Creative Placemaking

Creative Placemaking

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Creative Placemaking

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Creative PlacemakingEmail your questions,

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NATIONAL CREATIVITY NETWORK WEBINAR

DECEMBER 15 , 2011

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for Creat i v i ty and Imaginat ion

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Engaging Creative Community:

Placemaking By Choice, Not By Chance

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Creative Placemaking is a Process

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IMAGINE: Everyone is Creative

“Every human being is an artist ... called to participate in transforming and reshaping

the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and condition our lives.”

:: JOSEPH BEUYS,German Artist

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Thinking in new waysA mindset of seeing

differently and perceiving differently

A process for planning, problem solving and creating

By choice … not by chance

“I learned creativity is more than just an ‘art’ thing.

It has to do with the mind and being able to open it up.”

:: 37-YEAR-OLD UCONN STUDENT

IMAGINE: Creativity is …

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IMAGINE: Creativity … What Is It?

Creativity is a process of: Becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies,

gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on;

Identifying the difficulty; Searching for solutions, making guesses, or

formulating hypotheses about the deficiencies;

Testing and retesting these hypotheses and possibly modifying and retesting them;

And finally communicating the results.:: E. PAUL TORRANCE

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IMAGINE: Creative Process

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IMAGINE: Developing Creativity?

M. Rhodes

4 PS OF CREATIVITY

PRODUCTIf it’s important, what does creativity look like … when it’s made visible?

PERSONHow might we encourage and recognize creative talents and behaviors in everyone?

PROCESSHow might we engage more creativity?

PLACEHow might we create and shape more creative environments?

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Creative Placemaking Requires Creativity

Deliberate creativity can be developed, practiced and

applied on purpose – by choice, not only by chance.

The intentionality is what makes creativity visible.

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E. Paul Torrance’s Manifesto for Creativity

WHAT IF WE … supported this kind of creativity in communities?• Don't be afraid to fall in love with something

and pursue it with intensity.• Know, understand, take pride in, practice, develop,

exploit and enjoy your greatest strengths.• Learn to free yourself from the expectations of others

and to walk away from the games they impose on you.• Free yourself to play your own game.• Find a great teacher or mentor who will help you.• Learn the skills of interdependence.• Don't waste energy trying to be well rounded.• Do what you love and can do well.

NATIONAL CREATIVITY NETWORK WEBINAR

DECEMBER 15 , 2011

Steven DahlbergInternat ional Centre

for Creat i v i ty and Imaginat ion

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Leo Vazquez

Arts Build Communities- Rutgers

University

Leo Vazquez

Arts Build Communities- Rutgers

UniversityEmail your questions, comments, or input to Wendy

Liscowwliscow@grdodge.org

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ABOUT US

A R T S B U I L D C O M M U N I T I E S

*Provides expertise on how arts connects economic and community development

*Provides continuing education and capacity building services, thought leadership and practical research

L E O N A R D O V A Z Q U E Z , A I C P / P P , D I R E C T O R

*15+ years in community planning and local economic development

*10+ years in professional development for urban planning and placemaking professionals

*Co-Founder of Arts Build Communities, a center focused on creative placemaking

WHAT IS CREATIVE PLACEMAKING?

A set of processes and strategies designed to promote economic and community development

through the arts and to enhance the environment for creativity

A new field that connects proven approaches to cultural development, community development and

economic development

Work that elevates creativity in a place, not just “bring arts”

Place is to space as person is to body.

Places have histories and meanings to its users, which go beyond the sum of its physical elements.

Places have identities; spaces have objects.

Placemaking is the ongoing set of processes and activities that develop, define and maintain places.

Most placemaking is unintentional, subtle, or goes unnoticed.

Placemaking happens through the relationships among people an their environments

WHAT IS PLACE? WHAT IS PLACEMAKING?

WHAT MAKES CREATIVE PLACEMAKING DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WAS DONE BEFORE?

T R A D I T I O N A L V I E W

• Arts are “brought in” to gentrify or civilize a place

• Arts are an add-on to other placemaking initiatives

• Arts should be concentrated in centers and districts

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• Arts connect and promote creative people and activities

• Arts are integrated with, even central to, community and economic development initiatives

• Arts and creativity everywhere

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CHALLENGES IN CREATIVE PLACEMAKINGM A N A G E R S & P L A N N E R S M O R E C O M F O R T A B L E W H E N T H E Y C A N …

Predict

Manage

Program

Work in phases with clear and measurable outcomes

Turn issues and challenges into solvable problems

B U T C R E A T I V I T Y T E N D S T O …

Be unpredictable

Be uncontrollable

Be allergic to regulations

Have subtle outcomes that lead to profound impacts

Raise awareness about problems that may be difficult or impossible to solve

STEPS IN CREATIVE PLACEMAKING

Capacity building strategies Developing a team of creative placemaking stewards Conducting analysis of current conditions Developing creative placemaking strategies

Implementation strategies Getting direct or indirect contributions Building creative communities Building creative economies

HOW ARTS BUILD COMMUNITIES FURTHERS CREATIVE PLACEMAKINGC A P A C I T Y B U I L D I N G A N D C O N T I N U I N G E D U C A T I O N

• Creative Placemaking Conference

• Creative Placemaking Certificate Program

• Community Coaching

R E S E A R C H A N D T H O U G H T L E A D E R S H I P

• NJ Creative Vitality Index

• Creative Placemaking Toolkit

• ABC NJ ArtiFacts

• Sustainable Jersey

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP

Director, Arts Build Communities

www.policy.rutgers.edu/abc

vazquezl@rutgers.edu

p. 848-932-2747

Twitter: RUArtsBuild

Rutgers University

33 Livingston Avenue, #245

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Donna Neuwirth

Wormfarm Institute

Donna Neuwirth

Wormfarm Institute

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A Live Culture Convergence

2011

Reedsburg Fermentation Fest

Featuring: the Farm/Art DTour

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S A V ES A V EThe Date…The Date…1. Look for a survey following this

webinar

2. Future webinars:

3rd Thursday every other month:

• January 19, 12:00-1:00pm EST Creative

Economies Index

• February 16, 12:00-1:00pm EST Crayola Chief

Creative Officer

1. Look for a survey following this webinar

2. Future webinars:

3rd Thursday every other month:

• January 19, 12:00-1:00pm EST Creative

Economies Index

• February 16, 12:00-1:00pm EST Crayola Chief

Creative Officer

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