ABSTRACT
The purpose of the research project was to understand and reconceptualise the practice and process of placemaking through a participative and social practice arts lens, as social practice placemaking, a term created and introduced in the research project, and to explore its production of agency for protagonists in relation to place. This research project was concerned with how social practice placemaking contributes to the strategies urban dwellers use to understand and enact their lived experience, often through informal design processes, with an aim to inform intra-city communities' dialogue i.e. the conversation between citizens at the grassroots and with those in decision-making positions. This chapter presents the research project within various fields of theory, relating to the city, space and place, the lived experience of the city and of place attachment. It also presents the case studies and gives the demographic context that the arts projects and organisations were operative in.
