{"id":30,"date":"2019-12-04T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2019-12-05T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:42:17","slug":"art-of-placemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/art-of-placemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Placemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have\nyou ever wondered why you prefer to hang out some place but not others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\na city resident I often find myself migrating to my usual hangout to walk the\ndog, catch some outdoors or meet up with a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\noften try to remind myself that I should venture outside of my comfort zone\nmore. But there is more to your local comfort zone than just familiarity. I\nbegan to ask myself what and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public\nPlacemaking is something I am hearing and taking notice of more and more. A\ncreative way to reconnect your community. Placemaking&nbsp;capitalises on a\nlocal community&#8217;s assets, inspiration, and potential, with the intention of\ncreating public spaces that promote people&#8217;s health, happiness, and well being.\nPlacemaking is nothing new. Councils and developers have been creating these\nenvironments with parks and public spaces for years. Its only recently around\nmy city I am noticing more attention is being taken to create these mini\ncommunity places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nsometimes inadvertently these places create themselves. Abandoned buildings and\nindustrial sites often have an atmosphere begging to be discovered. All it\ntakes is creative input and some art to pull together the trendiest locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\nmy Street Art tours I sometimes take people down alleyways and laneways. Places\nquite often many people would not usually venture. Most people are surprised at\nwhat they find. I love exploring abandoned places. Graffiti and street art\namongst the harsh industrial backdrop provokes beautiful urban space. Add the\nsmell of coffee and the lour of music and the place,&nbsp;transforms an\nabandoned crack den to somewhere even the coolest hipster would be willing to\nhang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gentrification is welcomed as a \u2018cleaning-up\u2019 of suburbs. But how much cleaning up should we do before the atmosphere needed to encourage community gets lost? Creating pleasurable public spaces is more than cleaning, renovating and infiltration of expensive eateries for the well-off to enjoy.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Tramsheds comes to mind).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> We need the diversity, creativity, inspiring atmosphere, community assets and potential for it to thrive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tramsheds.jpg?resize=525%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" width=\"525\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tramsheds.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tramsheds.jpg?resize=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more to your local comfort zone than just familiarity. 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