critical place-making [score] by christian scott

This research catalogue exposition, becomes an exploration of place/place-making via critical reflection and engagement with methods. A review of placemaking from a personal perspective and narrative, from a site-responsive practice that involves walking, sound, poetry. —————————————————————————— what are the practices, and normative assumptions that lead the practices and policies of placemaking in Montreal—among planners, city officials, urban studios, non-profits. What is the role of play—as method—to make this processes more inclusive and diverse, in order to make more resilient and just cities.

i have slowly crafted and found 'my voice' in academia. One in which i can write poetically (bordering on 'creative writing'), and academically at the same time. Knowing well that i can situate myself in my writing, in my research, or as Tamy Spry/Jane Renderll? says: (frase de que ser objetivo es naive, inuitil e ignorante)

PLACE/

MAKING

——Articulating.

process/product

An interplay of poetry, sound, theory, lived experience.

Abstraction, expression, dissemination.

Nathalie Loveless talking about research-creation. Sawchuk and Chapman, talking about research-creation. A million others before, talking about research-creation—with other names and concepts of course.

i dance in the studio, add a layer of sound, i revisit the theory, the books, the archive—i search again.

Finding a way to ...

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