Ohio State University’s city and regional planning program will be offering a certification in creative placemaking this summer. The certification, which will be offered online, is designed and directed by Leonardo Vazquez, a leader in creative placemaking and continuing education for placemaking professionals.
The Certification in Creative Placemaking is
the first program of its kind in the United States to offer graduate credit. It combines six
graduate modules segments that students can participate in at their convenience
with 10 videoconference sessions focused on entrepreneurial leadership.
Each participant can also work on a real creative placemaking project
during the program, and have a valuable product to share with decisionmakers in
their community.
Instructors will include some of the top
experts and practitioners in the emerging field of creative placemaking.
The initiative director, Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP, is a national
award-winning urban planner who founded Arts Build Communities at Rutgers
University and is now the Executive Director of The National Consortium for
Creative Placemaking. It is a new offering by the City and Regional
Planning Section of the Knowlton School of Architecture, which has been a
pioneer and leader in online education for planning professionals.
The program runs from August 2013 to May
2014. Those who complete the full program will get a Certification in
Creative Placemaking from OSU’s City and Regional Planning Section.
You can take the program for credit or
noncredit. Noncredit tuition --
which allows you to earn the certification but not graduate credit -- is
$3,000 for the entire certification, and there is no requirement to travel to
Columbus for the program. Degree-seeking students can take this program
as a set of two three-credit courses. Learn more about
fees if taking the program for graduate credit.
Most of the reading materials will be
provided free in the classroom. There will be a graduation ceremony in Columbus
in June 2014.
The six “deep learning” modules cover such
topics as community development, economic development, analysis for creative
placemaking, building the capacity of community residents to lead creative
placemaking, site planning and cultural tourism.
The program is open to anyone, but is
designed for artists, arts administrators and other cultural professionals,
architects, landscape architects, public administration professionals, urban
planners or anyone working in community and economic development. Undergraduate
OSU students must get special permission from the program director to take any
3-modules for credit.
The program website will be open soon.
Registration will begin by June 1. For more information, please contact
Leonardo Vazquez at leo@artsbuildcommunities.com or 973-763-6352
This looks very interesting. I can't access the links you've posted about course credit. Can you advise how to access this information?
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Hi Kathleen, there were some incorrect links. I apologize for the confusion. The website with information about the classes should be open soon, and I'll announce that through the newsletter.
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