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[Slideshow HESPR News Alert – Special Feature Marcel Breuer by unknown – immediate source Robert F Gatje and the Bauhaus Archive]
IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the IHBC in Designing Buildings with Reinier de Graaf in Dezeen confessing: ‘I have no idea what placemaking is’.
… The word….does not feature in any English dictionary…
Reinier de Graaf writes in Dezeen:
Discussions about planning and urbanism are awash with talk of ‘placemaking’ but the term remains strangely and troublingly opaque, writes Reinier de Graaf.
UK housing secretary Michael Gove is backing the creation of a new ‘School of Place’….Edinburgh Council has invited the public to participate in a ‘placemaking consultation’….
I have a confession to make: I have no idea what ‘placemaking’ is….The word, for one, does not feature in any English dictionary…
What most attempts at describing placemaking disturbingly have in common is that rather than tell us about placemaking, they mostly seem to argue for placemaking, without ever properly revealing why….
I too, have done projects under the guise of placemaking. Mea culpa. I’ve sat through hours and hours of planning sessions dedicated to the subject… I wonder if that is… a lack of definition that enables a consensus between opposing interest, one that frees people from having to see eye-to-eye and allows business to continue as usual….
Read more and listen to the story…
DB features:
- Our Guest Editor slot with IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly: From conservation to cars, construction to carbon, training and reassessing value…
- Welcome session for new members on Zoom, 12-1pm
- IHBC London Conference/ Ash Sakula sponors, October 3
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