NCCP | CPL SUMMITS

The Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit program helps grow and professionalize the field. It teaches and promotes high standards of practice; models inclusiveness, collaboration, and mutual respect; and provides a gateway that is accessible for creative placemakers who don’t yet know they are creative placemakers. Our approach to knowledge building is iterative. Leadership Summits provide a node for people of all levels of knowledge to share what they know.

Since 2014, we have held ten Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits or Creative Placemaking Knowledge Exchanges in Colorado, New Jersey, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico, and more. More than 1,800 people have participated in these events, which have featured more than 250 sessions on a wide range of issues involving creative placemaking.

We offer a range of learning activities – from traditional seminars (for awareness building) to interactive workshops (for synthesis and application) to peer exchanges (for evaluation and creation.) Some sessions – such as field workshops, provide concrete experiences, while others, such as the peer exchanges, offer opportunities for abstract conceptualization.

Modeling the behaviors that we hope to see in the field, we collaborate with a wide variety of people and organizations. Together, we identify themes, issues, and key audiences for each Summit. NCCP works to reach out and recruit partners from under-represented communities in the field -- whether they be ethnic, cultural, or sectoral communities. To date, we have worked with more than 100 partners around the United States.