Brady Public Humanities Archive
What is the Brady Public Humanities Archive?

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.

What can I do with the Brady Public Humanities Archive?
  • 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.

Project Counter: 69

This archive is constantly growing with new placemaking projects worldwide. View all the placemaking projects currently in the archive below.

Featured Project

Khao San Road

"Khao San" translates as "milled rice", is a short street in central Bangkok, Thailand indicating its history as the street was a major rice market in Bangkok. In the last 40 years, the road has developed into a world-famous "backpacker ghetto", offering cheap accommodations. As said by Anders Sørensen (Annals of Tourism Research): "In this small area one can observe the interactions and groupings of disparate characters such as un-educated …