Post-Secondary educators across North America are bracing for a wildly unpredictable 2020-2021 academic year, buffeted by myriad learning, teaching, health and economic challenges. Yet, while these immediate, pandemic-driven trials preoccupy most administrators’ attention, the upheavals of 2020 have also accelerated dynamic forces that will stress test the mettle and creativity of higher learning in even more surprising ways.
Hear Charles Landry, the UK-based pioneer of creative city building, on how psychology and the collective mindset of a community affects its come-back trajectory. Landry's insights are more relevant than ever for the post-COVID era.
Corona, the pandemic, is turning our world upside down – at least the parts many believe to be the most important: our personal freedom and the economy. Over the last weeks I’ve been in close (virtual) contact with many readers,…
The Washington, DC region has undergone a dramatic renaissance in the past 20 years. However, some established or older neighborhoods and jurisdictions have been left behind and continue to struggle. Ikonicast takes you behind the city’s iconic monuments to uncover…
https://placebrandobserver.com/experience-masterplanning-how-to-guide/ In this How To guide, learn how Experience Masterplanning can help create better places through integrating placemaking and place branding. Malcolm Allan, Roger Hobkinson and Jeannette Hanna explain step by step how Experience Masterplanning can lead to a holistic…
Closer collaboration between placemaking and place branding is the argument presented in this guest post by Malcolm Allan, Jeannette Hanna and Roger Hobkinson, who introduce us to the concept of Experience Masterplanning. https://placebrandobserver.com/placemaking-place-branding-hand-in-hand/
Perhaps it’s her journalism training that drives Jeannette’s obsession with the stories of organizations and places. As co-author of Ikonica, A Field Guide to Canada’s Brandscape she explored the interdependencies of commerce, culture and community. It’s a theme that’s been…
Jeannette Hanna of the strategic brand agency Trajectory in Canada, in this interview touches on the intertwined destiny of the fields of place branding, placemaking and place management. We also discuss place brand authenticity and how a qualitative approach to…
Dateline: 1979 Design roots with street cred. Seen at the Max Webster A Million Vacations album release, Kim Mitchell stands between two of Trajectory's founders, Clark Spencer and creative maven Paul Hodgson. The coolsome pair was part of the infamous Fifty Fingers gang, when design for…
