The impact of autonomous vehicles (AV's) on the public realm.
The Minnesota Design Center is launching an initiative in fall 2020, focused on achieving "A More Equitable and Sustainable Post-Pandemic World." With funding from the McKnight Foundation, the MDC will host a series of remote,
community based, design workshops that will explore the unequal, disproportionate, and disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and focus on the likely long-term impacts on people's lives, on the regional economy, and on
the built environment.
Learn more about the design workshops.
Post-Pandemic World is a podcast, sponsored by the Minnesota Design Center, that looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes already underway before the global crisis began, how those changes will likely affect our lives from now on, and how we can use the crisis to construct a more humane, equitable, and sustainable future for ourselves. Learn more...
Here are three of the many projects underway at the MDC that show the range of work we do in diverse communities across Minnesota.
The MDC is engaged in a two-year pilot project with the regional community group Southeast Minnesota Together and with three communities...
Read MoreWe partnered with City of Minneapolis/Hennepin County Office to End Homelessness in Spring 2012
Read MoreWe are working with the Economic Development Agency of the Destination Medical Center in Rochester on what it means to be "America's City for Health".
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