What does it mean to have a Certification in Creative Placemaking?

What does it mean to have a Certification in Creative Placemaking?

The Ohio State University


The fast-growing field of creative placemaking – a new way to engage arts and culture for community improvement -- offers a lot of opportunities for urban planners and designers.  More than 1,300 communities in the US are pursuing it and more than two dozen foundations, government agencies and banks support this work.

Anyone can claim they are a ‘creative placemaker.’  The next Certification in Creative Placemaking class – which begins August 25th -- can help you stand out.  This unique online program from The Ohio State University’s City and Regional Planning section and The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking can help you build a broad and deep set of knowledge and skills, and give you the opportunity to work on a creative placemaking project.  And you can join an international community of graduates who work in the arts, urban planning or public affairs.  Also, you can get 18 AICP Certification Maintenance credits.

In this program, you can learn arts-based community and economic development, cost-effective analytical techniques, how to engage and motivate teams and communities, site planning for cultural uses, and destination marketing.  You also build collaborative, entrepreneurial leadership skills. The instructors are leading practitioners and thinkers in the field.  Through a capstone studio and project, you can come away with a plan, proposal or study to help a community – and your career.

"I highly recommend the Certification Program; through this program, I have been able to successfully leverage the knowledge I have gained to influence how key decisions are made about economic development throughout the state of Arizona, and in particular, the Verde Valley in northern Arizona. I have been invited to speak about our community's success and this topic around the state through AZ Town Hall and through the Arizona Association for Economic Development.  As a result, I have also been asked to form the Verde Valley Arts Council as a subsidiary of the Cottonwood Economic Development Council. 

Juliana Brutsche, Director of Development, AZ Culture

Learn more at http://go.osu.edu/CreativePlacemaking

Please join the next information session August 11, 6 pm eastern.  Register for the session at:

http://knowlton.osu.edu/certification-creative-placemaking/information-sessions

Posted July 23, 2015



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