About
Mayors’ Institute on City Design
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design is a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors. MICD offers support to mayors and the design and arts community to increase livability, heighten design leadership, and promote resilience in impacted communities. In 2019 the University of Hawai’i Community Design Center and Institute and Sustainability and Resilience were competitively selected to host a regional Mayors’ Institute in Honolulu. Due to delays caused by the pandemic, this led to support from MICD for two efforts: a 2021 Mayors Design Tank and a 2022 Mayors’ Institute on City Design Honolulu Session, bringing six mayors and six subject matter experts to Hawai’i.
University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center
The University of Hawai’i Community Design Center (UHCDC) is a multi-disciplinary teaching practice that provides faculty, staff, and students with a collaborative platform for research, planning, design, and outreach that supports the public sector and public interest.
Institute for Sustainability and Resilience
The Institute for Sustainability and Resilience (ISR) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa aims to help Hawaiʻi meet our local and global obligations to environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on promoting well-being from the lens of community resilience.
Detroit Collaborative Design Center
The Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) is a multi-disciplinary, nonprofit architecture and urban design firm at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture dedicated to creating sustainable spaces and communities through quality design and the collaborative process.
The Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design
As the Tulane School of Architecture’s community design center, Small Center brings together creative makers and doers working for a better city. The center advances community-driven ideas through collaboration, design education and scrappy problem-solving.