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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Donaukanal
The Donaukanal is actually a decent-sized channel that breaks off from the mighty Danube at the northwest entrance to Vienna, curves around the edge of the old town, and then continues out to the far east of the city where it rejoins the main river. Since it looks rather like a river and passes through the centre of Vienna, many mistake the Donaukanal for the Danube proper. Regardless, the channel’s …