ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a conclusion to the research project by way of synthesising the case study data according to the three research aims into three thematics: It examines the practice and process of performative arts–informed placemaking and its effect on the emplaced arts experience. The chapter focuses on what existing social practice arts and place thinking can contribute to performative arts–informed placemaking and this artform as a means of reinterpreting the urban public realm. The chapter explores the role of emplaced performative arts practice in shaping social cohesion, arts and civic participation and citizenship. It also focuses the case studies that presents a topophillic relation to place – the projects they were involved in were all working to positive goals and came from a positive motivation to improve place and social interrelations. The case studies in generalist terms expressed a topophillic relation to place and placemaking outcomes and outputs.
