Cultivating Neighborhood Shalom
Chris Elisara, Studio Lead and Senior Fellow for Placemaking at Ormond Center
Episode 3 - Can you really make a place?
Isn’t place just the given context in which we pursue our mission, or is it possible to make places? In this episode Eric and Sara Joy contend that placemaking is possible and give some ideas of how to go about it as individuals and as congregations.
In continuation of the conversation about place with Chris Elisara at Ormond Center they also consider the various ways we impact the places we live, work, play, and worship. Placemaking can sound like an abstract concept, but it is essentially helping our places become places worth caring about. They believe that anyone or any church can engage in placemaking.
Links to resources and terms from this episode:
Articles, Books, Media, & organizations
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
Redemptive Placemaking Toolkit: Discerning your church's mission in the built environment by Sara Joy Proppe & Edward Dunar
Tactical Urbanism by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia
Seaside City of Ideas - a documentary film about the making of Seaside, FL and the community design intentions behind this New Urbanist town
Parish Collective - an organization connecting people to be the church in the neighborhood
Placemakers - a group of planners, urban designers, form-based code wranglers, storytellers, advisors and advocates working on making places
Project for Public Spaces - an organization bringing public spaces to life by planning and designing them with the people who use them every day
Proximity Project - a consulting and education firm that helps churches align their mission with their property assets for the flourishing of their neighborhood
Key Terms
Place
Placemaking
Tactical Urbanism