March 31st | 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
How does placemaking open up the unexpected – and how do you plan for it?
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About this Event
In celebration of Women’s History Month, join Futurecity for a virtual ‘Happy Hour’ conversation among womxn professionals in the field of placemaking, who share their greatest surprises and insights from their courageous exploits across all scales of placemaking.
This event will bring together expert womxn contributors of the recently published book – ‘The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking’. Edited by Dr. Cara Courage, this seminal Handbook offers a timely contribution and international perspectives for the growing field of placemaking.
We will ask
What commonalities do we experience with placemaking at various scales – urban, rural, small-scale, community-led culture and fine art trained?
What structures can we put in place that allow freedom of creative interpretation and across the many people(s) who may encounter the work?
What are the placemaking stories not covered in the Handbook, but need to be shared?
We will uncover
How placemaking opens the unexpected, and how to plan for the unexpected.
The surprises and discoveries in our experiments, what sits outside the formal frameworks, and why it is necessary to do what we do without knowing all of the outcomes.
What helped shape our guidance in establishing the frameworks that both help measure and create desired chaos.
Contributors include
- Dr. Cara Courage, Head of Tate Exchange, Tate
- Sherry Dobbin, Partner, Futurecity
- Jamie Hand, Board Chair, ioby and ArtPlace America alumni
- Dr. Adelina Ong, Lecturer, Applied Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
- Michaela Paulette Shirley, Indigenous Design and Planning Institute, University of Mexico
- Rosanna Vitiello, Co-founder, The Place Bureau
Who should attend?
This event will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students of placemaking, urban design, urban planning and policy, architecture, geography, cultural studies, and the arts.
Bring along your favourite drink and snack and join the conversation! (Imagine a cabaret venue of choice – where we can be relaxed, provocative and seriously intended at the same time).
Please note that this event will be recorded.
