Creative placemaking is a community development process that uses art, design, and culture to enable a diverse set of stakeholders to coalesce and engage with, shape, and celebrate their physical surroundings, catalyze economic prosperity, strengthen trust across social networks, and build resiliency in their shared environments.

The Live6 Placemaking Initiative is a system of relationships between public, private, civic, and non-profit entities, higher learning institutions, community associations and block clubs, small business owners, and neighborhood residents. In its current iteration, it is developing, maintaining, and stewarding public, cultural, and commercial visual assets that follow and activate a stakeholder-driven visual identity design and brand strategy for the W. McNichols commercial corridor between Livernois and Wyoming. These will include street light banners, neighborhood storytelling and wayfinding campaigns, as well as enhanced user-friendly business directories; a public mural that serves as a welcoming gateway to our corridor communities, and a variety of small scale tactical interventions prototyped to bolster utilization of the pedestrian-oriented McNichols streetscape improvements.

For additional information on this project, you can contact Paul Schreiber, our Communications and Operations Manager at paul@live6detroit.org. Better yet, join us at one of our upcoming placemaking-focused community events this summer! For more information and details on these activations, head to our events calendar linked here.