Place Branding · Architecture · Community Development

You Can Build a PROUD + FUN Place!

Placemaking starts with what your community already loves.

With our partners at Thrive, Inc., the PROUD + FUN Placemaking Workshop brings local leaders together to identify the stories, places, people, and assets that make your hometown distinctive, and imagine practical ways to make them more visible, useful, and enjoyable.

Together, we test ideas through a simple lens: Will this make residents more proud? Will this make the community more fun?

In partnership with

The PROUD + FUN Placemaking Workshop is delivered with Thrive, Inc. Visit thrivecenter.org →

Splash park, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. Photography by Rory Doyle.

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Get your leaders around the table

Tell us who would be in the room and what you are hoping comes out of it. Prefer email? hello@kudzucollective.design.

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