With growing cultural diversity, environmental pressures, and shifting social dynamics, urban landscapes are becoming increasingly complex. Creative interventions in shared urban spaces provide pathways to navigate these challenges. Through its intersections with architecture, scenography and placemaking practices, contemporary performance design reimagines the city as a dynamic stage for cultural narratives and artistic expression. This article draws upon two ecoscenographic works—Tejidos (Mexico, 2018–present) and Recess Time (Singapore, 2018–present)—to critically reflect on how attributes of ecoscenography and creative placemaking can coalesce into ‘ecoscenographic placemaking’. The authors introduce ecoscenographic placemaking as a place-responsive approach to creative processes, demonstrating how it can develop works that strengthen place-based ecological engagement. The findings reveal that this form of site-specific activation creates ecological aesthetics that challenge traditional notions of beauty as well as iterative ways of working that build upon the eco-cultural narrative present within shared urban landscapes.