Practices of Placemaking: affect, antagonism, attachment
A Routledge Handbook of Placemaking discussion probing some of the dominant and tropes narratives of placemaking
Date: 17 June
Time: 5 pm BST / 9 am PDT / 12 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 hours
The dominant and colloquial narrative of placemaking is that it arises from and/or results in happy and healthy place attachment and community cordiality. However, as placemakers attest, places are contested. Any work in place can generate tension and has to wrestle with social complexities.
Place is not a level social, political, or economic topography: this discussion, with contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Placemaking, seeks to trouble notions of place(making) in relation to affect, antagonism, and attachment.
Acting in the role of ‘interloper’, we are led by Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Manager for the city of Oakland, CA, a theorist on inclusion and belonging, and art-based civic engagement projects. He frames the conversation for the Handbook panel to respond to via a series of provocations on practice, the audience, and the placemaking sector.
Hosts: Dr Cara Courage, Editor, Tom Borrup PhD, Section Editor, Practices of Placemaking
Interloper: Robert Bedoya
Provocateurs:
Dave Loewenstein, muralist, printmaker and community organizer, Lawrence, Kansas
Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, artist and Assistant Professor of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona
Further speakers TBA.