Up-Ending Creative Place Making > A BIG QUESTION

Maybe it's just an old habit hard to break, but your MesaZona blogger likes to take a look at what's used to wrap-up an article or report or a proposal [or read an executive summary] before getting into the introduction or reading the main body of lines and paragraphs -or skipping around.
Let's go back to a number of posts about that ASU Downtown Mesa Campus Pie-In-The Sky Scheme : the problem?
It was an attempted done-deal way before the public got wind of it - A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION. Here's why 

In creative placemaking, inclusion is fundamental.
You don’t ask people for their feedback on something that’s already been made.
You ask them to start with you at the beginning.
How hard people will work to make sure that happens is an even bigger question.
If part of the goal is to create places that reflect neighborhood identities, isn’t it a challenge to ensure equity and inclusion?

Of course, people doing this work believe that everybody should be able to participate. But whether or not that happens is a big question. . .
It’s a place-based approach, so you’re working within a specific square mileage.
If, as an artist or community development corporation, you want to use creative placemaking to build cohesion in that defined place,
how do you constantly make sure you’re not missing people’s voices?

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Creative Place Making
LISC Our Stories 

By Lynne McCormack

As head of the creative placemaking program, Lynne, an artist by training, oversees LISC’s many projects that bring arts and culture into the work of comprehensive community development. Before joining LISC, Lynne served as the director of Art, Culture and Tourism for the city of Providence. For over thirty years, she has worked at the intersection of arts and community, forging partnerships that brought grants, festivals, employment opportunities and increased funding for arts-based development to the city. Lynne holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Or, at least, part of it. Last week, some 60 community developers, artists, public officials, funders and LISC staffers came together in Providence, RI to hash out the theory and practice of “creative placemaking,” which is becoming an increasingly integral part of community development work. In the interview that follows, Lynne McCormack, who joined LISC in October 2015 as director of creative placemaking for national programs and who spearheaded the meeting, answers some fundamental questions about creative placemaking. For starters: what the heck is it?
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