The Studio Shares Its Story
The Madisonville Community Studio is an ongoing project co-created by Madisonville residents and Design Impact (DI) to explore key questions about the inclusiveness of neighborhood changes. The project is supported by the Kresge Foundation . In 2019, a group of Madisonville residents, community workers, and small business owners came together to explore two key questions with one another through a project called the Madisonville Community Studio: How might we improve connections among Madisonville residents across race? How might we ensure Madisonville’s Black residents have power, influence, and representation regarding decisions affecting the community? To improve interracial relationships in Madisonville and increase Black residents’ power, influence, and representation in the neighborhood’s development decisions, the Community Studio participants developed and tested (or prototyped) three ideas: Black-owned Business Coalition Redesigning Community Council “Meet Your Nei
