✤ Columbus, Indiana
Prove It
A National Summit on
Design Excellence as Civic Practice
Civic and design leaders gather in Columbus October 8–10, as Indiana makes unprecedented investments in quality of place—and asks harder questions about what creates lasting civic value.
✦ Dates
October 8–10, 2026
✴ Venue
The Commons
Columbus, Indiana
✽ In partnership with
Indiana Economic Development Corporation and Indiana Arts Commission
❖ Launching
The Indiana Quality of Place Learning Partnership
✱ Why now
Indiana is investing at a scale it has never seen before.
Civic Design Institute is bringing civic leaders, designers, researchers, funders, and policymakers together in Columbus to ask a single question: how can Indiana ensure these investments create lasting value for communities?
Prove It uses this moment of statewide momentum to examine what makes thoughtful, enduring places possible, and how their civic and economic value can be better understood and measured.