Creative City Challenge Winner Announced

The Creative City Challenge is a competition for Minnesota artists and architects to create a destination artwork which acts as a sociable and participatory platform for summer-long onsite activities.  It is presented by the Minneapolis Convention Center and the Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Program of the City of Minneapolis and Meet Minneapolis in collaboration with Northern Lights.mn.

mini_polis Wins the Creative City Challenge

Northern Lights.mn recently announced the winner of the Creative City Challenge: mini_polis by Niko Kubota and team is a scale model of Minneapolis built in collaboration with community participants in a series of “build workshops.” The mini_polis team, led by local designer-educator-artists Niko Kubota, Jon Reynolds, and Micah Roth, will collect place-based hopes and memories at the workshops and create a multimedia interface within the finished city model to share these stories. mini_polis will be installed on the Minneapolis Convention Center Plaza and will be unveiled at Northern Spark on June 13, 2015.

View more about the project and a brief video explanation here.