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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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:

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:

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