ARCH458

This hybrid case-study based seminar is the introductory course for the Creative Place Making minor; it will introduce students to Creative Placemaking as a practice that leverages the power of the arts, culture, and design to support equitable, vibrant, and sustainable communities. Students will analyze Creative Placemaking initiatives around the United States that elevate our shared humanity and address critical challenges, such as conversations about racial injustice, inequitable development, climate change or celebrations of the diverse communities and cultures around us. Such projects enable us to consider and imagine ethical development practices, especially in underserved and historically marginalized neighborhoods. Students will explore a range of issues related to designing, planning, executing, and evaluating this work. Based on presentations from CP practitioners, they will create presentations to capture the ways that artists and designers in partnership with local culture bearers and knowledge keepers can play a vital role in shaping, keeping, and making a place.