Creative Placemaking for Inclusive Urban Landscapes

Abstract

Cities can be incubators for innovation and key drivers of sustainable development. The conditionality for urban landscapes to be inclusive, will depend on the creativity for new orders and new strategies for social and cultural integration. The crucial role of urban landscapes in promoting sustainable development is notably recognized in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which identifies culture and creativity as one of the essential levers for action in this context. Some examples on that direction point at the 2004- UNESCO created Creative Cities Network (UCCN) that aims to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. The UCCN focuses on seven creative fields, namely crafts and folk- arts, design, film, gastronomy, literature, media arts, and music. From the perspective of social anthropology and the arts, different stakeholder groups meet and exchange at urban places and co-create urban scenarios and scenographies by negotiating the urban landscapes through urban placemaking projects. This paper contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 whose aim is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by exploring and assessing urban placemaking strategies to strengthen inclusive and sustainable human settlement planning and management. For this purpose, the main research question of this project is: How to stimulate successful placemaking in urban landscapes for social integration in open urban spaces.

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