ESMC Webinar Series
The Empowering Small Minnesota Communities Project (ESMC), established by the State of Minnesota during the 2023 legislative session, supports small Minnesota communities and local government units by providing added capacity to develop and better coordinate more resilient, sustainable, and adaptable infrastructure projects. The MDC is working with the Center for Transportation Studies, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, and the Regional Sustainable Development Partnership at UMN to lead this initiative. We want to provide communities involved or interested in the ESMC program with new and accessible perspectives on resilient infrastructure strategies. Our webinar series aims to give a better sense of possibilities with examples from professional experiences in the field, and to help communities that face similar challenges share best practices and innovative solutions.
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Search for Shelter Proposal 2024
Director of the Minnesota Design Center (MDC), Thomas Fisher presented the MDC's Search for Shelter proposal for Minneapolis's K-Mart site to the Whittier Alliance neighborhood association.
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The MDC collaborates across disciplines through academic and industry partnerships to address system design issues in Minnesota.
For 15 years, MDC has partnered with communities across Minnesota and the upper Midwest to find innovative solutions to our communities' most pressing design problems. Learn more about the research we have conducted, the partners we've worked with, and the results of our work in our 15th Anniversary Report.