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Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
This project's faculty-student team helped local officials in Southwest Central Indiana complete ERI's Hoosier Resilience Index Readiness Assessment. The assessment helped local governments evaluate
their preparedness for climate risks and identify...
Focus areas: Quality of Place, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Like many rural towns, Holland's downtown faces the challenges of restoration, revitalization, and the need for more public spaces. In 2016, the community celebrated the state's bicentennial by successfully completing the Holland Commons project,...
Focus areas: Quality of Place, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Faculty and students in the comprehensive design capstone course produced possible mural designs for community consideration that depict historical representations of Holland. Trenton "Moosey" Musch completed the mural in the community.
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
In Spring 2023, Center for Rural Engagement comprehensive design intern Hannah Jones created project renders for a storybook trail leading from Holland Elementary to the local park. The following summer, Center for Rural Engagement staff met with...
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Participants assisted Memorial Hospital in assessing the capacity for mental health and substance use treatment in southwestern Indiana—focusing on areas that are part of the Memorial Hospital service area—and identified best
practices to help...
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: In progress
The Center for Rural Engagement is working with the Hoosier Harm Reduction Coalition to help re-form and re-convene the coalition's steering committee to launch a statewide sign-on campaign centered around harm reduction. Center staff are providing...
Focus areas: Community Resilience, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The Hoosier National Forest located in south-central Indiana worked on an application for an International Dark Sky Park designation to increase the number of visitors and to reduce the amount of light pollution in order to protect the Forest's...
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
The team constructed 100 light sensors to be used to measure light pollution levels in the Hoosier National Forest. The light sensors were produced in two batches of fifty. Thirty-five sensors out of each batch were deployed in the Hoosier National...
Focus areas: Quality of Place, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The Black Vulture Project collaborated with the School of Art, Architecture, and Design to develop low-cost, innovative, and sustainable architectural designs, budgeting, and fundraising plans for a modest home that can serve as workforce and...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The IU Center for Rural Engagement worked with Destination Huntingburg to set up cultural planning sessions to brainstorm ideas for new public art projects in the town of Huntingburg, Indiana. The sessions specifically looked at strategies to...
