Determining and representing value in creative placemaking

What is it about?

Explaining the benefits of improving public space. Placemaking is an activity that your local council, a building developer or a community group might do to make a public space more interesting, vibrant or useful. Creative placemaking means that art, theatre, music, craft or other creative activities are thrown into the process. Most people agree that improving a space using creative peacemaking benefits local areas in many ways, including business/economic improvements, environmental improvements and community/social improvements. Even though it is generally agreed that creative placemaking is a good thing, there is no real way to show the benefits to business or government organisations who need facts and figures to justify spending money on improvements and activities (such as creative placemaking events). We talked to experts in placemaking in NSW, Australia, to find out ways that the benefits placemaking might be explained with facts and figures to decision makers.

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