An innovative spatial architectural heritage of more-than-inhabitation project that employs creative, participatory mapping techniques to document the intricate and multi-layered built-environments and journeys of the Yazidis over the past ten years (since the 3rd of August 2014 Yazidi Genocide).

The Drama Labs are innovative interventions in the case studies to explore new ways to engage with conflict productively. The Drama Labs use a mix of performative and applied drama to enable transdisciplinary engagement between researchers and theatre makers, as well as governmental, market and civil society actors.

This research delves into the intersection of collective trauma and urban design within the micro-districts of Alytus, Lithuania. It aims to understand how participatory urban design can facilitate the healing of collective trauma while enhancing public spaces - by architect and urbanist, Greta Samulionyte.

By Sana Murrani, critically and visually exploring the spatial practices of refugees in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.

A series of reources from Shopwork Architecture.

The Ukraine-based project aims to restore society through the training of professionals and direct work with children, adolescents, students, volunteers, and veterans, using academic methodologies to restore the psychoemotional health of society and involving education and art therapy in Ukrainian hospitals, shelters for displaced persons, children’s shelters, and art institutions.

‘In March 2021, a forest fire destroyed thousands of hectares of native forest and 500 houses of the current population. Together with one of the affected women, we created a play called Radal that was shared with the community. Reconstructing the event helped us say goodbye to the objects that contained life stories. The material caught fire but we conserved the essential engine to continue life.’

Elizabeth Chacko, Professor of Geography and International Affairs at the George Washington University, on signs of micro and macro public yearning.

Dr r Anna Marazuela Kim, one of the Trauma Informed Placemaking book contributors, writes for thegallery.org about the potential of public art in troubled times.

From Eloise Reddy, researcher in on trauma-informed practice in the built environment.

A transposition of the trauma informed principles directly into place-based work from Cara and Anita.

Amid the destruction, people are working with artists and engineers to honour their sorrow and ensure we don’t forget - from The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins.

Susana F. Molina, founder and Editor-at-Large of The Urban Activist, on Thomas Heatherwick’s campaign.

Barnahus (which means Children’s House in Icelandic) is a child-friendly, interdisciplinary and multi-agency centre for the victims and witnesses of violence, underpinned by the UN Conventions of the Rights of the Child.

Backed by the latest cutting-edge scientific research, Heatherwick exposes the damage being done by the identikit modern urban environments scattered across the world.

From Shelterforce, where in Cleveland, several organisations are bringing new function and meaning to traumatized spaces.

Article from Jackie Armstrong about what is risked by not integrating trauma-informed practices and values into museum work.

Continuing the conversation series, The Edges in the Middle, presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute - Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation with Indy Johar of Dark Matter Labs, speaking on the theme A New Theory of the Self, Báyò and Indy dive into the milieu of life forms entangled together on earth.

A wide set of talks, films and other installations at the event, in and around the Wellcome Institute in London, from 22nd to 25th of June 2023

Webinar recording of the Healthy Happy Places sesion on Trauma Informed Placemaking, ft, Dr Cara Courage.

From The Art Newspaper - Can museums act as mediators in Northern Ireland’s hard-won peace?

Edited by Theresa Delgadillo, Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Geraldo L. Cadava, and Claire F. Fox

Project Update Jan 2023

The Israeli Forum for Ecological Art - an association of artists & scientists which acts within an NGO state umbrella, to create an environmental change through art.

Essay on catastrophe and catastrophizing on e-flex Notes.

Originally published in 2013 in The Philosopher’s Magazine, this essay is even more relevant today in light of human society’s worsening impact on the biosphere. Reprinted with permission on eflux Notes.

Sophie Hope and Marc Herbst discuss cultural movements and their crossover with political movements, ‘post-migrant’ studies, precarious research and cultural methods for working with possibly traumatized people

As the world falters, threatening native ecosystems and Indigenous lifeways, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright turns inward to the dwelling place of ancestral story. From here, she considers how her ancient culture has responded to ongoing destruction—and how to bear witness to the creation of a post-apocalyptic world.

A framework to support you to build greater belonging and reduce othering in your community

From The Alternative, ‘What's "Urbanised Knowledge Syndrome"? When brutal development severs a community's relations to nature, their mental horizons narrow’

Often featuring articles about place and Indigeneity, ruptured landscapes and our place relation.

Set up in 2020, COVIDSpeakEasys were free, safe, confidential, professionally-led online support groups for COVID bereaved life-partners to share their experiences, grief and concerns about life after their partner's death.

By Jesse Proudfoot, and published in Social Science & Medicine, Volume 228, May 2019, Pages 194-201

Social movement theory and insurgent planning, on the placing blog.

New book from Harrell Fletcher. Image: the artist.

By Nicola Rollock, ‘tudy of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain’ including its spatial aspects.

A collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, education experts, performance artists, community members, government and community organisations. (Image credit to publisher).

The curatorial approach taken here by our own Cara Courage will be adopted and developed in our textbook. (Image credit to publisher).

On the capitalisation of the term Indigenous.

A ground-breaking format for an academic text a book we keep returning to. Inclusive Arts Practice and Research: A Critical Manifesto by Alice Fox and Hannah Macpherson. (Image credit to publisher).

By none other than our own Tom Borrup, this book has been useful in our practice as well as in developing our textbook format thinking. (Image credit to publisher).

A book and website in tandem, this endeavour has been a mainstay for us since its publication. Visualizing Research: a guide to the research process in Art and Design by Carole Gray and Julian Malins. (Image credit to publisher).

A series of books that is always a must-read, and another format inspiration for us. (Image credit to publisher).

The format of a textbook really excites us as a format that lends itself to a focus on learning outcomes and application of theory into practice. We are taking inspiration from a number of books initially, the first being The Constituent Museum: Constellations of Knowledge, Politics and Mediation: A Generator of Social Change (Valiz Foundation). (Image credit to publisher).

As a cohort we are meeting regularly to talk through theoretical, conceptual and application quandaries, how we talk about trauma-informed placemaking, its foundational basis, and how we continue to build and include more in this endeavour. This thinking will be shared soon and ongoing.