Co-Creation Beyond Humans: The Arts of Multispecies Placemaking

Placemaking, as a form of urban development often focusing on arts- and community-based approaches, is becoming a key site for responding to pressing social and environmental concerns around the development of sustainable urban futures. This article explores the potential of arts-based methods to de...

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Published inUrban planning Vol. 7; no. 3; p. 315
Main Author Olsen, Cecilie Sachs
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lisbon Cogitatio Press 01.09.2022
Cogitatio
Subjects
Arts
arts-based methods
Climate change
co-creation
Design
Environmental conditions
Latour, Bruno
multispecies art
Participation
placemaking
socially engaged art
Sustainable development
Urban development
Urban planning
Norway
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Summary:Placemaking, as a form of urban development often focusing on arts- and community-based approaches, is becoming a key site for responding to pressing social and environmental concerns around the development of sustainable urban futures. This article explores the potential of arts-based methods to develop a “multispecies placemaking” in which “the community” is expanded to also include non-human species. Drawing on a performative event aiming to put the idea of multispecies placemaking into practice, the article brings together theories and practices of the evolving field of multispecies art with the more established field of socially engaged art to discuss challenges of co-creation and participation from a multispecies perspective. It concludes with a reflection on the possibilities of arts-based methods to foster not only methodological innovation within the field of placemaking but also to suggest a re-thinking of what placemaking is and could be.
ISSN:2183-7635
2183-7635
DOI:10.17645/up.v7i3.5288