Trauma Informed Placemaking

Cara Courage SFIPM, FRSA is a Culture and Place Consultant-Director and scholar, named in the top 10 of place-thinkers globally and a ‘strategy angel’ for the arts sector. She has authored and edited several books on the topic. Cara has a prodigious creative industries, cultural institutions and higher education professional career alongside a renowned academic one. She undertakes her own arts/place research and also for academy and sector-commissioned partners across the globe and UK, including for national arts networks, cultural institutions and local and central government. Anita McKeown, FRSA, FIPM, is an award-winning artist, curator, educator and researcher working at the intersection of Inclusive Design, Creative Placemaking, Open Source Culture and Technology and STEAM education, across a range of inter- and transdisciplinary projects, processes and partnerships. Anita is the director of SMARTlab Skelligs, SMARTlab Academy and co-founder of Future Focus21c, Anita’s work uses an adaptive change method reverse-engineered for 21st-century challenges and integrates design-thinking, circular economic principles, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) / Earth Charter to encourage a holistic growth mindset and develop strategies and tactics to build social, environmental and economic resilience and encourage systemic behavioural change.

List of original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises

List of figures

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List of abbreviations

List of contributors

Presentations of abstracts by curated section

Acknowledgements

Preface: The trauma-informed placemaking endeavour

Cara Courage and Anita McKeown

Forward: What it means to be trauma-informed

Angela Kennedy

Introduction: Pathways to a praxis

Cara Courage and Anita McKeown

Section 1 - Understanding and developing our trauma-in-place sensitivity

1. Towards Trauma Informed Placemaking; Mutual Aid, Collective Resistance and an Ethics of Care

Lynne McCabe

2. (em)Placing Trauma: The Wounds Among Us

Jacque Micieli-Voustinas

3. The DMZ and the Laundry: Lessons from K-drama for trauma-informed placemaking

Ayako Maruyama, Laura Van Vleet, Molly Rose Kaufman, Liam Van Vleet, and Mindy Thompson Fullilove

4. Flying, fleeing, and hanging on: Trauma baggage at airports

Rezvaneh Erfani, Zohreh BayatRizi and Samira Torabi

5. Trauma: the counterproductive outcome of the Land Restitution Program

Juan David Guevara-Salamanca and Gina Jimenez

6. Landscapes of Repair: creating a transnational community of practice with Sheffield and Kosovo-based researchers, artists and civil society on post-traumatic landscapes Amanda Crawley Jackson, Korab Krasniqi, and Alexander Vojvoda

7. The Filipino Spirit is [Not] Waterproof: Creative Placeproofing in Post-Disaster Philippines

Brian Jay De Lima Ambulo

Section 2 - Exploring the dimensions of trauma-informed placemaking

8. Ethical Placemaking, Trauma, and Health Justice in Humanitarian Settings

Lisa A. Eckenwiler

9. Beyond dark tourism: reimagining the place of history at Australia’s convict precincts

Sarah Barns

10. Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi

Carlton Turner, Mina Matlon, Erica Kohl-Arenas, and Jean Greene

11. Language Is Leaving Me – An AI Opera of The Skin

Ellen Pearlman

12. Trauma and healing in the post-conflict landscape of Belfast

Aisling Rusk

13. Anticolonial Placemaking

Karen E. Till and Michal Huss

14. Placehealing in Minneapolis: Before and After the Murder of George Floyd

Teri Kwant and Tom Borrup

15. Our place, Our History, Our Future

Julie Goodman, Theresa Hyuna Hwang and Jason Schupbach

Section 3 - Crafting Spaces of Resilience and Restoration

16. Trauma-Informed Placemaking: In Search of an Integrative Approach

Joongsub Kim

17. Theorizing Disappearance in Narrative Ecologies as Trauma-Informed Placemaking

Marwa N. Zohdy Hassan

18. Abandoned landscapes as places of potential for Nature Therapy: Glendalough, Ireland

Lyubomira Peycheva

19. The Promise of Trauma-Informed Migrant Placemaking: Arts-based Strategies for Compassion and Resilience

John C. Arroyo AND Iliana Lang Lundgren

20. Painting Back – Creative Placemaking in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley

Friederike Landau-Donnelly

21. Wanna Dance? Using Creative Placemaking Value Indicators to identify COVID-lockdown-related Solastalgia in Sydney, Australia

Cathy Smith, Josephine Vaughan, Justine Lloyd, and Michael Cohen

22. Healing from trauma in post-disaster places? Placemaking, machizukuri and the Role of Cultural Events in Post-Disaster Recovery

Moéna Fujimoto-Verdier and Annaclaudia Martini

23. Placemaking, performance and infrastructures of belonging: the role of ritual healing and mass cultural gatherings in the wake of trauma

Anna Marazuela Kim and Jacek Ludwig Scarso

24. Rethinking Placemaking in Urban Planning Through the Lens of Trauma

Gordon C. C. Douglas

Section 4 - Our call to action: nurturing healing through action

25. The Place Healing Manifesto

Charles R. (Chuck) Wolfe

26. Leadership Horizons in Culture Futurism & Creative Placehealing

Theo Edmonds, Josh Miller and Hannah Drake

27. Where Healing Happens: A working theory on Body, Relationship, and Intentional Structure for Restorative Placemaking

Elena Quintana and Ryan Lugalia-Hollon

28. The Art of Place

Daria Dorosh

29. Unravelling Memories: The metaphor as a possibility of resilience

Pablo Gershanik

30. Healing Place: Creative place-remaking for reconstructing community identity

Katy Beinart

31. A Reconciliation Framework for Storytelling: A Trauma-Informed Placemaking Approach

Katie Boone, Wilfred Keeble, Rita Sinorita Fierro and Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo

32. Allowing a conversation to go nowhere to get somewhere: intra-personal spatial care and placemaking

Sally Labern, Sophie Hope and Rebecca Gordon

Closing remarks: Being accountable as placemakers

Placemaking and the Manipur conflict

Urmi Buragohain

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