Placemaking India Weekend Goa- Day 1: Placemaking, Purpose & Place Narratives

​ Placemaking India Weekend brings together artists, citizens, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how places are shaped through culture, community, and care. Through creative workshops, local dialogues, and policy conversations, the day reflects on Goa’s lived realities and imagines regenerative, people-centred futures for India’s towns and cities.

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​3:00 – 4:30 PM | Welcome & Manifesto Workshop

​What is Placemaking? Where is Placemaking India Going?
In collaboration with Goa Zines Festival

• ​Moderator: Hansika Jethnani

• ​Placemaking Host: Swati Mishra

​Activities

• ​Creating a Placemaking Manifesto through collage, drawing, and writing

• ​Producing an art-focused manifesto with the Zines team

​4:30 – 5:00 PM | Local Sensing Dialogues

​Facilitator: Joanna Pyres, Act For Goa

​Focus

• ​Group discussions on Goa as a place

• ​Tensions, priorities, and future pathways

​5:00 – 5:15 PM | Film Screening

​Nagari
A cinematic lens on cities, culture, and community futures

​5:15 – 6:30 PM | Regenerative Tourism Roundtable

​What Policies Can Enable Regenerative Tourism?

​Speakers

• ​Arminio Ribeiro, Trustee, Charles Correa Foundation

• ​Jack Sukhija, President, Travel and Tourism Association of Goa

• ​Nisha Poulose,Woven Design Collaborative

• ​Moderator - Rohit Sinha , Writer

​Discussion Themes

​What policies can shift tourism from extraction to regeneration—by embedding placemaking as a core public function, investing in community-led public spaces and cultural commons, restoring nature, strengthening local livelihoods, and creating long-term value for communities, not just visitors?