Kūrybiškos vietokūros vadybos ypatumai: bendruomenės pritraukimo į kūrybiškos vietokūros veiklas tyrimas ; The Peculiarities Of Creative Placemaking Management: Analysing Community Engagement In Creative Placemaking Activities

Abstract

This work analyses creative placemaking – a comparitavely new term in Lithuania that has been popularised with I. Nagyte and E. Kaminskis publication "Creative placemaking" in 2016. Creative placemaking is extremely relevant today, when national as well as international strategic political agendas address communities as a vital part of sustainable society's development in urban and rural backgrounds. Although in Lithuania political infrastructure for creative placemaking is only in its initial stages, a few individual practical examples coming from personal initiatives and empirical experience allows to conduct an analysis and ivestigate the reasons behind the success and failure of different initiatives. This paper analyses one of the several successful placemaking components as well as a challange – comunity engagement in creative placemaking activities. Work aims at analysing creative placemaking management peculiarities and their connection to the community engagement through scrutinising four realised practical creative placemaking initiatives in Vilnius. By using comparative analysis and Mill's cannons of induction, 11 out of 15 theory based assumptions about creative placemaking management connection to community engagement were approved as important. Even though the used qualitative method is short to prove or deny the hypothesis about creative placemaking management determining community engagement, results of the comparative research does not reject the hypothesis, thus further studies are recommended in the further research directions section. Finally, based on the examined theory and comparative analysis results, 5 recommendations are formed to promote further creative placemaking studies and exploration of practical management tips for successful creative placemaking.