The Place Futures online course at School of Critical Design arms students with place-making frameworks and the tools to shape the cities of tomorrow.

School: School of Critical Design
Course: Place Futures
Location: online
Course dates: continuous enrolment
Application deadline: continuous enrolment

Place Futures teaches you to apply futures methods to place-making strategies. In today's rapidly changing world, cities and landscapes face unprecedented challenges. Our Place Futures course from the School of Critical Design, created in collaboration with The Place Bureau, provides practitioners with tools and methodologies to navigate and shape the future of our built environments and communities.

Place Futures draws upon years of collective expertise in place-making, urbanism, futurism, design and brand strategy across commercial, public and academic sectors. Through Insight to Imagination to Impact, participants are guided through 46 concise online, text-based lessons with exercises and frameworks for practical application. Take the course at your own pace to work around your schedule.

Balance this individual learning with live virtual group tutorials, where we go deep into topics and share work-in-progress. These live tutorials offer opportunities for discussion, mentorship, and networking.

Ideal for urbanists, architects, policymakers, researchers, designers, strategists, technologists, educators and community organisers, our course offers a deep dive into critical, future-focused and participatory approaches.

You'll leave equipped with tools and frameworks for capturing and mapping insights, ways of bringing Place Futures to life with deep imagination, as well as frameworks and considerations for making and evaluating impacts, including positive benefits and potential harms.

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Top image: Place Futures, Gemma Jones, 2023.

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