ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study on 'The Big Car', which is of key significance to issues of the artist as leader and the role of social practice placemaking in regeneration. It considers the role of the artist as leader, and the aspects of collaborative practice. The chapter then considers social practice placemaking: first, with regards to social cohesion; second, with a discussion of place identity; and third, as arts-led regeneration. It explores the modes of the organisation's approach to its placemakings, explored through the collaborative dynamic, access to the arts and social justice concerns, and the disposition and role of the artist. The chapter includes notions of the self in place attachment brings the text more explicitly to place identity and focuses on the case of Indianapolis as an example of a manifestation of and shift in place identity.
