Registration Open for the next Certificate in Creative Placemaking Course

Registration is open for NJIT’s next iteration of the Certificate in Creative Placemaking taking place Spring 2024 and will be available fully online.

Creative placemaking has emerged in the last decade as a critical tool to transform neighborhoods, cities, and communities through the intentional integration of arts, culture and community-engaged design. During this course of study, students are immersed in the process, principals and practice and practical application of creative placemaking.

Students participate in group projects, identify and inventory location-based creative assets, define, design and tell the story of creative places and explore the use of the arts, economic development, urban and rural planning, and community development as an agent of change for sustainable community transformation. Students learn to identify and effectively communicate with community leaders and stakeholders.

Throughout this course, examples of creative places and approaches to creative placemaking from around the country are examined through open dialogue between students, instructors and successful practitioners. By the end of this course of study, students have prepared a sample Creative Placemaking Plan and have completed a community-engaged initiative with full report on their process, applied principles and evaluation of local change.

At successful completion of this course, the student will be a Certified Creative Placemaker. 

As one recent graduate of the program noted "I learned so much about disciplines that were outside my wheelhouse, and have a better understanding of how my own division works. I find myself looking at my surroundings in different ways, comparing and contrasting neighborhoods, being more aware of communities, being more involved in public policies."

The NJIT Certificate in Creative Placemaking Spring, 2024 session starts in late January. Class size for this course of study is strictly limited in order to maximize peer-to-peer exchange. The Spring class is already beginning to fill. For further information complete this form, email NJIT or call 973-869-9748.