Members of the UWM Design & Visual Communication program, originating from the Peck School of the Arts, are presenting the 2021 Entrepreneurship Showcase. This year's theme is "Healthy Cities"; students will design projects based on their idea of what makes a city healthy.

About the showcase and the students’ Healthy Cities Project:

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Design and Visual Communication seniors embarked on a semester long challenge to develop solutions that help foster healthier cities. The goal is to use design thinking to launch products, services and initiatives that can make our cities more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, ecological, and ultimately, whole. Until we can collectively—each and every one of us—participate in the promise of a thriving city, we can’t call it healthy.

Starting here and working within the frameworks of community catalyzing tools, improving environments, and living well, each student applied imagination and design thinking to develop a project that addressed an identified area of need. Their work is intended to bring forth solutions to some of the many ways in which our cities fail to achieve wholeness. At the showcase, you will experience how students explored ways to make cities healthier, more inclusive, equitable and vibrant.