Trauma Informed Placemaking

Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities. The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and of place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first- and third-person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented throughout. These are organised into four sections that lead the reader to an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field – how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place – and concludes with calls to action for the trauma-informed placemaking approach to be adopted. This book will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested in people and places, from artists and architects, policy makers and planners, community development workers and organisations, placemakers, to local and national governments. It will appeal to the disciplines of human geography, sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology and to placemakers, planners and policymakers and those working in community development.

Table of Contents:
List of original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises List of figures List of tables 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 Index

About the Author :
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.