The future of health is not more hospitals and doctors, it is healthy, safe and inclusive places for people and nature.

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This is a concise course for professionals, packed with all the essential information and advice on place-based projects and place improvement activities. It aims to help you to:

1. Realise the benefits of collaborative, iterative, place-based approaches
2. See the opportunities for placemaking in a range of contexts
3. Set up a project for success
4. Save time and reduce the risks

A single discipline or organisation can't create great places alone, even if everyone was doing their job perfectly.

Placemaking is about bringing different people, organisations and disciplines together to create positive changes in a place or area. This also includes improving existing spaces to make them more comfortable, accessible, active and attractive. It is a growing global movement that aims to improve not only the physical elements of a space, but also the way people think and feel about the world around them.

This course will teach you some of the essential skills for successful placemaking.

You'll learn that one of the biggest opportunities for improving social, economic and environmental outcomes in urban areas is better diagnosing the *real* problems and the approaches needed to address them.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Communicate the opportunities and benefits of a placemaking process
2. Properly engage external stakeholders and the community
3. Confidently lead a placemaking project

The role of place professionals is to help the place to thrive and enable the local businesses, residents, community groups and visitors to play important roles in this process.

Get your personal Certificate of Completion

People who complete this course will receive a personalised Certificate of Completion, endorsed by Town Team Movement and PlacemakingX, to recognise your knowledge.

Remember to press the “Complete and Continue” button in the top right-hand corner after you have finished each lesson and task, including the final “Download your Certificate of Completion” section.

Once you press the “Complete and Continue” button in the final section, you will be issued with your own personalised Certificate of Completion.