The Wall Walk: Designing Resilience with Community at the Center

Summary:
The Wall Walk was an interactive public engagement exhibit I designed to gather real-time community input on flooding, infrastructure, and long-term resilience planning in Hampton, Virginia.

Using sticky-note prompts, residents voiced frustrations, dreams, and hyper-local insights—creating a literal wall of lived experience. Over 300 pieces of feedback were thematically synthesized into actionable focus areas.

This participatory design event reframed policy development as a process grounded in listening, beauty, and collective intelligence.