Mayor's Institute on City Design

The Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD) is a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) leadership initiative designed to foster an understanding of and appreciation for the role of design in creating vibrant, livable cities, and the importance of mayors as advocates for good design. An MICD session consists of a two and one-half day workshop at which fewer than twenty participants -- typically eight mayors and a team of interdisciplinary design professionals -- discuss design and development issues that each city mayor is currently facing. The University of Kentucky College of Design was chosen to host the MICD East Region Session in the Fall of 2012, marking the first time the conference will be held in the state.