This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together a range of scholars to critique and deconstruct the notion of creative placemaking, presenting diverse case studies from researcher, practitioner, funder and policymaker perspectives from across the globe. It opens with the creators of the 2010 White Paper that named and defined creative placemaking, Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, who offer a cortically reflexive narrative on the founding of the sector and its development. This book looks at vernacular creativity in place, a topic continued through the book with its focus on the practitioner and community-placed projects. It closes with a consideration of aesthetics, metrics and, from the editors, a consideration of the next ten years for the sector.
If creative placemaking is to contribute to places-in-the-making and encourage citizenled agency, new conceptual frameworks and practical methodologies are required. This book joins theorists and practitioners in dialogue, advocating for transdisciplinary, resilient processes.
Author(s): Cara Courage; Anita McKeown
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: xviii+222
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Curating research, theory and practice
Section 1 – Evolving Ecologies
Section 2 – Dialogical Ecologies
Section 3 – Scalable Ecologies
Section 4 – Challenging Ecologies
Section 5 – Extending Ecologies
References
SECTION 1: Evolving Ecologies
1. Creative placemaking: Reflections on a 21st-century American arts policy initiative
Abstract
Introduction
Creative placemaking as cultural policy shift
Challenges for creative placemaking: Diversity and displacement
Evaluating creative placemaking initiatives
Is creative placemaking a worthy and enduring policy initiative?
Notes
References
2. Spaces of vernacular creativity reconsidered
Abstract
Introducing the vernacular
Creative multiplicity
Decentring creativity
Creative citizenship
Acknowledgements
References
SECTION 2: Dialogical Ecologies
3. Turning local interests into local action: Community-based art and the case of Wrecked! On the Intertidal Zone
Abstract
Situating art in Southend-on-Sea
Part I: Conflicting demands and the Thames Estuary
Part II: Building a community-based arts project
Part III: Local engagement for local change
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Arrivals and departures: Navigating an emotional landscape of belonging and displacement at Barangaroo in Sydney, Australia
Abstract
Introduction
Welcome to Barangaroo
Revitalisation as displacement
Arrivals and departures
Conclusion
Notes
References
5. A case for human-scale social space in Mumbai
Abstract
Introduction
The Urban Vision approach
Project context
Methods and methodology
Findings
Conclusion
Notes
References
SECTION 3: Scalable Ecologies
6. A rural case: Beyond creative placemaking
Abstract
Artists aren’t always activists
Notes
References
7. Creative placemaking in peri-urban Gothenburg: Mission impossible?
Abstract
Introduction
Cultural policy meets socio-economic restructuring
Gothenburg Development North East
The GDNE project – creative placemaking?
Conclusion
References
8. A conversation between a collaborating artist and curator: Placemaking, socially engaged art, and deep investment in people
Abstract
Introduction
The conversation
Notes
Reference
SECTION 4: Challenging Ecologies
9. Temporary spatial object/architecture as a typology for placemaking
Abstract
Introduction
Situating spatial objects/architectures in place
Temporary spatial objects
Temporary architectures
Conclusion
Notes
References
10. Place guarding: Activist art against gentrification
Abstract
Introduction
The roots of creative placemaking
Creative placemaking, social capital and gentrification
Creative placemaking as neoliberal function
Artists against gentrification
Conclusion
Notes
References
11. Outros Espaços: Apathy and lack of engagement in participatory processes
Abstract
Introduction: Participation, engagement and placemaking
Project context and methodology
Conclusion: The unwanted gift – apathy and lack of engagement
Afterword
Notes
References
SECTION 5: Extending Ecologies
12. Towards beauty and a civics of place: Notes from the Thriving Cities Project
Abstract
Introduction
Why ‘thriving’?
An ecological model of cities
The Endowment Framework: An ecological paradigm for civic thriving
The case for ‘The Beautiful’ as an Endowment of thriving cities
Beauty’s social architecture: Art as a public good
Future research: From Creative Placemaking to a civics of place
Notes
References
13. From indicators to face validity to theory – and back again: Measuring outcomes of U.S. creative placemaking projects
Abstract
Premise
Challenges in measuring the impacts of
Enshrining greater livability as a program goal
Birth of NEA Arts and Livability Indicators
Validation exercises get under way
Parallel and complementary research efforts
Conclusion
Notes
References
Conclusion: Moving into the beyond – What’s next for creativeplacemaking?
Part 1 – Coming full circle
Part 2 – The art of creative placemaking
Part 3 – Into the beyond
Notes
References
Index
