Trauma Informed Placemaking

Cara Courage, Anita McKeown

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032443096
• eBook ISBN: 9781040017746
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Human Geography

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Original Frameworks, Toolkits and Learning Exercises
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Presentation of Abstracts by Curated Section
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Preface
• Notes to The Text
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Pathways to a Praxis
• Section 1 Understanding and Developing Our Trauma-in-Place Sensitivity
• 1 Towards Trauma-informed Placemaking: Mutual Aid, Collective Resistance and an Ethics of Care
• 2 (em)Placing Trauma: The Wounds Among Us
• 3 The DMZ and the Laundry: Lessons From K-drama for Trauma-Informed Placemaking
• 4 Flying, Fleeing, and Hanging on: Trauma Baggage at Airports
• 5 Trauma: The Counterproductive Outcome of the Land Restitution Program
• 6 Landscapes of Repair: Creating a Transnational Community of Practice with Sheffield- and Kosovo-based Researchers, Artists and Civil Society on Post-traumatic Landscapes
• 7 The Filipino Spirit is [Not] Waterproof: Creative Placeproofing in Post-Disaster Philippines
• Section 2 Exploring the Dimensions of Trauma-Informed Placemaking
• 8 Ethical Placemaking, Trauma, and Health Justice in Humanitarian Settings
• 9 Beyond Dark Tourism: Reimagining the Place of History at Australia’s Convict Precincts
• 10 Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi
• 11 Language Is Leaving Me: An AI Cinematic Opera of The Skin
• 12 Trauma and Healing in the Post-conflict Landscape of Belfast
• 13 Anticolonial Placemaking
• 14 Placehealing in Minneapolis: Before and After the Murder of George Floyd
• 15 Our Place, Our History, Our Future
• Advice for Practitioners
• Section 3 Crafting Spaces of Resilience and Restoration
• 16 Trauma-Informed Placemaking: In Search of an Integrative Approach
• 17 Theorizing Disappearance in Narrative Ecologies as Trauma-Informed Placemaking
• 18 Abandoned Landscapes as Places of Potential for Nature Therapy: Glendalough, Ireland
• 19 The Promise of Trauma-Informed Migrant Placemaking: Arts-based Strategies for Compassion and Resilience
• 20 Painting Back: Creative Placemaking in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley
• 21 Wanna Dance?: Using Creative Placemaking Value Indicators to Identify COVID-lockdown-related Solastalgia in Sydney, Australia
• 22 Healing From Trauma in Post-disaster Places?: Placemaking, Machizukuri and the Role of Cultural Events in Post-Disaster Recovery
• 23 Placemaking, Performance and Infrastructures of Belonging: The Role of Ritual Healing and Mass Cultural Gatherings in the Wake of Trauma
• 24 Rethinking Placemaking in Urban Planning Through the Lens of Trauma
• Section 4 Our Call to Action: Nurturing Healing Through Action
• 25 The Place Healing Manifesto
• 26 Leadership Horizons in Culture Futurism and Creative Placehealing
• IV. Practice Model: MOTIF Framework
• 27 Where Healing Happens: A Working Theory on Body, Relationship, and Intentional Structure for Restorative Placemaking
• 28 The Art of Place
• 29 Unravelling Memories: The Metaphor as a Possibility of Resilience
• 30 Healing Place: Creative Place-remaking for Reconstructing Community Identity
• 31 A Reconciliation Framework for Storytelling: A Trauma-Informed Placemaking Approach
• Understanding The Reconciliation Sense-Making Framework – Applications
• Identity and Immigration: Personal Application
• Conclusion
• References
• 32 Allowing a Conversation To Go Nowhere To Get Somewhere: Intra-personal Spatial Care and Placemaking
• Closing Remarks: Being Accountable as Placemakers
• Placemaking and the Manipur Conflict
• Index