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Purdue University and Creative Placemaking Communities to co-produce Creative Placemaking Leadership Certificate program

Creative Placemaking Communities and the Happiness & Well-Being Learning Collaborative at Purdue University’s John Martinson Honors College will now jointly co-produce the Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership Certificate program. 

The partnership will help expand and enhance the program, which provides executive-level learning to grow leaders for the field of creative placemaking. Creative placemaking helps communities become more sustainable, prosperous, and resilient by supporting those who believe in the strength of local arts and culture.

The current program is designed for mid- and senior-level professionals in arts, culture, public policy, planning or urban design fields. It focuses on several topics critical to successful creative placemaking:  systems thinking, alliance and partnership building, community development, economic development, site planning, destination marketing, and culturally competent leadership. It is an eight- to 10-month program, mostly online. 

Starting in fall 2022, students who successfully complete the program will receive a Certificate in Creative Placemaking Advanced Leadership from Purdue University Online and Creative Placemaking Communities. 

The program has been produced by Creative Placemaking Communities and its predecessor organization, the National Consortium for Creative Placemaking, since 2012. The program’s instructors and leaders specialize in adult education, community development, local economic development, urban planning and design, nonprofit management and public policy.  

Purdue’s Happiness & Well-Being Learning Collaborative brings together diverse stakeholders from the worlds of academia and civic leadership to foster sustainable changes that increase community well-being and allow people to “reach their fullest potential and live happy, healthy, meaningful lives.” Arts and cultural dimensions are central factors influencing well-being,

The new partnership will strengthen the program’s offerings, enhance support for program students and alumni, and bring a greater focus on the power of creative placemaking to enhance public health (which includes mental and behavioral health).  

To learn more about the program, please join us at the next Certificate information session at noon or 3 p.m. EST on May 17. More info about the Happiness & Well-Being Learning Collaborative can be found at: happinessandwellbeinglearningcollaborative.org.

Sources: Leonardo Vazquez, Creative Placemaking Communities, leo@cpcommunities.org, 973-763-6352, x1

Kathryn Dilworth, Happiness & Well-Being Learning Collaborative, kdilworth@purdue.edu