Placemaking
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4
- Convenor: to be confirmed
- Assessment: a 15-minute recorded podcast discussion (30%) and 2000-word essay (70%)
Module description
In this module we explore placemaking to understand how the human experience is imagined, constructed, organised and felt.
We explore placemaking through historical, structural or situated conditions such as home, work, play, disaster and conflict, focusing on how depictions and formulations of place contribute to the production of identities, communities and environments. By examining case studies drawn from literature, film, archaeology, classics, contemporary history, theatre and digital culture, we will explore how place constitutes and signifies layers of memory, trauma, banality and the sacred. In highlighting how the arts and humanities can help us better understand the importance of place in contemporary cultural, social and political life, you will learn to communicate, collaborate and identify problems associated with our relationship to place.
Indicative syllabus
- Theorising placemaking
- Home
- Work
- Play
- Digital
- Border
- Transition
- Disaster
- Conflict
- Margins
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- use concepts and theories around place, space and locality to understand and contextualise exemplary texts or phenomena relevant to the arts and humanities
- communicate, collaborate and identify problems associated with historical and contemporary relationships to place
- identify how theoretical concepts and real-world examples are interconnected and be able to reflect on these interconnections in audiovisual and/or written form
- demonstrate an ability to plan and curate a conversation around academic readings.