Anna Marazuela Kim Phd

Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities.

The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and of place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first- and third-person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented throughout. These are organised into four sections that lead the reader to an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field – how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place – and concludes with calls to action for the trauma-informed placemaking approach to be adopted.

This book will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested in people and places, from artists and architects, policy makers and planners, community development workers and organisations, placemakers, to local and national governments. It will appeal to the disciplines of human geography, sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology and to placemakers, planners and policymakers and those working in community development.

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Placemaking, performance and infrastructures of belonging: the role of ritual healing and mass cultural gatherings in the wake of trauma

Anna Marazuela Kim and Jacek Ludwig Scarso

Pandemic isolation, polarising politics, and growing disparity in the right to spatial goods and the public sphere, whether through borders of national control or global capitalism, continue to exert a profoundly detrimental effect on the infrastructures of belonging at the foundation of a healthy, inclusive society. They also diminish the psychological agency that would enable us to challenge these conditions. This article brings affect theory on depression as a public and political phenomenon into dialogue with placemaking's role in creating infrastructures of belonging, to consider how mass cultural gatherings in the urban context might foster the conditions for performing, and re-founding, the potential for inclusive, civic life.