Creative Placemaking + Portraiture to Understand & Shape a Shared Vision
The Milwaukee Vision Project (MVP) is a collaborative, multi-media initiative that aims to create a shared vision for the city of Milwaukee.
Built from the stories, insights, and ideas of individual Milwaukeans, the Milwaukee Vision Project will create a layered, emergent narrative that guides how we view and shape the city from the past, the present, and into the future.
MVP is equal parts: portrait series, creative digital placemaking, and deep research. The ultimate objective is to understand what the people of Milwaukee see, believe, want, need, and can imagine for their city.
One of the primary purposes of the Milwaukee Vision Project is to create a channel for new voices to be heard and contextualized when thinking about what can and should happen in our city.
We believe accurate representation is critical. So you can expect to see our storytellers reflect the demographics of the city across lines of race, geography, gender, age, industry, and lived experience.
Support the Milwaukee Vision Project
✓the Milwaukee vision project is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Milwaukee vision project must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Nov 2024
Project Launch
Milwaukee Vision Project launches to build partnerships, audiences, and collaborators to build together and help find people to tell their stories.
May 2025
Pilot Launch
The first set of photographs, stories, and insights are published for interaction and feedback to help shape the future of the project.
Nov 2025
Year One Insights
We will have our first full set of portraits and stories published and tagged, giving us enough data to start to analyze patterns, trends, and insights from the community.
Dec 2027
Culture Building
After three years of growth, the Milwaukee Vision Project will be an active and engaged resource for everyone committed to community-driven development in Milwaukee.
Ways to get Involved:
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Follow our social media accounts now to see stories as they’re published and to watch the project grow.
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Reach out if you or someone you know has a unique perspective to share about what Milwaukee is, what it can be, and how to get there.
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Connect with us if you’d like to contribute to the project and you are an: artist, connector, photographer, designer, producer, interviewer, web developer, project manager, qualitative researcher, data analyst, or data visualization expert.
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Consider donating or sponsoring part of the project to be a part of the collective future-culture-building of Milwaukee.