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Arts and cultural initiatives in societies don’t only promote social well-being, but they are indispensable elements of social well-being. Just as you can’t strip out health or housing or transportation from social well-being, neither you can remove the arts. The built environment can contribute to a more equal, inclusive and cohesive society if the places where we live, the facilities we use and our community meeting places are designed to be accessible and inclusive. The Aim of this paper is to highlight engaged creative placemaking as a tool in creating places with everyone in mind. Covid-19 crisis which spotlighted the inequality and inaccessibility of a national culture to the idea of using public spaces. People cannot simply enjoy public spaces because they are either private or owned by the government. How can this change, the main research question of this paper is: “How can creative placemaking through community-led design exist to generate the resilient communities we dream of”? Methods used in the paper are based on multidisciplinary literature studies and detailed case studies of walls of connection project from 2017 till now and Asphalt art project 2021–2023 that shows how to improve civic-participation in our societies by analyzing the role of engaged creative placemaking as an enabling tool, creating a linkage between placemaking theory and practice. This linkage is due to studies that found how spatial planning and creative design be hand in hand through the design process, to stimulate the ideas of successful creative placemaking in the built environment to enhance social integration in open urban spaces. This paper offers a review that illustrates a re-orientation of engaged placemaking from being focused on physical (spatial) change of the environment (product oriented) created by designers (e.g. architects, spatial planners) towards placemaking as an enabling tool to be used by planners to facilitate the making of places by numerous people/role-players outside the planning profession.
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Elhalawany, N.M.B., Gabr, H.S., Abdelghaffar, A.M. (2023). Exploring Theories of Social Inclusivity and Creative Placemaking Analyzing Engaged Creative-Placemaking in Different Case Studies. In: Kostopoulou, S., Herrera-Franco, G., Wood, J., Al-Kodmany, K. (eds) Cities’ Vocabularies and the Sustainable Development of the Silkroads. SRSTDCH 2021. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31027-0_6
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