THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY SUBSCRIBED - YOU CAN REGISTER FOR A WAITLIST PLACE VIA THE LINK BELOW
Are you a creative, artist or organisation in Birmingham working in creative and cultural placemaking? This specialist CPD led by Dr. Cara Courage, an international expert in creative and cultural placemaking is for you.
Bootcamp: Monday 18 November 10:00 - 17:00 (In Person)
Conference: Tuesday 19 November 10:00 - 17:00 (In Person)
Follow Up: Thursday 12 December 11:00 - 14:00 (Online)
This one day workshop, with a follow-up online support session will support peer exchange, share contemporary placemaking practices in Birmingham and workshop a set of city placemaking principles through an active and exploratory workshop in Balsall Heath.
There are 15 spaces, with bursaries for attendance to help co-create collective aspirations for creative and cultural placemaking and guide ‘how’ creative and cultural placemaking will happen in Birmingham.
This workshop will be taking place the day before the Developing future city plan makers: Conference and your registration for the Bootcamp will include your registration at the conference day.
£75 Bursary to attend
The bootcamp will be led by Dr. Cara Courage, Culture, Communities & Place Consultant-Director. Dr. Courage is a globally renowned placemaking, arts and heritage sector leader, named in the top 10 of place-thinkers worldwide and a ‘strategy angel’ for the culture sector.
Her passion for and dedication to people and place has led her to specialise in practices that are socially-engaged, community-led, and in embedded in place, whether that place be a team, a city park, a national museum or a rural town high street, doing this as a consultant, practitioner, researcher and writer. Cara works with local and national government, network organisations, universities, cultural institutions, artists and communities, and has worked on projects from Plymouth to Basildon, to Belfast to Derby, and across the USA and Europe. Much of Cara’s work is as a Critical Friend to organisations helping them think through what they do why, how and who with.
Cara’s most recent project is ‘Trauma-Informed Placemaking’, with Dr Anita McKeown, a research platform and textbook (Routledge, 2024). Cara is Editor and Convenor of The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (Routledge, 2021); Co-Editor of Creative Placemaking and Beyond (Routledge, 2018); and author of Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice(Routledge, 2017).
