ABSTRACT
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
part Section 1|71 pages
Understanding and Developing Our Trauma-in-Place Sensitivity
chapter 1|10 pages
Towards Trauma-informed Placemaking
chapter 6|12 pages
Landscapes of Repair
chapter 7|12 pages
The Filipino Spirit is [Not] Waterproof
part Section 2|93 pages
Exploring the Dimensions of Trauma-Informed Placemaking
chapter 9|7 pages
Beyond Dark Tourism
chapter 10|11 pages
Equitable Food Futures
part Section 3|102 pages
Crafting Spaces of Resilience and Restoration
chapter 18|12 pages
Abandoned Landscapes as Places of Potential for Nature Therapy
chapter 19|12 pages
The Promise of Trauma-Informed Migrant Placemaking
chapter 21|10 pages
Wanna Dance?
chapter 22|10 pages
Healing From Trauma in Post-disaster Places?
chapter 23|13 pages
Placemaking, Performance and Infrastructures of Belonging
part Section 4|83 pages
Our Call to Action
chapter 27|9 pages
Where Healing Happens
chapter 31|11 pages
A Reconciliation Framework for Storytelling
chapter 32|11 pages
Allowing a Conversation To Go Nowhere To Get Somewhere
part |8 pages
Closing Remarks