Online Placemaking Training Courses
Placemaking.Education is the place to learn about placemaking.
Placemaking sounds like a buzzword, but it is actually a vital and practical way to create successful, resilient places, empowered citizens and more connected communities.
Town Team Movement and the global leader of the placemaking movement, PlacemakingX, have partnered to create the world’s first online education platform with structured training courses to help you learn more about placemaking.
We have collected and curated the most important placemaking concepts, tips and lessons learned into one place to make it easier and faster for you to learn.
Learn at your own pace, when you want, where you want!
Get a quick overview of what you might learn in the video below.
Online Placemaking Training Courses Currently Available
The free Placemaking in 12 Minutes course will provide you with a quick introduction to placemaking in just 12 minutes!
Time commitment:
About 12.5 minutes
Price: FREE
Start the crash course today!
https://www.placemaking.education/p/placemaking-in-12-minutes
This is a condensed version of the Introduction to Placemaking course.
4 online lessons
Time commitment:
Around 2 hours of learning and content, plus additional readings if you are keen
Price: $140 Australian dollars including GST.
Start learning today!
https://www.placemaking.education/p/introduction-to-placemaking-abridged
Learn the most important concepts in placemaking, plus the practical, street-level secrets from some of the leaders of the placemaking movement in Australasia.
9 online lessons
Time commitment:
Could take about 6 hours, but you can learn at your own pace. Plus complete tasks to embed and practice your knowledge.
Price: $275 Australian dollars including GST. This including a Certificate of Completion, endorsed by PlacemakingX and Town Team Movement!
Start learning today!
https://www.placemaking.education/p/introduction-to-placemaking
The Placemaking: making it happen in local governments online course provides ideas and tools for making it happen in a local government context.
9 online lessons
Time commitment:
Could take about 5 hours, but you can learn at your own pace. Plus complete tasks to embed and practice your knowledge.
Style: Online course. Learn at your own pace, when you want, where you want!
Price: $275 Australian dollars including GST. This including a Certificate of Completion, endorsed by PlacemakingX and Town Team Movement!
Start learning today!
What is placemaking?
Placemaking is a philosophy and an iterative, collaborative process for creating public spaces that people love and feel connected to.
Project for Public Spaces founded the placemaking approach in the 1990’s. PPS defines placemaking as:
“As both an overarching idea and a hands-on approach for improving a neighborhood, city, or region, placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. Strengthening the connection between people and the places they share, placemaking refers to a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value.
More than just promoting better urban design, placemaking facilitates creative patterns of use, paying particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social identities that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.
With community-based participation at its center, an effective placemaking process capitalizes on a local community’s assets, inspiration, and potential.”
Project for Public Spaces
Placemaking aims to improve not only the physical elements of a space, but also the way people think about and connect with the world around them.
Example of what you might learn at Placemaking.Education
Placemaking is often used as a “catch-all” term. This can make it confusing and difficult to understand.
Placemaking is a word used in a range of disciplines and contexts – planning, urban design, development, health, marketing, economic development, community development and more. As a philosophy and process, placemaking seeks to bring separated disciplines together to work for a common vision of creating better places.
We pull apart the components of ‘Place’ shown in the diagram below to better understand them. Providing more clarity can improve your understanding of the concept, which can then make it easier to implement.
https://www.placemaking.education/p/introduction-to-placemaking
