Description:
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- 6 Month Course Access
- Live discussions with instructor and peers, Online: Mar 30, Apr 13, Apr 20, Apr 27, May 4, 3:30-5 pm Eastern/ 12:30 to 2 pm Pacific. Meetings will be recorded for anyone who can't join live.
- For anyone working in placemaking/placekeeping, arts administration, community economic development, or government services
- Break from April 2 to Apr 9, 2023
If we see placemaking as a creative response to people's needs, wants, or desires within a place or community, placemaking can be utilized to protect, connect and value the people in a place. Good placemaking acknowledges the most historically marginalized groups and people in the place in order to listen, account for and prioritize their needs. In this course, we will examine gentrification from its definition to the historical conditions that set it in motion to placemaking strategies that can lead to erasure and displacement and placemaking strategize that can be effective against gentrification. Managing Gentrification focuses on how creative placemaking can be engaged to minimize or address various types of displacement. How can creative placemakers best prepare for, and address the negative consequences of change? How can creative placemakers engage in placekeeping – ways of protecting certain communities within those places from various forms of displacement? How can arts and cultural activities be used to help residents address gentrification?
Expected time to complete course: 3 to 5 hours per week
Learning outcomes:
In this course, learners will:
- Explore frameworks and tools for measuring gentrification and placemaking initiatives
- Understand the historical conditions that have contributed to gentrification
- Learn about placemaking strategies that can lead to erasure and displacement
- Learn about placemaking and placekeeping strategies that can help to limit erasure and displacement
- Understand how belonging and dis-belonging impact place and placemaking
- Evaluate case studies that effectively address gentrification in the community
- Access the place and context in which you live and evaluate how gentrification is affecting it.
- Consider placemaking strategies and projects within the context of gentrification
Topics covered:
- Defining place, space and home
- Overview of gentrification and placemaking
- Historical conditions affecting gentrification
- Doing creative placemaking without displacement
Learning methods:
You learn by engaging in thoughtful peer exchanges led by the instructors, short exercises or assignments, and reflective writing. You can participate in live weekly discussions over Zoom or through a discussion board.
About the instructors:
Emily Fitzgerald is a consultant, photographer, artist, educator, and storyteller. Her practice focuses on the intersection of the social, political, and visual in order to inspire dialogue around complex issues and reframe our ways of relating to one another. Emily facilitates conversation and creates site-specific art installations in non-traditional, public, and unexpected places. She is the co-founder of Works Progress Agency, a socially-engaged art studio and consultancy, and from 2016-2019 was a co-curator of MATTER, a storefront space dedicated to social practice exhibitions, workshops, and other happenings. She teaches art, photography, and Design Thinking classes at Portland State University.
Additional statement from the instructor:
It feels important to me when teaching on topics such as gentrification or conducting any community-based practice, especially those addressing gentrification for practitioners or educators to first address and be transparent about their own privilege and position. I am a middle-class cis-gendered white woman and artist. My husband and I bought our house in 2012 in NE Portland, a neighborhood that had been primarily African American. I acknowledge that I am a part of gentrification and am implicated in gentrifying my neighborhood. In 2015, I began a long-term project with this in mind––People's Homes builds intergenerational relationships and shares the stories and experiences of some of the oldest homeowners in my neighborhood and place. This is a complicated topic and I certainly don't have all the answers, but I am excited to begin this journey of exploring it together.
About Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership Deep Learning courses:
Deep Learning courses in the Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership program give you advanced skills and knowledge to help you make better creative placemaking strategies
In these interactive online classes, build your expertise through engaging discussions led by expert practitioners and scholars, and by exploring carefully curated ideas and cases. Each course includes live sessions with instructors and fellow placemakers, plus exercises and thought-provoking discussions that you can complete at your convenience. You also get the opportunity to get input and insights on your placemaking work from your classmates and the instructor.
Learn more about the Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership program <<LINKTO: https://cpc.cpcommunities.org/cpal>>
For questions about the Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership program, please contact Leonardo Vazquez (MAILTO: leo@cpcommunities.org)