Place-Making Project
Place Making Project in the Taybeh, Tira, Akka, and Nazareth with partnership with “Arab Center for Alternative Planning” and “Arab Center for Media Freedom of Development and Research -Eilam”
“To create a lively place we need to focus on people.” The conventional way of planning should be turned up-side down and a more controversial planning process should be introduced, with the people and the life of the cities and public spaces in focus. There is a need to create spaces that are inviting for people and take in consideration people’s needs and behavioral patterns
Main goal and project summary:
The idea of ‘Public Sphere and Place’ has long been central to the planning and design practice. Recent trends illustrate increased intervention in the ‘experience’ and ‘feeling’ of places, in order to influence and enhance community dynamics. While place-making is an important tool for experts to utilize in community planning, it should be accompanied by a thorough understanding of the cultural, historical and social dynamics of place and the implications it has for the people who inhabit these places. In this sense, participatory planning forms an integral part of future place-making processes and planning thereof. In this project, the first aim is to capture the importance of incorporating public perspective into the place-making process when considering future planning by the Local Authorities. The second is to stress the importance of the creative participatory processes to attract stakeholders(businessmen, residents, neighbors…ect) and enhance their willingness to partake in the participatory planning processes. The third aim is to identify creative participatory planning tools that can be used to enhance participatory planning within the place-making process
Through our project, we aim to place-making in the public sphere and create “a place” in a creative and participatory manner, by recreating “A Palestinian statuette in the public space”, at a low cost, but it carries the Palestinian identity and local artistic character that reflects the identity and history of each town .We propose our current project by creating and designing using social-planning tools that enable youth leaders to participate and initiate changes in the public space to reclaim spiritual and identity ownership over it.
Tishreen see the "Palestinian Place Making" project, with joint leadership aiming to empowering the Palestinian human being, strengthening their nationality and preserving their identity by strengthening youth capabilities to build a place that does not only imitate its identity and culture, but rather strengthens it and enhances youth belonging to the place. An identity that must be preserved, respected, and treated as a memorial heritage and a vivid present.
The project starts with building an empowered mentoring group of citizens, with practical tools, serious experience and a self-belief in the ability to continue creating societal change and improving the public space .Investigative field tours to the areas of the old city of Tayibeh Tira, Akka, and Nazareth interviewing the residents randomly and asking questions about their needs and aspirations in their surrounding areas.
