Placemaking Halifax

A pilot project to develop placemaking as a permanent municipally supported program. After piloting two successful placemaking projects, Halifax Municipality now supports up to 5 placemaking initiatives every year through an established and funded municipal program.  You can check out that program here:  http://www.halifax.ca/culture/CommunityArts/Placemaking.php

Placemaking is the collaborative process of re-imagining and re-invigorating a common space placemaking builds the fabric of community.   Over the course of this 6-8 month process, community members get to know each other, discovering one another’s gifts and develops human, social, cultural capital.  

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Residents paint street with pride, love

Colouring the concrete: Placemaking Halifax

Placemaking helps turns Public Spaces into Social Gathering Spots from Halifax to Vancouver