Research Presentations

Building on our visit to the Dunbar neighborhood, our task was to accumulate research for a topic relating back to community resilience and compile our findings into a booklet. The goal was to show off how climate action planning, environmental health, critical infrastructure, and social resilience can strengthen and develop community resilience on a national, local, and neighborhood level.

This week, we met at Central Christian Church to speak with Jay Jones from More2 about resilience hubs. More2 is an Environmental Action Agency, which helps to produce resilience hubs and action centers here in Kansas City, such as Central Christian Church. During our visit we talked about environmental inequities and opportunities within KCMO and how the city can come together as a community to take care of each other and their environment. 

Our groups came together and presented our research from the first two weeks of studio. Alongside our research paper, we were tasked with making four personas for the users of our projects. These personas represent the neighborhood residents, allowing us to zero in on user needs and pain points to create design decisions to fill the needs of the community! Combating harsh weathers and droughts, strengthening connection between community and social programs, making emergency services accessible, and creating infrastructure to make a community thrive on its own give the foundation to search for opportunities to make community resilience develop and strengthen the Dunbar neighborhood.