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Creative Placemaking ideas​

Poetry
  • Chalk poetry events 
  • Poetry is for the birds – put poetry in the trees
  • Poetry slams
  • Poetry on the streets
  • Poetry writing on buses
  • Poetry circles
  • Incorporating poetry into murals or other large works
  • Poetry wall – where people can add to poems
Theatre
  • Productions in the park
  • Improvisation shows
Art
  • Cleaning up debris from a park and then creating art with found pieces
  • Decorating benches
  • Murals
  • Graffiti parks
  • Painting stairways / musical stairways
  • Planting flowers 
  • Painting crosswalks / walkways
  • Creating “haunted houses” or art spaces out of abandoned buildings
  • Moss graffiti
  • Pumpkin decorating contests
  • Art demonstrations
  • Sidewalk chalking 
Sculpture
  • Sculptural Playgrounds
  • Floating sculptures in water
  • Forest sculptures 
  • Living sculpture
  • Yarn bombing
  • Bike racks
  • artistic benches
Festivals/Events
  • Rubber duck races   
  • Any type of theatre in the park
  • Book/poetry reading
  • Side walk sales
  • Junk boat races 
  • Music festivals
  • Buskers night
  • Music on the patio concert series
  • Outdoor dancing / square dancing
  • Formal tea party
  • Locally brewed beer festival
  • Utilizing free indoor spaces
  • Star gazing
  • Radical art! – it’s not very radical if we tell you what to do
  • Doodle contests
  • Quick art contest 
  • Covering playgrounds with art, interactive art
  • Sand sculptures
  • Puppet shows
  • Children’s story readings
  • Movies in the park
  • Take a picture, leave a picture​
“It’s Placemaking, not Placemade. It’s a process. You are never finished.”
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—Place Governance working group

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“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”
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—Jane Addams

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    • #LansingPlacemakers
    • 75 Place Ideas
    • "Our Lansing"
    • "​It Takes All Our Voices"
    • "Where You At?"
    • Funding
  • Past Summits
    • 2015
    • 2016
    • 2017
    • 2018