Do you use creative practices to enliven and animate specific places or spaces?
The Understanding Place and Community masterclass will use accessible creative techniques and critical exercises to give you new tools for asking questions about how power works in your neighbourhood and the spaces around you, and how this may affect your place-based cultural work.
This workshop is for artists, creative practitioners and cultural producers who are working at a place-based or hyper-local level and are looking to develop new tools to support communities they work with and build a more equitable practice.
You might be working with practices such as outdoor arts, site-specific theatre, community-based practice, environmental or ecological art, urban or rural public art and placemaking initiatives.
Attendees will gain an understanding of –
How place and space are socially constructed at the intersections of power.
Conceptual mapping tools to better understand place at a hyper-local level.
Asset-based approaches to understanding place and community.
The potential of mobilising community knowledge in place-based creative work to enact community-led change.
Event Date: Thursday 9th July 2026
Categories: 2026 | Community & Participation
