Legacy Lands Alliance

ULLI’s partnership with Harvard Graduate School of Design spawned more than outstanding presentations of the future of Indianapolis. It birthed a new cohort - Legacy Lands Alliance. The group includes Indianapolis citizens who went to Cambridge to experience the students’ work and individuals who invest their time in building a better future for Indianapolis while honoring the histories of Black and Indigenous peoples. The alliance aims to bring positive change to their neighborhoods through programs promoting deep thinking and bridging the gap between civic leaders and the communities they serve.

Legacy Lands Alliance (LLA) is actively working in the Near-Northwest side of Indianapolis, with the first LLA event set in March, planned to be a small workshop introducing the Protopian Future concepts created by Graduate School of Design students. Civic and community leaders will be invited to attend as the group focuses on imaginative thinking of what the Near-Northwest side of Indianapolis could have been if systemic racism and disinvestment had not forced Black and Indigenous communities out.

A second LLA event will be held in April, showcasing the Protopian Futures theories to the community, with interactive segments and a panel discussion with the Harvard Graduate School of Design students who created these possibilities for Indianapolis’ future and community leaders.