Discover how communities and stakeholders can come together to make and shape loveable public places.

What You'll Learn

This professional development aims to equip participants with the skills and knowledge required for place managers and placemaking professionals.

At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

Understand different approaches in Placemaking

Apply Placemaking techniques in different planning situations

Engage stakeholders in Placemaking activities

201 series:

201-A Placemaking Design Thinking
Date: 12-14 July 2023
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. 

201-B Placemaking Stakeholder Engagement
Date: 7-8 August 2023
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.

In the course, participants will explore case studies in industries from past and present stakeholder perspectives, with emphasis on current positive outcomes and pitfalls to avoid. They will share also insights and practices learned from the case studies.

201-C Placemaking for City Spaces
Date: 17-18 July 2023
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

The course includes both academic/conceptual insights as well as practical case studies of Asian and Western cities, ensuring that participants have a thorough awareness of the processes, opportunities, and challenges in urban placemaking.

201-D Placemaking Event Management & Marketing
Date: 17-18 April 2023
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. 

Participants will study the events landscape in Singapore and competitive markets in the region and apply the process of developing and planning events that will shape the event space.

201-E Digital Placemaking
Date: 16-17 October 2023
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.

of urban contexts

The course includes both academic/conceptual insights as well as practical case studies of Asian and Western cities, ensuring that participants have a thorough awareness of the processes, opportunities, and challenges in urban placemaking.

201-F Place Economics
Date: 23-24 November 2023
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.

The course also covers ideas for maximising economic benefits while minimising costs in placemaking. Participants will be exposed to economic trade-offs that must be properly assessed in placemaking.

301 series:

301-A Placemaking Contract Management
Date: 4-8 September 2023
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.

301-B Placemaking Project Management
Date: 18-22 November 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. We also cover basic theories of project planning, scheduling, cost estimates and budgeting, resource allocation, monitoring and control and risk assessment.