Heritage Placemaking through the Arts

This research explores the intersection of arts and heritage practices in enhancing historic sites’ preservation, memory, and community vitality. It examines how arts-based initiatives engage with collective memory, address narratives of trauma, combat erasure, and foster community collaboration in co-producing heritage and creative practices.

Guiding Questions

How do intangible and tangible heritage practices intersect?
How do the arts enhance the experience, memory, and preservation of historic sites and spaces?
How do the arts revitalize and maintain community vitality through creative placemaking and tradition building?
How do the arts engage collective memories of troubled history and sites of trauma?
How do the arts battle erasure of threatened communities and places?
How do arts and heritage practices negotiate conflicting narratives and perspectives among varying communities?
How does heritage inform new creative practices?
How are communities engaged in the co-production of arts and heritage research and practice with artists and academics?