As Jamie Bennett writes in “Creative Placemaking: Doing Art to Change a Place,” “creative placemaking” is used “to describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities’ social, physical, and economic characters.” For some starting examples, check out the ArtPlace Grantee Summit 2014 on the subject in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit.
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