How can a young person’s perspective inspire new solutions? Come to the Nashville Youth Design Team’s Community Exhibition to find out!

The Nashville Youth Design Team is a diverse group of high school interns from across Davidson County working to make Nashville’s neighborhoods more supportive of youth wellbeing. The Team follows a Youth Participatory Action Research process where they conduct community research with young people in Nashville to learn how their neighborhoods are contributing or taking away from their wellbeing. Then, they design and install solutions to issues they are seeing. Past projects have inspired a permanent soccer field at Antioch Park and future complete street improvements on Dickerson Pike.

This summer, the Team has been working on community research and designs for the Looby Community Center and surrounding campus that address the need for more safe community spaces for youth.