NEA Webcast on Creative Placemaking Now Available Online

 This panel discussion on the role of the arts and the creative community in creating livable, sustainable communities is now available at:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9570386

Panel participants include Richard Florida, author The Rise of the Creative Class and The Great Reset; Tim Jones, president & CEO of Toronto Artscape; Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas; Ann Markusen, director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute; and moderator Carol Coletta, CEO of CEOs for Cities.

Following are some of what I heard from the panel this afternoon:

• Creative Places/Spaces engender:
  • Optimism
  • Inspiration
  • Curiosity
  • Learning

Rick Lowe, Founder, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas

• Creativity is a major factor in growth and change in the world.

• Places that are truly creative have creativity that permeates all areas and levels. Arts and culture are strategic catalysts that can help inspire more people.

• People care about arts and culture. When you look at what gives people a good deal of happiness….the aesthetic sense of a place, creative places are multi-dimensional.

• It’s time to move beyond putting creativity and the arts on display. The real challenge of our time is to put creativity to work.

• We have to enhance the creative capacities of kids not destroy them.

Watch and listen. Let us know what you hear by going starting a discussion at:

http://mivpaa.blogspot.com/