A collaborative digital space, this archive showcases cultural public interventions across the world.
As communities grapple with solutions to wicked problems, the places that people inhabit are in constant revision and reconstruction. The connection between culture and
place is one that has been examined via several theoretical lenses in myriad disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences by theorists such as:
Jane Jacobs, Pierre Nora, Judith Butler, Henry Lefebvre, Homi Bhabha and more.
- You are invited to collaborate to the creation of the toolkit by submitting your instructional materials for review.
- You have access to a growing record of placemaking and public projects around the world today.
- You are invited to submit the placemaking / cultural public interventions that you have documented.
- You have access to a toolkit of instructional materials, which can be used in K-16 classrooms.
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Featured Project
Kunst Haus Wien (Museum Hundertwasser)
The museum, designed by artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, exhibits contemporary art with a primary focus on ecology. It follows Hundertwasser's ideas of ecology and sustainability. Hundertwasser said that the museum is “a stronghold against the false order of the straight line, a bastion against the grid system and the chaos of nonsense” (Kunsthauswien). He wanted to create something that did not follow a rigid structure because he believed that art should …