ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a typology of art practices and processes found in placemaking (Courage 2017), offering examples of each and a critique of the role of arts in the wider placemaking endeavour. Arts-led placemaking is understood as an art form that dematerialises the built object and is concerned with creative and social processes and outcomes, and that challenges the binary and linear notion of authorship and audience found in normative placemaking. It addresses issues of the urban city space as a place of co-production, constructive of new spatial configurations and emergent relations between users and space. The chapter will go on to consider the outcomes of arts-led placemaking, principally the (re)creation of place identity and increased levels of place attachment and civic engagement, conceptualising arts-led placemaking activity as the logical extension of urban arts practice.
