Arts in Place

Courage, Cara

doi:10.4324/9781315659299

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“…Cara Courage (2017) has attempted a placemaking typology that offers a starting point for evaluating and theorizing practice. In Courage’s model, there are four forms of placemaking— public realm, creative, participatory , and social practice —with public realm and creative placemaking being relatively coordinated and top-down and participatory and social practice placemaking being relatively bottom-up and informal.…”

Section: Constituting Creative Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Up Creative Placemaking

Zitcer

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts and culture as tools for revitalization. Planners, policymakers, funders, and practitioners are engaged in a discursive struggle to define what is meant by creative placemaking and what value it holds for cities. Using frameworks developed by Foucault and Hacking, I analyze the emergence and ongoing contestation of this term, contrasting the way creative placemaking is understood and enacted by actors in Philadelphia with definitions employed by national funders. I argue that practitioner and community voices deserve amplification in the unfinished work of creative placemaking as urban practice.

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Section: Constituting Creative Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Up Creative Placemaking

Zitcer

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“…As a direct response to the loss of place caused by urban renewal policies and projects, placemaking was a call to action for an integrated approach to place that combines geographic, social, and material aspects. Here the concept of placemaking and place activation is deeply rooted in the reimagination of public spaces to foster social connectivity (Courage, 2017). People iteratively create and recreate the experienced geographies in which they live.…”

Section: Creative Placemakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

We Are Martinsville (WAM)

Khafif

Wibberly

Cleckley

et al. 2021

International Journal of E-Planning Research

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Rural communities in Virginia have experienced a decline caused by national economic trends. Formerly vibrant towns with rich histories and cultures increasingly suffer from a shrinking population and a lack of new investment, directly impacting the quality of life and services like education or health care. The loss of identity is a hindrance to innovative planning strategies and entrepreneurship. This paper reflects on an ongoing serious game effort developed by the University of Virginia and piloted in Martinsville, VA. That city’s once-vibrant community faces challenges like unemployment, opioid addiction, and obesity. We are Martinsville (WAM) recognizes Martinsville’s rich ties to its history and cultural assets, offering a digital tool in support of a creative placemaking strategy. WAM fosters community engagement while simultaneously increasing outdoor activities and allowing stakeholders to generate place-based game content. This paper describes the findings of the pilot project.

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“…Essentially, social practice creative placemaking is the intentional leveraging of the arts to shape the present and future of communities through community planning and development that is human-centric, comprehensive and locally informed. Social practice creative placemaking builds empathy, bridging social capital, and betters the economy of a polity (Courage, 2017). Broadly defined, art is a creative social construction which reflects the day-to-day lived experiences and realities of a people.…”

Section: Monitoring and Evaluation For Social Practice Creative Placemakingmentioning

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Monitoring and Evaluation of Transformative Creative Placemaking on University Campuses

Mutero

Govender

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The study argues that the value of arts-based interventions in peacebuilding and development is yet to be fully realised due to a paucity of effective monitoring and evaluation models. In a context of growing attention to the benefits of university community engagement to social change, this article reports on how social practice creative placemaking embedded in engaged scholarship can be assessed for efficiency and its effectiveness in giving salience to silenced and ‘unusual’ voices in the pursuit of social justice. We propose an effective monitoring and evaluation model that shows the change development processes and can track and attribute causality.

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Arts in Place

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Making Up Creative Placemaking

Making Up Creative Placemaking

We Are Martinsville (WAM)

Monitoring and Evaluation of Transformative Creative Placemaking on University Campuses

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