Relationship between sense of place and co-creation process: A systematic literature review

Co-creation has been embraced as a new participatory strategy for place-making. The reasons behind the agency that gets public participation for co-creation are not yet explored, but some research indicates sense of place is an intrinsic motivation for participation. Thus, this paper systematically explores whether the prevailing literature has revealed the relationship between sense of place and the co-creation process. Of the 1636 publications from 2002 to 2022, 75 were subjected to in-depth content analysis. However, only 22 articles indicate the relationship between sense of place and the co-creation process. Further, some studies empirically demonstrated that the sense of place has a positive role in the co-creation process and engagement in the co-creation process enhances the sense of place. As such the prevailing studies focus on non-urban, non-spatial and in the global north contexts, this systematic literature review depicts the lack of urban place-making-related research on the relationship from the global south.

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This paper systematically explores the relationship between sense of place and the co-creation process, revealing a lack of research on urban place-making in the global south. The findings confirm the positive role of sense of place in the co-creation process and highlight the need for further investigation in non-urban and non-spatial contexts.