Placemaking With Local, and Global, Networks

Hear from leaders of regional placemaking networks and global placemaking agendas from many corners of the world. We will discuss Placemaking, and Place-Led Development, as an affordability agenda agenda and a driver of inclusive, safe and resilient neighborhoods. Public spaces, and the people that protect and improve them, transcend borders and reflect all stripes of humanity. People that practice placemaking to transform their communities bridge all kinds of barriers - from spatial and sectoral silos, to divides amongst demographics and disciplines. Disconnection From Each-Other, and From Our Places, Is At the Core of What Threatens Our Health, Happiness and Humanity. Places fail and succeed at the scale of human interaction. How our public realm supports a full spectrum of informal to formal connection is foundational to a viable, equitable and thriving civilization. Our divides and our crisis of disconnection are so deep that they threaten our ability to keep humanity going on this planet. The dominant culture is one of "place-taking," extractive of the shared value of what people and nature have built up over time. Placemaking is about building up the shared value of our public realm and deepening our connection to, and support of, each other and our places. Led by, and for, existing inhabitants, placemaking attracts people, tourism and investment on the terms of locals. The process of placemaking also sustains and integrates with "placekeeping" and "indigenous placemaking," preserving and adding layers of shared purpose and meaning to public space. The best way to disrupt our downward spiral of place-taking is with the virtuous cycle of placemaking. While driving enough private value to sustain investment, placemaking aims to uncover the unlimited potential of what people can accomplish together through shared spaces. Placemaking works to grow the collective power of people and places to build each other up. PlacemakingX Is Networking Place Wisdom and Work, Locally and Globally, for Collective Learning, Advocacy and Action PlacemakingX recently convened two Global Placemaking Summits recently to set the course for the global placemaking movement and supporting the 30+ regional placemaking networks with emerging cross-cutting global agendas. Leaders from these networks and agendas will report back as panelists for this session. The global placemaking community stands ready to support you from wherever you are at in your placemaking journey.