creative placemaking, a situated generative...

Dr Anita McKeown NAISC Skellig Fellow, SMARTLab IDRC, University College Dublin

Creative Placemaking, a situated generative practice

The Rise of the Creative Class and how its transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. Richard Florida (2002).

What can a community development orgnisation do for the arts?

What can the arts do for communities ?

Culture and Community Revitalization: A Collaboration, 2006-2008

Creative Placemaking, Landesman 2009. Commissioned by the NEA and the Mayors’ Institute of City Design.

Ann Markusen & Anne Gadwa-Nicodemus, (2010)

Creative Placemaking,a situated generative practice – A very brief history

Key challenges to Creative Placemaking

• The role of the arts• Avoiding displacement and gentrification• Effective sustainable partnerships• Maintaining and developing legacy projects• Skepticism (Community and Investors)• Expectations (Community and Investors)• Concerns around Capital spend projects• Policy / Implementation Regulations• Evaluation metrics

Creative Placemaking,a situated generative practice – Challenges

Creative Placemaking, a situated generative practice – The problem landscape

Strategic Intervention Tactics

Bio-psychosocial InterventionAgile, Adaptive and Generative

Situated Managed Risk

Building Micro-ecologies

Eco-social CommitmentSystemic Awareness

Cultural Participatory Ecologies

Re-seeding Local Knowledge

Networked Co-productionProduction and Dissemination of Diverse

KnowledgeInclusion and Self-organisation

Re-Situating Arts, Design and Cultural activities

PermaCultural DériveResidential, Durational and ImmersiveCreative Leadership / legacy projects

Creative Placemaking, a situated generative practice – The vital signs building blocks

Observation

Boundaries

Resources

EvaluationDesign

Implementation

Maintenance

Survey the landscape

Find the edges and crossovers

Audit the resources

Consider the situation

Consider the logistics and plan the design

Put into action

Sustain the process and work towards legacies

OBREDIM design tool, Holmgren Mollison, 1972

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – The pCr dérive

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – The pCr dérive

Zone 2 Infrastructure

Zone 0Project ‘site’

Zone 3 Host / Commissioner

Zone 4 Local context

Zone 1Actors

Zone 5 Other Networks

Zone 0The Home

Zone 1Home garden

Zone 2 Home Orchard

Zone 3 The Farm

Zone 4 Managed Wood

Zone 5 Wilderness

Original Permaculture Zoning – David Holmgreen / Bill Mollision, 1978

Applied Permaculture Zoning – A McKeown, 2008 - 15

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – The pCr zoning

mapping the operational landscape and drawing attention to the proximity of ‘entities’

S - Socio-culturally specific, Simple, and Sincere

M - Meaningful as well as manageable and measurable

A - Appropriate, Achievable, Aspirational andAmbitious

R – Relevant, Responsive, Reviewed and Revised

T – Timely and time-specific

E - Eco-considerate and Ethical

R – Resilient, Resourceful and far – Reaching

SMART, Dorne, 1981 to SMARTER, McKeown 2012

Donella Meadows, Leverage points, 1972

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – A SMARTER operating system

Deptford, SE London• Self-appointed artist in residence in my own postcode• Long-term resident - Urban. UK context. New Labour policies

Taos County, New Mexico• A slow [r]evolution – Independent local organisations• Temp. resident repeated visits - Rural. USA Democrat president

and Republican Governor

UCD, Dublin, Ireland• Diverse Cultivars – Third / Fourth level educational Institution• Permanent new resident – Suburban. • Fine Gael / Labour and EU in Global recession

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – The Projects

AV Workshops

Deptford 45s was

1. A market stall for promotion and gathering local values.

2. A series of digital workshops.3. Website launch event 4. 7 x 3 min video portraits 5. Exhibition & projections 6. Live Remix Event 7. Listening Posts - 2008.8. Guerilla Projection Tour.9. Website

The 45s Series: Deptford 45sRemixing a location based on local values to challenge narratives

Audio and video source locations were given by local residents in response to the following question – ‘Can you tell me somewhere in Deptford that is important to you. Somewhere you value and would miss if it was gone? ‘

After recording the audio and video it was remixed to create the films and their soundtracks.

Deptford 45s – Building a micro-ecology

Gathering locations, Deptford market

Anita McKeown

ASU board:Ann LawlorDavid AylwardClaire MacRandallKarl Amsden

Other artists:Christopher ReyesIris Garrelfs

Miles EadySenay GaulFiona GreenhillTracy BluntRebecca Ryan

Arts office:Carmel LangstaffEve LangElizabeth Mitchell

Tourism & Dev:Jo Middleton

Town Centre Manager:Jennifer TaylorSarah Pfieffer

Markets:Brian Humphries

Manager:Tristran Scutt

Dog & BellDAGELYTAlbany Summer ArtsCo-op PepysMastershipwrightsHI8us / New LondonersConvoys Opps.Able Housing Co-opNettleton Rd Housing Co-op.

Z3 -Deptford

Arms

Z2 - LBL / A4A

Z1 ASU / AMcKeown

Z-3 Local Orgs Z3 - Albany


CATALYST Integrated Dance Project Strategic Intervention Tactics

Intimate Ecologies: Tastes of the MonumentExploring bio-cultural diversity one scoop at a time.

The Ice Cream Olympics – Reseeding Local Knowledge

Exploring and experimenting with ingredients Working Lab / Studio ‘Dig into Reading’ workshops


• Questa Library - Dig into Reading – x2 Reading and Ice Cream and Community day.

• Pecha Kucha Presentation and demo• Taos County Fair – Games, Tastings and Project

information.• Edible Medicinal Hikes with ice cream making• Questa High School educational programme –

walk and culinary arts.• Design Open Labs series in OCHO.• Design Ice Cream Social.• Taos Entrepreneurial Network presentation. • Artists Talk• The Ice Cream Olympic Games.• Evening Celebration Dinner• Closing Party – completion of exhibition and

residency.• Foundation of legacy projects – Developing a

Permaculture Greenhouse at the local high school.

Taos County Fair - Outreach


Game Day, 28th Sept 2013


WHY?

The Vital Signs Evaluation

Rubric

The Matrix

Inclusive Fitness theoryLife Cycle Analysis

The core aspects of the rubric

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – Evaluation

Earth Care: Considers the diversity within the project’s ecology and engages with consumption assessing materials and services. Also has an additional awareness for bio-centricity and recognising the need to move towards eco-centric practices.

People Care: Considers the accessibility, inclusivity, reciprocity, collaboration, participation within the project and processes. Also acknowledges the value and diversity of multiple knowledge cultures.

Fair Share: Considers the ethical working practices of the projects and their ability to contribute towards a sustainable ecology including sharing surpluses eco-social responsibility and accountability. Can also include a full life cycle analysis of businesses if appropriate / possible.

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – A Triad of Capital

Vital Signs / Permaculture triad

Earth Care People Care Fair Share

Building Micro-ecologies Sustainable practices and materials. Diversity.

Multiple entry points.Accessible

Diverse outputs and equitable exchanges

Strategic InterventionTactics

Interventional / process based. Agile and adaptive.

Bio / eco-centric awareness.

New policies or operational procedures

Sustainable resource management

Multiplier economies

Re-Seeding Local knowledge

Sustainable and purposeful. Knowledge equity, new networks, self-organising

Agency. P2P, Open Source

Re-situating Arts and Culture

Creating projects. Developinglegacies and proposals with eco-social commitments.

Collaborative Participatory Imaginative Innovative

Transferable / sharable systemic and situated approach

Creative Placemaking,a situated generative practice – Vital Signs Matrix

The Ice Cream Olympics

People Care Earth Care Fair Share

Re-Seeding Local Knowledge

Highlighted opportunities and ways of operation previously unknown that encourage sustainability.

21 events that shared the knowledge of making ice cream from local ingredients.

9 events at Questa High school – Culinary Arts and Science

Seeding pCr in LEAP and other knowledge through Questa Coaltion and Paseo involvement

Negotiated existing policies and procedures to exploit gaps in regulations, legally setting useful precedents.

Built Foundations for enterprising behaviour.

Increased opportunities for employment through developing connections e.g. herbal apothecary now working with school and BLM through a tactical learning approach.


The Ice Cream Olympics

People Care Earth Care Fair Share

Re-Situating Arts and Culture

Fully developed permaCultural project leading to the initiating of on-going actions towards permaCultural resilience

Initiated professional relationships and partnerships that are ongoing – Questa Coalition also initial development of The Paseo

ICO event attendance from 87556 zip code 75%

ICO residency engagement 87556 zip code 50%

Awarded LEAP’s first grant from Questa Economic Development Board.

Short-term contracts – 9 people.

Delivery approx: £6.85 per person

Cash income as % of budget: 30%


The Lifecycle Analysis - moving from an ego-centric towards eco-centric future

• Cleaner production• Land Use• Energy / Water• Re / Upcycle

• Functionality• Durability

Concept design

Materials & equipmente.g. hazardous substances,

sourcing

Administration and production processes

Outcomes

Inputs Processes Outputs

Creative Placemaking, a situated generative practice – The Life Cycle Analysis

Creative Placemaking, a situated generative practice – The Life Cycle Analysis

Creative Placemaking as a situated generative practice – The Inclusive Fitness Theory

Dr Anita McKeown NAISC Skellig Fellow, SMARTLab IDRC, University College Dublin

Image: McKeown / Gill, 2010

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