ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents approaches and practices that have moved away from the popularly attributed elements of creative placemaking—of monumental artworks and artists' live-work spaces and the like—to more diverse practices and voices that both offer sector critique and development. It argues for how creative placemaking can offer avenues for understanding, galvanising and expressing place identity and place attachment through individual, cultural, social and material articulations of psychosocial processes. The book also presents practitioner-led expansion of the potential of creative placemaking, drawing on this established legacy and integrating the arts, creativity and the role and value of creative knowledge and skills that is found within suburbs, villages, rural areas and cyberspace. It introduces an array of contemporary creative professional practices and approaches, illustrating the diverse skillset necessary for interdisciplinary practices and complex contexts that engage with issues of social and environmental justice.
