Led by Emily Blumenfeld with Olivia Georgia from City as Living Laboratory and Damian Griffin from the Bronx River Alliance
In the funding world, Creative Placemaking is trending. But in the art world, "placemaking" itself is a problematic term because it can also refer to development. This conversation points us toward three terms: place making, place taking, and place keeping. Which one is at work in any given context? Who is doing the making, what is the motivation? As we consider placemaking in collaboration with the waterways other questions come up as well: what’s worth keeping, what’s worth changing, what’s worth making anew? How does our work intersect with both environmental and economic justice?
