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Creative Placemaking
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus September 14, 2012
Taste of Summ
er © 2008 C
ity of Philadelphia Mural A
rts Program/A
nn Northrup and R
eentry Workers
Photo © JackR
amsdale.com
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Legacy © 2006 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program/Josh Sarantitis
Jane Golden and Seasons of Youth mural. Photo by Shea Roggio courtesy of Philadelphia Magazine
Design in Motion © 2009 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program/Desiree Bender & Big Picture Youth. Photo by Steve Weiinik
Ann N
orthrup and inmate artists at R
iverside Correctional Facility celebrate G
oing Hom
e, the mural on w
hich they collaborated. Photo by C
lem M
urray for the Philadelphia Inquirer
Garden of D
elight © 2010 C
ity of Philadelphia Mural A
rts Program/D
avid Guinn
Arnaudville, Louisiana
Musician Joe Hall Photo © Lorrae Lantier
Photo © D
an Bertrand
Weekly fiddle jam Photo © Tom Pierce, 2009
Monthly French Table at the Deux Bayous Gallery Photo © George Marks
Paducah, Kentucky
Creative Placemaking?
Creative placemaking:
* partners from public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors
• strategically shape
• the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, tribe, city, or region
* around arts and cultural activities
Place Arts &
Cultural Activities
Creative Placemaking:
Cross-Sector Partners
Place Arts &
Cultural Activities
Creative Placemaking:
Cross-Sector Partners
animates public/private
space
brings diverse people together to
celebrate, inspire + be inspired
rejuvenates structures + streetscapes
improves biz
vitality
improves public safety
Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, Seattle Washington. Photo from Artspace collection
Brick and Mortar
Planning/Arts Districts
Design in Motion © 2009 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program/Desiree Bender & Big Picture Youth. Photo by Steve Weiinik
Art advancing other functional domains
Before I Die by Candy Chang. Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Shake Shack
Ephemeral Interventions
WaterFire Providence® by Barnaby Evans. Providence, RI. Photo © Michael Melford
Festivals/iconic (public) art
Artwork’s SpringBoard Cincinnati
Creative Economy Initiatives
Place Arts &
Cultural Activities
Creative Placemaking:
Cross-Sector Partners
animates public/private
space
brings diverse people together to
celebrate, inspire + be inspired
rejuvenates structures + streetscapes
improves biz
vitality
improves public safety
!"
“a means of investing in art and culture at the heart of a portfolio of integrated strategies that can drive vibrancy and diversity so powerful that it transforms communities.”
Rocco Landesman, Photo © Chicago Tribune
“Vibrant is a quality you find in cities or neighborhoods where there is an arts or music “scene,” lots of restaurants and food markets of a certain highbrow type, trophy architecture to memorialize the scene’s otherwise transient life, and an audience of prosperous people who are interested in all these things.”
-Thomas Frank, The Baffler
“The blind love of creative placemaking that is tied to the allure of speculation culture and its economic thinking of ‘build it and they will come’ is suffocating, unethical, and supports a politics of dis-belonging employed to manufacture a ‘place’.”
-Roberto Bedoya Arts in a Changing America
Where do we go from here?
• Embrace the good – Cross-sector partnerships=real innovation – Infuse arts and culture into community
development
• Responsiveness: shore-up rhetoric and practice based on criticism
• Investigate, learn, and share to strengthen practice and inform investments – Get specific!
Place Arts &
Cultural Activities
Creative Placemaking:
Cross-Sector Partners
animates public/private
space
brings diverse people together to
celebrate, inspire + be inspired
rejuvenates structures + streetscapes
improves biz
vitality
improves public safety
Ingredients
• Prompted by an initiator with vision and drive
• Tailors strategy to distinctive features of place
• Mobilizes public will
• Attracts private sector buy-in
• Garners support of local arts and cultural leaders
• Builds partnerships across sectors, missions, and levels of government
Challenges • Countering Community
Skepticism
• Forging and Sustaining Partnerships
• Assembling Adequate Financing
• Clearing Regulatory Hurdles
• Ensuring Maintenance and Sustainability
• Avoiding Displacement and Gentrification
• Developing Metrics for Performance & Evaluation
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus gadwa@metrisarts.com metrisarts.com
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