Innovations in Practice: Placemaking

What If We Got It Wrong? The Gift of Failure: Unlearning success and reclaiming risk in civic practice, by embracing the uncomfortable in academic engagement.

Despite the growing emphasis on arts and creative practice in place management, there is often little space for honest discussion of what doesn’t go to plan — misaligned collaborations, disengaged communities, unanticipated resistance, or short-lived interventions. This webinar invites contributors to share insights from failure, friction, or adaptation in their use of creative engagement methods within place-based projects. We seek to explore the gap between theory and practice, and to create a space for constructive reflection.