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Creative Placemaking

Author: Abigail Glastetter

Emerging Imageability Patterns In Creative Placemaking

How does my masters project relate to creative place-making?

I plan to engage with stakeholders and city officials so site design implementation can benefit a larger group of people. Through pedestrian counts and open interviews I will determine the relevance of the design solution to the field of landscape architecture and planning.

 

What relationships exist between my project and Indra’s Web?

I am looking to find the site scale drivers that inform creative placemaking. I will be interested in finding how socio-ecological processes can improve the adaptability of creative, urban landscapes.

 

What patterns am I looking for?

Pedestrian movement and engagement patterns will inform a design process for culturally and ecologically resilient urban sites. I will evaluate site imageability and analyze spaces for contextual patterns. This process will inform the site design proposal process for a creative, interactive public event; the design project will be based in combination with peer research and collaboration with stakeholders.

 

What patterns exist on a broad level? (potential pattern relationships between my project and Indra’s Web)

Determination of drivers (walkability, active transit, identity, experience, memory, triangulation effect) that encourage creative placemaking. Once revealed I can propose a more informed design proposal that encourages site activation AND resiliency. As the group works toward a design proposal to share with the stakeholder I can identify drivers that encourage site activation and duration.

Adaptable Imageability

       

creative placemaking: a process between user and landscape to develop a meaningful, engaging, and flexible space for any given user.

“The observer himself should play an active role in perceiving the work and have a creative part in developing his image. He should have the power to change that image to fit changing needs” (Lynch, 1960). As society continues to evolve and progress with rapid technological advances our landscapes are forced to fluctuate to match our ever-changing needs. Landscapes are dynamic, self- organizing systems to be preserved for the physical and mental sustainment of humanity (Ahern, 2012). Resilient landscapes are more capable to absorb the changing stressors we put on them while maintaining system functionality. The world continues to deplete resources at an increasingly unsustainable rate holding planners and designers responsible to develop a resilient process to reinvent cities beginning at the site scale using imageability as a catalyst for innovation.