Creative Place-Making: Expanding Inner and Community Boundaries:

Nine Ideas for Storying

Photo credits: Clare Hintz

Creative Place-Making •  People’s attachment to place and the

meanings that they make of their place are important drivers of an ACTIVE care for a place.

•  Who and what are part of our community? Who and what are not?

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Creative Place-Making

•  These drivers are filtered through – ecological and social

knowledge – experiences – social relationships –  identity

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Creative Place Making •  Creative place making is a way of

helping shape and reshape the values, meanings, and emotional bonds with a place in a way that empowers people.

•  It’s people in the community storying themselves into connections with each other, the land, their towns and cities, and their homes and neighborhoods.

Photo credits: Clare Hintz

The Penokee Read

•  Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin •  Storytellers –people from the community – speaking

about the value of the Penokee Hills •  The Penokees are alive vs. dead resources to be taken •  http://www.wrnclp.org/feature-2/ •  http://www.ashlandwi.com/news/

article_8edd74a6-8b9a-11e2-a38b-0019bb2963f4.html

Photo credits: earthfirstnews.wordpress.com

City Repair

•  Portland, Oregon •  Events to create

gathering spaces and other life in neighborhoods

•  http://cityrepair.org/how-to/pmresources/

Photo credits: www.cityrepair.org

Heart of the Beast Puppetry

•  Minneapolis, Minnesota •  Art as community building •  Street performance and neighborhood

block party on National Night Out •  http://vimeo.com/47241417 •  http://hobt.org/

Photo credits: www.hobt.org

“Intervention Day: Planet Earth's Premier Holiday”

•  Boulder, Colorado •  1980s Radio broadcast on

KBCO •  Aliens came and said

“you will be sustainable” •  http://

www.etherworlds.com/spacestation/InterventionDay.html

“Your Hand Here”

•  http://streetartscene.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/living-exercises-remove-hand-when-no-longer-strangers/

•  http://ryanvbrennan.com/living-exercises-wheatpastings/

•  New York, New York,

•  performance artist Ryan V. Brennan

Photo credits: http://streetartscene.wordpress.com

The Art of the Rural •  Facebook group celebrating the richness

of rural life. •  http://theruralsite.blogspot.com/

Photo credits: http://theruralsite.blogspot.com/

Going Mobile •  Phone app from the Cleveland Historial

Society with placed stories of Cleveland History

•  http://clevelandhistorical.org/

Photo credits: http://clevelandhistorical.org

Innovation Salons

•  Once-a-month gatherings to talk about innovative ideas

•  Anyone can come •  Over time, as more and more

people come, a community reimagines itself as an innovative place

•  Connections are made and things happen!

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Chalkboard Campaign •  Install chalkboards in the community in different places. •  Leave them blank, and don’t give out chalk. See what happens. •  After awhile, write in the corner: “Got chalk?”

See what happens. •  Maybe provide chalk. See what happens •  Take regular photos and post to a website, the

address of which is given near each chalkboard. •  Make it possible for others to upload pictures of

things that show up on the boards.

Creative Place-Making

•  Creating a new sense of the boundaries of a community

•  What examples or ideas can you give?

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Other Resources

•  http://www.pps.org/reference/what_is_placemaking/

•  New Creative Community by Arlene Goldbard

•  Beginner's Guide to Community-based Arts by Keith Knight, et al.

Photo credits: Clare Hintz