12/15/2011 Webinar: Creative Placemaking: Thinking Beyond Projects

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Steve DalhbergCreative Placemaking Email your questions, comments, or input to Wendy Liscow wliscow@grdodge.org

Engaging Creative Community: Placemaking By Choice, Not By Chance NATIONAL CREATIVITY NETWORK WEBINAR DECEMBER 15, 2011 Steven Dahlberg International Centre for Creativity and Imagination www.appliedimagination.org dahlberg@appliedimagination.org 612 432 5442imagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

Creative Placemaking is a ProcessIMAGINE CONNECT ENGAGEimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

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 Artistimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

IMAGINE: Creativity is …  Thinking in new ways  A 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 STUDENTimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

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 TORRANCEimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

IMAGINE: Creative Process  Generating  Conceptualizing  Optimizing  Implementing MIN BASADURimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

IMAGINE: Developing Creativity? 4 PS OF CREATIVITY If it’s important, what does PRODUCT creativity look like … when it’s made visible? How might we encourage and PERSON recognize creative talents and behaviors in everyone? How might we engage more PROCESS creativity? How might we create and shape PLACE more creative environments? M. Rhodesimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

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.imagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

Creative Placemaking is a ProcessIMAGINE CONNECT ENGAGEimagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

E. Paul Torrance’s Manifesto for CreativityWHAT IF WE … supported this kind of creativity in communities? • Dont 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. • Dont waste energy trying to be well rounded. • Do what you love and can do well.imagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

Engaging Creative Community: Placemaking By Choice, Not By Chance NATIONAL CREATIVITY NETWORK WEBINAR DECEMBER 15, 2011 Steven Dahlberg International Centre for Creativity and Imagination www.appliedimagination.org dahlberg@appliedimagination.org 612 432 5442imagine INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION

Leo VazquezArts Build Communities- Rutgers University Email your questions, comments, or input to Wendy Liscow wliscow@grdodge.org

ABOUT US LEONARDOARTS BUILD V A Z Q U E Z , A I C P / P P, D ICOMMUNITIES RECTOR*Provides expertise on *15+ years in community planning and local how arts connects economic economic and development community *10+ years in professional development development for urban planning and*Provides continuing placemaking education and professionals capacity building *Co-Founder of Arts Build Communities, a center services, thought focused on creative leadership and placemaking practical research

WHAT IS CREATIVE PLACEMAKING? A set of processes and strategies designed to promoteeconomic 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 developmentWork that elevates creativity in a place, not just “bring arts”

WHAT IS PLACE? WHAT IS PLACEMAKING?Place is to space as Placemaking is the person is to body. ongoing set ofPlaces have histories processes and and meanings to its activities that users, which go develop, define and beyond the sum of its maintain places. physical elements. Most placemaking isPlaces have identities; unintentional, subtle, spaces have objects. or goes unnoticed. Placemaking happens through the relationships among people an their environments

WHAT MAKES CREATIVE PLACEMAKING DIFFERENTFROM WHAT WAS DONE BEFORE? C R E AT I V ETRADITIONAL VIEW PLACEMAKING• Arts are “brought • Arts connect and in” to gentrify or promote creative civilize a place people and activities• Arts are an add-on • Arts are integrated with, even central to other to, community and placemaking economic initiatives development• Arts should be initiatives concentrated in • Arts and creativity centers and everywhere districts

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CHALLENGES IN CREATIVE PLACEMAKINGMANAGERS & PLANNERS B U T C R E AT I V I T YMORE COMFORTABLEWHEN THEY CAN… TENDS TO…Predict Be unpredictableManage Be uncontrollableProgram Be allergic toWork in phases with regulations clear and Have subtle outcomes measurable that lead to profound outcomes impactsTurn issues and Raise awareness about challenges into problems that may be solvable problems difficult or impossible to solve

STEPS IN CREATIVE PLACEMAKINGCapacity building strategies Developing a team of creative placemaking stewards Conducting analysis of current conditions Developing creative placemaking strategiesImplementation strategies Getting direct or indirect contributions Building creative communities Building creative economies

HOW ARTS BUILD COMMUNITIES FURTHERSCREATIVE PLACEMAKINGC APA C I T Y B U I L D I N GAND CONTINUING RESEARCH ANDE D U C AT I O N THOUGHT LEADERSHIP• Creative Placemaking • NJ Creative Vitality Conference Index• Creative Placemaking • Creative Placemaking Certificate Program Toolkit• Community Coaching • 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 InstituteEmail your questions, comments, or input to Wendy Liscow wliscow@grdodge.org

A Live Culture Convergence 2011 Featuring: the Farm/Art DTourwww.wormfarm institute.org

SAVEThe Date…1. Look for a survey following this webinar2. 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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12/15/2011 Webinar: Creative Placemaking: Thinking Beyond Projects

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