New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities
As interest in measuring and understanding the impact of arts investments in community development continues to grow, a new study released today, Setting the Stage for Community Change: Reflecting on Creative Placemaking Outcomes, offers insights for the field of "creative placemaking" and is a working illustration of what can and can't be learned from different impact-measurement approaches.
Commissioned by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation and led by Slover Linett Audience Research, the multi-year (2013–2016), mixed-method study was designed to explore whether and how permanent outdoor Levitt music venues are bringing about change in the communities in which they operate...