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On 11/10/2015 00:00, "Live Art, Performance Art and New Performance on behalf of LIVEART automatic digest system" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: >There is 1 message totaling 74 lines in this issue. > >Topics of the day: > > 1. CfP - Creative Placemaking and Beyond: Continuing and >re-invigorating the > arts-led conversation > >***You may leave the LIVEART list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF >LIVEART" >command to [log in to unmask] > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:48:04 +0100 >From: Cara Courage <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CfP - Creative Placemaking and Beyond: Continuing and >re-invigorating the arts-led conversation > >* This email is sent via the Liveart mail-list. 'Reply' will send your >response to that list * > >Convenors: Cara Courage, University of Brighton and Anita McKeown, >SMARTlab, University College Dublin. > >This session will continue the interrogation of notions of creative >placemaking started at the RGS 2015 annual conference, aiming to take >this conversation to the US and broaden international and >sectora/practice discussion. > >The creative placemaking (Landesman 2009) term has entered the >arts-driven placemaking sector narrative presented as a Œnew [U.S.] >policy platform across all levels of government¹ (Markusen and Gadwa >2010:26) with a particular ethos; a cross-sectoral approach to arts-led >regeneration (Markusen and Gadwa 2010) and of including non-arts >stakeholders within community revitalisation (Poticha, 2011). > >With contemporary debates around creative placemaking and its relations >now reaching a moment in maturity and diversity a critique and a deeper >understanding of practice is necessary. > >Persistent questions arise around issues of arts practice/process, power >relations, individual and community agency and creative placemaking¹s >relation vis-à-vis the neoliberal. As such, this session encourages a >re-consideration of the role of the arts and creativity within >socially-engaged placemaking practices for their potential to encourage >self-organisation and how citizens can take the initiative in effecting >their lived spacetime (McCormack 2013). It seeks to broaden the >constituents in the creative placemaking discourse through presenting an >international conversation that focuses on socially practiced, >co-produced and citizen-led placemakings, addressing issues of scale, >interdisciplinarity and radical practices within creative place >production and co-production. > >Given the vital need also for theorists to be in dialogue with >practitioners, this session is seeking abstracts from both >constituencies, with papers spanning theory and practice and examples of >where the two intersect in the academy or in the field. It thus aims to >provide a critical assessment of creative placemaking and of community >driven placemaking (Hou and Rios 2003) and social design across all >settlement types and conceptual, empirical, methodological papers papers >are invited. > >Papers might address, but are not limited to: > >€ Challenges to the concepts of creative placemaking and citizen-driven >placemaking >€ Examination and re-imagination of radical practices within arts-led >community regeneration. >€ The role of the individual and the artist/practitioner and other >professionals in Œopen source¹ placemaking >€ Performing and un-performing place >€ Systemic approaches to creative placemaking and Place-based design - >Dealing with complexity. >€ The role of administrations and policy development effected by >grassroots placemakings >€ The personal is political behavourial related interventions of >placemaking beyond party political agendas. > >Please submit an abstract for consideration, of no more than 250 words, >by 25th October, to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] >Successful applicants will be informed by 27th October for their timely >registration to AAG 2016. > >***You may leave the LIVEART list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF >LIVEART" >command to [log in to unmask] > >------------------------------ > >End of LIVEART Digest - 9 Oct 2015 to 10 Oct 2015 (#2015-88) >************************************************************ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan