{"id":1410,"date":"2021-02-18T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2021-02-18T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:22:21","slug":"place-parts-episode-10-choreographing-place-with-sherry-dobbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/place-parts-episode-10-choreographing-place-with-sherry-dobbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Place Parts, Episode 10: Choreographing Place, with Sherry Dobbin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we emerge from the pandemic, why center only on architectural compatibility or placemaking listicles?  Why not admit the common adage, that the city&#8211;and its places&#8211;are a stage?  As <a href=\"https:\/\/futurecity.co.uk\">Futurecity Ltd<\/a> cultural strategist <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.uli.org\/sherry-dobbin-appointed-as-chair-of-the-uli-uk-urban-art-forum\/\">Sherry Dobbin<\/a> advises, the stage should be choreographed based on a comprehensive analysis of stakeholders&#8217; fantasies and fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tout Sherry&#8217;s approach in <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781538133255\/Sustaining-a-City%27s-Culture-and-Character-Principles-and-Best-Practices\"><em>Sustaining a City&#8217;s Culture and Character<\/em><\/a>, and I consulted with her several times in 2019 and 2020 to help refine the book&#8217;s key messaging. Google Sherry and learn of her precedent-setting <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/59012\/curating-for-the-world-times-squares-sherry-dobbin-talks-art\/\">Times Square experience<\/a> facilitating arts and culture in a reclaimed pedestrian place.  From her understanding of human nature comes, in my humble opinion, the magical synergy we really need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M_Z2b6wihHs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First, in the video, we discuss her &#8220;small d, director&#8221; approach, including the often unseen heroes of placemaking facilitation.  Second, there&#8217;s a London story and a Moscow story. Third, Sherry tells Times Square stories about outdoor opera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with my previous Place Parts chats with <a href=\"http:\/\/pisode-7-replenishing-place-at-many-scales\/\">Tia Kansara<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/01\/place-parts-episode-6-authenticity-and-deliberative-communities\/\">Katherine Loflin<\/a>, I emerged more committed to the importance of immersive, critical thinking about changing environments. I have renewed faith in those who can bridge government, the private sector, and the non-profit world. There&#8217;s no disguising that these are my agendas as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Review the special \u201clanding page\u201d for&nbsp;<em>Sustaining a City\u2019s Culture and Character<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/page.rowman.com\/pages\/16609\/26636\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we emerge from the pandemic, why center only on architectural compatibility or placemaking listicles? Why not admit the common adage, that the city&#8211;and its places&#8211;are a stage? As Futurecity Ltd cultural strategist Sherry Dobbin advises, the stage should be choreographed based on a comprehensive analysis of stakeholders&#8217; fantasies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[674,24,31,995,984,989,1001,1000],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-character","tag-culture","tag-pandemic","tag-place","tag-placemaking","tag-placeparts","tag-public-art","tag-sherrydobbin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sustainingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/500c9ab3-5d4a-4136-8de0-ef09217af099.jpg?fit=2048%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc03Hh-mK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}