The Cultural Placekeeping Guide
The Cultural Placekeeping Guide: How to Create a Network for Local Emergency Action introduces a network-building approach, called “cultural placekeeping,” for safeguarding and strengthening local arts and culture communities. Organizing a self-help emergency action network to supplement and coordinate with the existing disaster management system is a way to foster community cohesion and connectedness—important when a crisis strikes.
SPOTLIGHT: The Dignity Museum shares stories of the forgotten
A traveling exhibit, “The Dignity Museum”, created by Love Beyond Walls, an Atlanta-based non-profit shares the stories of the forgotten. Through interactive technology, storytelling and thought-provoking questions, visitors confront their ideas of homelessness and what it takes to escape it.
SPOTLIGHT: Drawing Good at The Sketch Effect
The Sketch Effect make ideas understandable and actionable through awesome visual communication. They partner with non-profit organizations in underserved communities in Atlanta, GA in a project called “Drawing Good”.
Sharpsburg Youth Design Camp
The Youth Design Camp in Sharpsburg, KY was a 3-day immersive program that aimed to equip students with design principles and how those can be applied to community life. The Design Camp was built on 2 main program components: a Design Thinking Process Presentation and an Asphalt Mural Installation.