ILI CPD Webinar | Placemaking: What it is, and what it isn't by Thorsten Peters

Placemaking: What it is, and what it isn't

1-2pm Thursday 8 May 2025

This high level presentation provides an overview of Placemaking applied to urban regeneration projects.

Placemaking is the holistic approach of multi-disciplinary collaboration, with and by the community and stakeholders, along an iterative process.
Placemaking is more than public consultation as it enables the public to take control and ownership of an open-ended outcome.
Placemaking is more than urban design as it focusses the hearts and minds on relationships and activities rather than the physical design
Placemaking is conversation, communication, collaboration, facilitation and advocacy, for a road map that leads to an action plan.
Placemaking is the suitable approach for interventions that are neither simple nor complicated, but complex - our towns and cities are complex organisms.
Placemaking is not an end-to-finish linear project line with defined outcomes and a finite design.
Placemaking is not a Masterplan.
Placemaking acknowledges that the community is the expert, and that we are never finished.

Biography

Urbanist Thorsten Peters is a trained architect and urban designer with a focus on Sustainable Development and 25 years+ experience in Ireland and the EU.