Landmark Columbus Foundation
Landmark Columbus Foundation (LCF) demonstrates what design excellence can mean to a community: earned through discipline, proven in public, and cared for as a legacy for the future. Columbus, Indiana, is the proof. Through four focus areas, we define the discipline, care for Columbus's design legacy, test excellence in public, and bring the work to other communities.
In 2015, Heritage Fund, the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County, launched Landmark Columbus Foundation to care for the values and investments in design excellence that Columbus has made for more than eighty years, so they remain a source of inspiration for future generations. In 2019, we became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Today we work to show what design excellence can mean to a community, with Columbus as the proof.
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Programs
Civic Design Institute
Civic Design Institute defines what design excellence means as a civic practice and shares what we learn with other communities. It gathers, clarifies, and publishes what that practice produces over time.
Progressive Preservation
Progressive Preservation cares for design excellence over time through research, documentation, conservation, and advocacy for culturally significant places in Bartholomew County.
Exhibit Columbus
Exhibit Columbus tests design excellence in public. This biennial public design program, now in its tenth year, commissions site-responsive installations by international architects, designers, and artists, and convenes national conversations about how design strengthens civic life.
Monumental Gestures
Monumental Gestures brings public art and public conversation about civic belonging to communities beyond Columbus. Artistic Director Sarah Urist Green leads the work, which begins in Indianapolis.