Trauma Informed Placemaking (PDF)

Cara Courage SFIPM, FRSA is a Culture and Place Consultant-Director and scholar, named in the top 10 of place-thinkers globally and a 'strategy angel' for the arts sector. She has authored and edited several books on the topic. Cara has a prodigious creative industries, cultural institutions and higher education professional career alongside a renowned academic one. She undertakes her own arts/place research and also for academy and sector-commissioned partners across the globe and UK, including for national arts networks, cultural institutions and local and central government.

Anita McKeown, FRSA, FIPM, is an award-winning artist, curator, educator and researcher working at the intersection of Inclusive Design, Creative Placemaking, Open Source Culture and Technology and STEAM education, across a range of inter- and transdisciplinary projects, processes and partnerships. Anita is the director of SMARTlab Skelligs, SMARTlab Academy and co-founder of Future Focus21c, Anita's work uses an adaptive change method reverse-engineered for 21st-century challenges and integrates design-thinking, circular economic principles, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) / Earth Charter to encourage a holistic growth mindset and develop strategies and tactics to build social, environmental and economic resilience and encourage systemic behavioural change.