There is a phenomenon of placelessness. Cities have look-alike landscapes. This sameness leads to a lack of significant places and a loss of sense of place. In addition to that, with the suburban sprawl and downtown deterioration, there is an increasing need for downtown revitalization. Cities call for vibrant and pleasant places with characters.In a world where most cities are getting more similar with each other and where people can't tell whom they are and where they come from, placemaking actions should be welcomed. Placemaking respects the genius of the place and finds links between traditions and our present experience of life.This thesis presents an overview of placemaking including its definition, history, categories, functions, principles and actions. Its purpose is to apply placemaking into the design of a city plaza in downtown Muncie to make a place that links people to history, to culture, and to other people. By doing that, this creative project tries to illustrate that placemaking is a valuable strategy in urban regeneration. / Department of Landscape Architecture

This thesis is concerned with placing public art within the broader modernist spatialisation of social relations. The research takes place around two related enquiries. The first emerges from questions raised by the art critic Rosalyn Deutsche with regard to the proposition that public art functions as both a profession and technology that attempts to pattern space so that docile and useful bodies are created by and deployed within it. Following such questions, this thesis seeks to scrutinise the ways in which discourses on public art might operate in enabling, maintaining or disrupting everyday practices and socio-spatial relations. Secondly, as a foray into methodologies of public art research, the thesis considers Foucauldian governmentality approaches in terms of what these might have to offer an investigation of public art. The thesis undertakes the analysis of a wide range of texts connected with three South Australian urban developments for which public art was separately proposed, designed, selected and installed. Attention is given principally to the Rundle Street Mall, a pedestrianised shopping street in the city-centre of Adelaide, examined at several moments throughout the period of its development (1972-1977) and later refurbishment (1996-2001). Also discussed are the Adelaide Festival Centre Plaza (1973-1977) and the Gateway to Adelaide (1996-2000), the latter project involving the reconstruction of a major traffic intersection on the outskirts of metropolitan Adelaide. Through these examples the thesis documents key debates in the history of Australian discourses concerning public art. In addition, this study brings attention to the relations between artwork and a proliferation of individuals, agencies, and other interests, highlighting the competitions over space, authority and expertise, and the often unexamined role that public art plays in maintaining or unsettling socio-spatial relations. Knowledge about public art, it is argued, is produced, transformed and deployed across a range of discursive sites (contemporary art, urban design, planning, transport and others) and becomes tied to specific problems of governing. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2008

This thesis is concerned with placing public art within the broader modernist spatialisation of social relations. The research takes place around two related enquiries. The first emerges from questions raised by the art critic Rosalyn Deutsche with regard to the proposition that public art functions as both a profession and technology that attempts to pattern space so that docile and useful bodies are created by and deployed within it. Following such questions, this thesis seeks to scrutinise the ways in which discourses on public art might operate in enabling, maintaining or disrupting everyday practices and socio-spatial relations. Secondly, as a foray into methodologies of public art research, the thesis considers Foucauldian governmentality approaches in terms of what these might have to offer an investigation of public art. The thesis undertakes the analysis of a wide range of texts connected with three South Australian urban developments for which public art was separately proposed, designed, selected and installed. Attention is given principally to the Rundle Street Mall, a pedestrianised shopping street in the city-centre of Adelaide, examined at several moments throughout the period of its development (1972-1977) and later refurbishment (1996-2001). Also discussed are the Adelaide Festival Centre Plaza (1973-1977) and the Gateway to Adelaide (1996-2000), the latter project involving the reconstruction of a major traffic intersection on the outskirts of metropolitan Adelaide. Through these examples the thesis documents key debates in the history of Australian discourses concerning public art. In addition, this study brings attention to the relations between artwork and a proliferation of individuals, agencies, and other interests, highlighting the competitions over space, authority and expertise, and the often unexamined role that public art plays in maintaining or unsettling socio-spatial relations. Knowledge about public art, it is argued, is produced, transformed and deployed across a range of discursive sites (contemporary art, urban design, planning, transport and others) and becomes tied to specific problems of governing. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2008

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The social and spatial dimensions of any settlement are widely recognised in the international literature as having been shaped notably by art in some of the so-called cities of art or culture, such as Florence, Venice and other, smaller cultural nodes around the world. Arts resources have an impact on the socio-spatial dimension of a locale in a multitude of ways, and an understanding thereof can be hugely beneficial to a town‟s development and success. When developed, utilised and protected correctly, the full positive effects of such resources can be achieved to stimulate an inclusive and diverse art town setting. The Western Cape town of Stellenbosch is reputed for its rich arts and cultural heritage, yet there has not been extensive academic research concerning the incidence and effects thereof. Hence, Stellenbosch provides a platform from which to study the socio-spatial influence that visual art brings about in the interplay between art, people and space. Enhanced planning and decision making can then be undertaken for the current and future protection and management of art resources, equipping Stellenbosch to be part of a world that is both a competitive global market and diverse sphere of social constructs and discourses. The exploration of notions such as commoditisation, the places and spaces of art, formal and informal public art, artwork defacement, and the sense of place brought about by the art in Stellenbosch to obtain an overarching impression of the nature and extent of the influences of art on the socio-spatial dimension was the primary aim of this study. A descriptive overview of the socio-spatialities brought about by art in the so-called art town of Stellenbosch is provided by utilising in-depth interviews in combination with a minor GIS component. This enables an overall view of the public perception of art in Stellenbosch, as well as a visual overview of the distribution of the available art resources, hence providing new attribute and spatial data that can inform future initiatives in the town. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die internasionale literatuur word die sosiale en ruimtelike dimensies van ‟n nedersetting wyd erken as deur kuns gevorm te wees in sommige sogenaamde stede van kuns of kultuur, soos Florence of Venesië, en ander, kleiner kulturele nodes regoor die wêreld. Kunsbronne het op ‟n magdom van maniere ‟n impak op die sosio-ruimtelike dimensie van ‟n land, en ‟n begrip daarvan is uiters voordelig vir ‟n dorp se ontwikkeling en sukses. Wanneer dié bronne toepaslik ontwikkel, benut en beskerm word, kan die volle positiewe uitwerking daarvan bereik word om ‟n inklusiewe en diverse kunsdorpomgewing te stimuleer. Die Wes-Kaapse dorp Stellenbosch is bekend vir sy ryk kuns- en kulturele erfenis, maar uitgebreide akademiese navorsing oor die voorkoms en gevolge daarvan is nog nie onderneem nie. Stellenbosch bied dus ‟n platform waarop die sosio-ruimtelike invloed van visuele kuns in die wisselwerking tussen kuns, mense en die ruimte bestudeer kan word. Verbeterde beplanning en besluitneming kan dan gedoen word vir die huidige en toekomstige beskerming en bestuur van kunsbronne, wat Stellenbosch sal toerus vir ‟n wêreld wat beide ‟n kompeterende globale mark en diverse terrein van sosiale konstrukte en diskoerse is. Die ondersoek van begrippe soos kommodifikasie, die plekke en ruimtes van kuns, formele en informele openbare kuns, kunswerkskending, en sin van plek wat deur die kuns in Stellenbosch teweeg gebring word, verskaf ‟n oorkoepelende indruk van die aard en omvang van die invloede van kuns op die sosio-ruimtelike dimensie, wat die primêre doel van hierdie studie was. ‟n Beskrywende oorsig van die sosio-ruimtelikheid wat deur kuns in die sogenaamde kunsdorp Stellenbosch teweeg gebring word, is verskaf deur gebruik te maak van in-diepte onderhoude in kombinasie met ‟n kleiner GIS-komponent. Dit lewer ‟n geheelbeeld van die openbare persepsie van kuns op Stellenbosch, sowel as ‟n visuele oorsig van die verspreiding van die kunsbronne wat beskikbaar is, wat dus nuwe attribuut- en ruimtelike data verskaf wat toekomstige inisiatiewe op die dorp kan inlig.

In this thesis I have studied the conflicts that arose in Vara when the municipality ordered a sculpture by the artist Katharina Grosse in collaboration with The National Swedish Public Art Council and the Swedish Transport Administration in 2012. The aim of the study is to analyze the meaning-making of the sculpture as a process determined by social negotiations concerning variables such as identity, societal hierarchies and education. The material is foremost consisting of interviews with employees from The National Swedish Public Art Council and Vara municipality, a local objector whom organized a protesting Facebook group and a local newspaper journalist. The material is analyzed with discourse theory in order to examine how the discourses about public art are characterized in a local context today and how its meaning continually is being constructed and reconstructed through this. By studying the resistance and critique against The Blue Orange in Vara as local fragments of a more global context the analysis also targets how the practices and meaning-making of art in the public domain are conditioned by political ideologies and societal structures such as the neoliberal market, economic growth and competition. The protesters and protagonists of the art work places the sculpture in different narratives about the municipality where the municipality is either described as something progressing; moving from a state where something is lacking, or as something with a fixed identity and already defined. The latter narrative is used by those who criticize the art work because it does not reflect their perceived shared identity while the former motivates the advocates who want to create a more distinct municipal identity, a branding of sorts, to attract tourists and stimulate economic growth. These narratives demonstrates how debates revolving art works and the public domain can bring up articulations and everyday experiences of power structures, citizenship and societal norms.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o significado das obras de arte pública permanentes, comissionadas pela 5.ª Bienal do Mercosul, em Porto Alegre, entre 2004 e 2006, sob o prisma das questões da site-specificity e/ou place-specificity. As esculturas de Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross e Waltercio Caldas, são tomadas como estudo de caso para a discussão dessas questões, ou seja, para investigar as possibilidades de transformação de um local (espaço físico) em lugar (local dotado de significados), por meio de obras de arte projetadas especificamente com esse objetivo. / The paper aims at searching for the meaning of perennial public artworks done under the 5th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2004-2006) order, looking at the issues of site-specificity and/or place-specificity. Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross and Waltercio Caldas’s sculptures are the case study for the debate of such issues. Investigating the possibility of transforming spaces into sites through the placement of artworks produced for that purpose.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o significado das obras de arte pública permanentes, comissionadas pela 5.ª Bienal do Mercosul, em Porto Alegre, entre 2004 e 2006, sob o prisma das questões da site-specificity e/ou place-specificity. As esculturas de Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross e Waltercio Caldas, são tomadas como estudo de caso para a discussão dessas questões, ou seja, para investigar as possibilidades de transformação de um local (espaço físico) em lugar (local dotado de significados), por meio de obras de arte projetadas especificamente com esse objetivo. / The paper aims at searching for the meaning of perennial public artworks done under the 5th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2004-2006) order, looking at the issues of site-specificity and/or place-specificity. Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross and Waltercio Caldas’s sculptures are the case study for the debate of such issues. Investigating the possibility of transforming spaces into sites through the placement of artworks produced for that purpose.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o significado das obras de arte pública permanentes, comissionadas pela 5.ª Bienal do Mercosul, em Porto Alegre, entre 2004 e 2006, sob o prisma das questões da site-specificity e/ou place-specificity. As esculturas de Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross e Waltercio Caldas, são tomadas como estudo de caso para a discussão dessas questões, ou seja, para investigar as possibilidades de transformação de um local (espaço físico) em lugar (local dotado de significados), por meio de obras de arte projetadas especificamente com esse objetivo. / The paper aims at searching for the meaning of perennial public artworks done under the 5th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2004-2006) order, looking at the issues of site-specificity and/or place-specificity. Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross and Waltercio Caldas’s sculptures are the case study for the debate of such issues. Investigating the possibility of transforming spaces into sites through the placement of artworks produced for that purpose.

Ao final do ano de 98, do século passado, um coletivo de pessoas ligadas à produção teatral passou a se reunir semanalmente na cidade de São Paulo para pensar a função e o papel do teatro diante do quadro político que se desenhava, um ambiente de aprofundamento de políticas de orientação neoliberal iniciadas no governo Collor e que começavam a ganhar força com a eleição de Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) em seu primeiro mandato como presidente do Brasil. Passados seis meses do encontro inicial, o grupo chegou à formulação de um texto síntese das ideias debatidas naquele período. Esse documento recebeu o nome de Manifesto Arte Contra a Barbárie, nome pelo qual o grupo ficou conhecido. Durante a trajetória da pesquisa pudemos tomar contato com documentos que davam conta de que logo após o lançamento do Primeiro Manifesto iniciou-se uma considerável participação feminina nos encontros, impulsionando as atividades de discussão e a formação de grupos de trabalho. Ocorre que a maior parte dos relatos sobre o Arte Contra a Barbárie, aos quais tive acesso, dão conta de que era um grupo formado por homens. Esses relatos acabam por passar a impressão de que as mulheres não tinham uma participação ativa em todo o processo, ou mesmo que sua participação era restringida. A dissertação tem como objetivo primeiro registrar a participação feminina nesse processo de luta que acabou por mobilizar inúmeras pessoas em busca da conquista de políticas públicas para a produção cultural. Já o segundo objetivo é identificar indícios de ações, mecanismos ou estruturas que possam ter resultado em uma invisibilização das contribuições dessas figuras femininas nas lutas políticas e sociais importantes, como o processo que levou à conquista da lei que criou o Programa de Fomento ao Teatro para a Cidade de São Paulo / At the end of the year 98, in the last century, a collective of people related to the theater production gathered weekly in the city of São Paulo to think about the function and the role of theater in the face of the political framework that was being developed, of neoliberal orientation policies initiated in the Collor government and that were beginning to gain strength by electing Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) in his first term as president of Brazil. After six months of the initial meeting of the group, the group put together a summarized text of the ideas debated in that period. This document was named Manifesto Arte contra a Barbárie, name by which the group became known. During the course of the research, I was able to examine documents that showed that soon after the launch of the first manifesto a considerable amount of female participation in the meetings began, encouraging discussion activities and the formation of working groups. It turns out that most of the reports on the Arte Contra Barbarie, to which I had access, treated the group as one formed only by men, and these reports end up giving the impression that women did not have an active participation in the whole process, or even that their participation was restricted. The dissertation aims first at registering the female participation in this process of struggle that ended up mobilizing countless people in search of gaining public policies for cultural production. The second objective is to identify indications of actions, mechanisms or structures that may have resulted in the invisibility of the contributions of these female figures in important political and social struggles, such as the process that led to the achievement of the law that created the Programa de Fomento ao teatro para a cidade de São Paulo