A research-as-publication project to understand the role of trauma and healing in place-based practice, research and theory
Place has been seen as ranging from being contested, where people and politics clash, or as convivial, as sites of serendipitous meeting and celebration for example; but wherever placed on that spectrum, the potential of place to have been of a traumatic experience is not widely acknowledged.
This project brings together place academics, practitioners and thought-leaders, with those from psychology, the arts, behavioural and social sciences in a transdisciplinary investigation of ‘trauma-informed placemaking,’ and calls for this approach as foundational for any understanding of, or working in, place.
It is an independent project conceived and led by Dr Cara Courage and Dr Anita McKeown.