Canada’s Placemaking Community is the hub for a movement of practitioners leading placemaking initiatives across the country. This community practice is an online space to foster togetherness, joy, and connection; a space to expand our collective imagination around placemaking.
Canada’s Placemaking Community is devoted to:
“The surest way to make great public spaces is Placemaking—the conscious act of fostering communities that allow everyone to thrive, prosper, and enjoy themselves in inspiring settings” Build Back Better, Together (Kent, Madden, & Davies, 2021)
To help you learn and discover how placemakers across Canada are building vibrant local communities and creating a sense of belonging.
To create and share a crowd-sourced resource library to support, inspire, and help bring your placemaking projects to life.
Placemaking isn’t a term familiar to all Canadians – but we think it should be. Join a movement of passionate community-builders dedicated to increasing awareness of placemaking.
The Healthy Communities Initiative was a $60-million investment from the Government of Canada supporting local efforts to transform public spaces in response to COVID-19.
Via the Healthy Communities Initiative, the government of Canada funded over 1000 pandemic-responsive placemaking projects.
Canada’s Placemaking Community builds on the creativity and inventiveness of the over 6000 local organizations that applied and an even bigger network of practitioners across the country in an effort to build a nation-wide placemaking community.
The HCI funding program formally ended in September of 2024, but Canada’s Placemaking Community lives on!
CUI is the national platform that houses the best in Canadian city building — where policymakers, urban professionals, civic and business leaders, community activists and academics can learn, share and collaborate with one another from coast to coast to coast. CUI championed the community of practice, starting a movement of placemaking leading to Canada’s Placemaking Community.
CFC is the national leadership organization for Canada’s over 200 local community foundations. Together with community foundations across the country, they help drive local solutions for national change on the issues that matter most to communities.
The community of practice was made possible by a dedicated network of partners committed to supporting local champions. These organizations offered mentorship, expert knowledge, convening opportunities, and much more.
Without them, Canada’s Placemaking Community could not have emerged from the Canada Healthy Communities Initiative.
This project is funded by the Government of Canada.
