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.
List of original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Presentations of abstracts by curated section
Acknowledgements
Foreword: What it Means to be Trauma-Informed
Preface: The Trauma Informed Placemaking Endeavour
Notes to the text
List of abbreviations
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
Biography
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.
