How-To-Guide | Youth Design Camp

By Mercedes Fraser, CEDIK Senior Extension Associate and Community Design
Published on May. 1, 2024

In the summer of 2023, R.L. Brown Foundation director, Alice Hilton, and CEDIK Senior Extension Associate, Mercedes Fraser collaborated to host the Sharpsburg Youth Design Camp in Sharpsburg, Kentucky.

Project | Sharpsburg Design Studio

By Community Design
Published on Aug. 11, 2023

The Sharpsburg Design Studio began as a collaborative effort between the Blue Grass Community Foundation and the University of Kentucky's CEDIK, and builds on the mission and values of the Winchester Design Studio.

Internship | Flemingsburg KY 2022

By Ryan Sandwick, Community Design Specialist, CEDIK
Published on Aug. 1, 2023

A bridge connects two places, usually over a body of water. But bridges are symbolic of much more than that. They can symbolize connections between people. Bridges can also represent strength, transition, progress and unification.

Pilot | Mind.Art.Recovery.KY (MARK)

By Jessica Evans, Community Arts Senior Extension Associate
Published on Jul. 24, 2023

In the wake of this crisis in mental health and substance use disorder, University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension utilized its reach in the state to deploy research-based programming with a goal of increasing wellness in Kentucky communities.

Project | Winchester Design Studio

By Community Design
Published on Sep. 1, 2022

In 2019 CEDIK and the College of Design at the University of Kentucky launched the Winchester Design Studio.

Publication | Growing Successful Community Gardens

By Amanda Beavin, Bethany Pratt, and Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Mar. 16, 2022

How do we make community gardens more successful and help them persist through time with less reliance on Extension?

SPARK! Extension Toolkit for Creative Placemaking

By Dr. Jayoung Koo, CEDIK Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Melissa Bond, Community Arts Extension Program Leader
Published on Nov. 9, 2021

This publication, SPARK! Extension Creative Placemaking Toolkit, provides thirteen activities that Extension professionals can use to integrate creative placemaking efforts in extension programming.

Activity Guide | Chalk & Talk

By Community Design
Published on Jun. 6, 2021

The ‘Chalk and Talk’ program seeks to engage people in a creative and accessible way about their feelings, thoughts and views on their city’s downtown. In essence it is a way to informally gather and summarize the varying views and experiences of attendees of local festivals and events about the city while they are immersed in it.

Activity Guide | Downtown Bracket Challenge

By Ryan Sandwick, Community Design Specialist, CEDIK
Published on Jun. 6, 2021

The Downtown Bracket Challenge applies the bracket idea often used in sports competitions to engage people to vote on a creative placemaking project while supporting a good cause to benefit local nonprofit organizations.

Publication | Imagine the Implications! Facilitating Mind Mapping to Identify Community Repercussions from a Disruption

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK
Published on May. 16, 2020

Community disruptions are changes in the world that cause us to rethink our community systems and processes. During the 2020 pandemic for example, it became clear that the systems and behaviors that worked before would need to be reconsidered.