During the last round of grants to support creative placemaking along Indianapolis’ waterways, Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW) awarded $60,000 for system-wide waterway interpretation and education.

Managed by The daVinci Pursuit, the funding was used to underwrite temporary, movable and adaptable artistic and educational installations placed along each waterway to increase awareness. The pilot project was designed to learn how to better educate and engage the community about the ROW initiative and its elements.

This video takes a closer look at this effort and features three creative projects including a kinetic sculpture by David Landis, a “strawbale” by Jim Poyser of Earth Charter Indiana, and a giant boom box by Wil Marques and the Design Bank.

This innovative endeavor has been followed up by a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust to create permanent version of the creative placemaking concepts.