Landmark Columbus Foundation

10/06/2026

In two days, five Indiana cities come to Columbus to launch the Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership.

Rushville, the seat of Rush County in east-central Indiana, is a city of about 6,000 people. It is built around a courthouse square and a Main Street, and it has eight properties on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Summit opens with a free public keynote featuring Maurice Cox and Courtney Spearman, with remarks from U.S. Senator Todd Young. Reserve your free seat: https://proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com/

The Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership is led by Landmark Columbus Foundation's Civic Design Institute in partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and the Indiana Arts Commission.

Photos by Hadley Fruits

10/05/2026

Design excellence in big cities and small towns: what makes it last?

Join Maurice Cox and Courtney Spearman for the free Prove It Keynote, opening Landmark Columbus Foundation's national summit on design excellence as civic practice.

Thursday, October 8, 5:30 PM
The Commons, Columbus, Indiana
Register at https://proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com/

10/05/2026

In three days, five Indiana cities come to Columbus to launch the Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership.

Terre Haute, the "Queen City of the Wabash," is home to about 58,000 people, Indiana State University, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Its downtown has grown around an arts corridor and restored historic theaters.

The Summit opens with a free public keynote featuring Maurice Cox and Courtney Spearman, with remarks from U.S. Senator Todd Young. Reserve your free seat: https://proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com/

The Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership is led by Landmark Columbus Foundation's Civic Design Institute in partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and Indiana Arts Commission

Photos by: Hadley Fruits

10/03/2026

What does design excellence look like in large cities and in rural towns? Hear from Courtney Spearman at the inaugural Prove It Summit Keynote: Courtney is program manager for Building Common Ground: Fieldwork, a new national program giving rural and Tribal cultural organizations customized design and project development support, after more than a decade representing the design field at the National Endowment for the Arts.

The keynote is free and open to the public. Residents, students, designers, community leaders, and anyone curious about the future of their community, are welcome. Advanced registration is encouraged, proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com.

10/02/2026

Next week, five Indiana cities come to Columbus to launch the Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership. Over the coming days, we're introducing each one, starting with Muncie.

Muncie, in east-central Indiana, is home to about 65,000 people and Ball State University. The Walnut Street Historic District and the Carnegie Library anchor a downtown economy that is shifting toward health care, education, and retail.

We're glad to have Muncie at the table!

The Summit opens with a free public keynote featuring Maurice Cox and Courtney Spearman, with remarks from U.S. Senator Todd Young. Reserve your free seat: https://proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com/

The Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership is led by Landmark Columbus Foundation's Civic Design Institute in partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and the Indiana Arts Commission
Photos by: Hadley Fruits

10/02/2026

What does design excellence look like in large cities and in rural towns? Hear from Maurice D. Cox at the inaugural Prove It Summit Keynote: Maurice is the Emma Bloomberg Professor in Residence of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where his work merges architecture, design, and politics in pursuit of equitable urban development.

The keynote is free and open to the public. Residents, students, designers, community leaders, and anyone curious about the future of their community, are welcome. Advanced registration is encouraged: https://proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com/

09/30/2026

Exciting News! Governor Mike Braun has announced the Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership, a two-year statewide effort to understand what makes public investment in quality of place endure. Our Civic Design Institute leads the partnership with the State of Indiana, through the Indiana Economic Development Corporation the Indiana Arts Commission.

We launch the partnership on Thursday, October 8, with the Prove It Summit Keynote at The Commons. The keynote brings together civic leaders, thinkers, researchers, designers, and funders to test a single proposition: design excellence is a civic discipline that any community willing to do the work can define, measure, and practice.

The keynote is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is encouraged. https://proveitkeynote.eventbrite.com/

https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/indiana-launches-quality-of-place-investment-study

A new two-year partnership will bring together four Indiana communities to study which quality of place investments create lasting economic and cultural value.

09/26/2026

Join us on Monday for The Monument Knows Public Conversation No. 2 with leaders from Downtown Indy and Indy Chamber.

What does the Monument mean to Indianapolis today? 👀

Join Landmark Columbus Foundation for The Monument Knows: Public Conversation No. 2 on September 28 for a conversation about the Monument as a place of reverence, protest, celebration, and everyday life.

Hear from DIA's own Taylor Schaffer and Blaine Zimmerman of the Indy Chamber, moderated by Sampson Levingston from Walk and Talk Indy, followed by a walking tour of the Circle🚶‍♀️

📍 Indy Chamber at Salesforce Tower
🕟 Doors at 4:30 p.m. | Program at 5 p.m.
🎟️ Free and open to the public. Advance registration is required at the link in bio.