Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles: Artists and Communities Working Together

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Brettany Shannon David C. Sloane

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles

Artists and Communities Working Together

Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne Bray

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Routledge
05 December 2023

History of Art & Design Styles; Art Treatments & Subjects; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Development studies; Urban communities

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners’ equitable placekeeping efforts. A new concept, equitable placekeeping describes the inclination of historically marginalized community members to steward their neighborhood’s development, improve local amenities, engage in social and cultural production, and assert a mutual sense of self-definition—and the efforts of SEA artists to aid them.

Emerging from in-depth interviews with eight Southern California artists and teams, Co-Creative reveals how artists engage community members, sustain relationships, and defy the presumption that residents cannot speak for themselves. Drawing on these artists and theoretical analysis of their praxes, the book explicates equitable community engagement by exploring not just the creative projects but also the underlying phenomena that inspire and sustain them: community, engagement, relationships, and defiance. What further sets this book apart is how it deviates from the conventional who and what of SEA projects to foreground the how and the why that inspire and necessitate collectively creative action.

Co-Creative is for anyone studying arts-based community development and gentrification, given it complicates and enriches the current conversation about art’s undeniable and increasingly controversial role in neighborhood change. It will also be of interest to researchers and students of urban studies.

By: Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne Bray
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032461991
ISBN 10: 1032461993
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brettany Shannon, urban scholar, California State Polytechnic Institute, Pomona; California State University, Northridge; and Woodbury University. Shannon researches the intersection of art, technology, public space, and community participation. David C. Sloane, Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. Sloane studies evolving historical cultural landscapes and environmental inequities regarding mourning/commemoration, food systems, health care, and crime—all elements of our urban life. He is best recognized as a leading expert on the history and contemporary issues in mourning, commemoration, and public space. Anne Bray is a hybrid artist and founder/director of the public art organization LA Freewaves. She has instigated a series of projects in which artists and community residents interact and interchange perspectives on their worlds through art.