anthropology and the arts, different stakeholder groups meet and exchange at urban places and co-create urban scenarios and scenographies by negotiating the urban landscapes through urban placemaking projects. This paper contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 whose aim is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by exploring and assessing urban placemaking strategies to strengthen inclusive and sustainable human settlement planning and management. For this purpose, the main research question of this project is: How to stimulate successful placemaking in urban landscapes for social integration in open urban spaces.

Creative Placemaking, 2018