This case-study based seminar introduces students to Creative Placemaking as a practice that leverages the power of the arts, culture, and design to support equitable, vibrant, and sustainable communities. Students analyze Creative Placemaking initiatives that elevate our shared humanity and address critical challenges, such as conversations about racial injustice, inequitable development, climate change or celebrations of the diverse communities and cultures around us. Such projects enable us to consider and imagine ethical development practices, especially in underserved and historically marginalized neighborhoods. Based on participation in creative placemaking and presentations from practitioners, they will capture the ways that artists and designers in partnership with local culture bearers and knowledge keepers can play a vital role in shaping, keeping, and making meaningful places.