Placemaking Design Thinking
Date: 28 Feb-1 Mar 2024
Duration: 3 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Designing the cities of our future. Learn how to apply artistic interventions to spark vitality and create places receptive to new ideas, creativity and social involvement by bringing new perspectives (beyond just aesthetics) to communities.
Placemaking Stakeholder Engagement
Date: 5-6 Aug 2024
Duration: 2 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Examine a wide variety of stakeholders and the roles they play in Placemaking and recognise how these stakeholders influence engagement significantly. Analyse the stakeholder contributions, associated challenges, and critique their value to the community.
Placemaking for City Spaces
Date: 16-17 May 2024
Duration: 2 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Reimagine everyday spaces. Dive deep into three key placemaking processes in urban and suburban spaces:
- Creative placemaking in arts, cultural and creative precincts
- Tourism placemaking in tourist attractions and leisure sites
- Tactical placemaking in a variety of urban contexts
Placemaking Event Management & Marketing
Duration: 2 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Understand the relationship between placemaking and events to bring communities together. Through events and marketing, learn more about how to bring diverse people together to improve the cultural, physical and social aspects of places.
Digital Placemaking
Duration: 2 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Enhance the experience of places through placemaking. The goal of digital placemaking in this course is to use location-specific digital technology to foster deeper relationships between people and the places they live. You will learn and apply the fundamentals like artificial intelligence, machine learning, classification, data processing and more.
Place Economics
Date: 18-19 Nov 2024
Duration: 2 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Working together to further develop and grow strong communities amongst local businesses and stakeholders. Through theories and case studies, participants will learn how placemaking can enable economic activity but also how negative forces (also known as externalities) can threaten the vitality of urban spaces.
Building and Sustaining Communities
Duration: 3 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Placemaking, from a social inclusion perspective, is an approach that puts the community front and centre of deciding how a place looks and how it functions. Acknowledging people’s sense of place and place identity, the approach involves an exploration of how the built environment provides a connection between physical locales and social needs.
Participatory Planning and Design
Date: 6-8, 13-14 May 2024
Duration: 5 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Projects with effective public participation and community engagement result in greater sense of ownership and identity of the community and build community bonds. This module introduces concepts and practices in participatory planning and design at various scales from masterplan to micro-placemaking scale, illustrated by case studies.
Placemaking Contract Management
Date: 9-11, 19-20 September 2024
Duration: 5 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Making partnerships work. The course’s goal is to provide course participants with an understanding of the various contract/dispute management methods available in Place Management and how to correctly apply them. Such compliance with contractual and statutory obligations will result in good management and prompt completion of the project while maintaining the working relationship between project parties.
Placemaking Project Management
Date: 23-27 September 2024
Duration: 5 Days | 9.00am to 5.30pm (Daily)
Prioritising on making places better for the people. Participants will gain an understanding of project management in the context of placemaking. It discusses how to use projects strategically as part of a corporate strategy, the project cycle in terms of conception, planning, execution and the factors that influence project success.
NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (NUS SCALE)
Tel: 6601 5610
Email: placemaking@nus.edu.sg