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Roundabout North Chatt: Reimagining our Digital Third-Spaces to strengthen our in-person Communities

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Logan Elmore

Planted this seed

Chattanooga has no shortage of places to get informed on what's happening throughout town, but it can still be hard to find updates that are both accurate and truly neighborhood-specific. It can be even harder to turn that information into real, positive connection with the people who live nearby. Our current digital infrastructure where people share local info (such as local Facebook groups, subreddits, and Nextdoor communities) often blend real information with rumors, outdated posts, and secondhand interpretations, resulting in noise than clarity. ...

Create a vintage WPA-era national park poster illustration of a community project in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a National Park City surrounded by mountains, rivers, and forests.

Composition: Vertical 4:5 poster layout. Bold foreground focal element representing the project. Use either a natural landscape or urban environment, depending on the subject.

Title: our in-person Communities
Subtitle: National Park City

Typography: National park sans-serif, bold font. Sans serifs feel the pull of the Machine Age. Rough, worn, and perfectly imperfect. The individual letterforms do not strictly abide by all typographic rules, but this intentional imperfection adds to its charm. This typeface feels as if it was drawn by hand, just like the hand lettering in the vintage National Park posters. Just the title and subtitle, NO OTHER TEXT in the graphic.

Focus the composition on the project. "Chattanooga has no shortage of places to get informed on what's happening throughout town, but it can still be hard to find updates that are both accurate and truly neighborhood-specific.

It can be even harder to turn that information into real, positive connection with the people who live nearby. Our current digital infrastructure where people share local info (such as local Facebook groups, subreddits, and Nextdoor communities) often blend real information with rumors, outdated posts, and sec". Location: Hixson, Tennessee, United States. Resources available: We are backed in partnership with New_Public, a prosocial tech nonprofit that seeks to create new digital public spaces where people can thrive and connect..

Style: WPA-era screenprinted travel poster. Bold graphic composition, simplified shapes, warm earthy color palette, dramatic light and shadow, mid-century screen print texture, minimal detail but strong silhouettes, layered depth, optimistic and heroic tone, clean vector illustration, retro travel poster design, subtle paper grain texture.

Area Geography: Chattanooga is defined by a dramatic transition from flat river basins to towering plateaus. It features sheer granite and sandstone cliff faces (famous for rock climbing) and hidden subterranean wonders like Ruby Falls. Just west of the Great Smoky Mountains, sharing that iconic blue-mist horizon.

Native wildlife and flora: box turtles, white-tailed deer, red-tailed hawks, eastern bluebirds, tulip poplars, dogwoods, rhododendrons, and mountain laurel.

Activities: Pick activities relevant to the project. People here enjoy mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, kayaking, paddleboarding, trail running, fishing, rollerblading, white water rafting, and community gardening. Weave relevant activities and local nature into the scene.

City life: Chattanooga's urban core is compact, walkable, and layered — historic brick warehouses, Art Deco civic buildings, modern glass infill, pedestrian bridges, riverfront paths, and steep green bluffs all within a small footprint.

Flora & Water: The landscape is carpeted in dense deciduous forests of oak, hickory, and tulip poplars. No pine trees. Hidden in the folds of the rolling hills are moss-covered rolling brooks, limestone swimming holes, and tiered waterfalls that spill over rocky ledges.

Typography: National park sans-serif, bold font. Sans serifs feel the pull of the Machine Age. Rough, worn, and perfectly imperfect. The individual letterforms do not strictly abide by all typographic rules, but this intentional imperfection adds to its charm. This typeface feels as if it was drawn by hand, just like the hand lettering in the vintage National Park posters. Just the title and subtitle, no other text in the graphic.

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Hixson, Tennessee, United States

Because our initial focus is to bridge information and connection gaps in rural areas, we're starting small by focusing on the North Chattanooga region (i.e. Soddy-Daisy, Hixson, Red Bank, Middle Valley, Northshore/Frazier connection into Downtown Chattanooga, etc.). This is not only because I grew up here my entire life, but we are at a unique development stage where a lot of new families are settling here in particular over recent years.

Gardeners

Logan Elmore
New_Public

Roots

Hamilton County Department of Education(not committed yet)
Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce(not committed yet)
Chattanooga Times Free Press(not committed yet)
River City Company(not committed yet)
City of Chattanooga Parks and Recreation(not committed yet)
Chattanooga Tourism Co.(not committed yet)
The Tivoli Theater(not committed yet)
BeCaffeinated Coffee(not committed yet)
NoogaToday(not committed yet)
The Signal Chattanooga(not committed yet)
The Enterprise Center(not committed yet)
Chattamatters(not committed yet)
AVA Chattanooga(not committed yet)
Chattanooga Queer Empowerment Collective(not committed yet)
Chatanooga Public Library(not committed yet)
Soddy-Daisy Public Library(not committed yet)
Reve Coffee and Books(not committed yet)
WTCI Chattanooga(not committed yet)
News Channel 9

Budget

Uncertain

Obstacles

Right now, the challenge isn’t whether people care about their community (that's a given around here), but rather how to make it easier for them to participate in it. We’re working to bring more voices and perspectives into the space, make it easier for neighbors to share useful, local information without it getting lost, and also create an independent digital space that echoes the hospitality that Chattanooga is known for. If you’re someone who: - Already helps others stay in the loop - Organizes events, runs a local business or organization that is deeply supporting the community's needs, or just shares local updates (content creators included!) - Or just wants a better way to stay connected to what’s happening nearby We’d love for you to be part of shaping this to be truly helpful across all aspects of local life. This only works if it’s built with the people who live here.

Sunlight (11 supporters)

Barbara H.Samuel L.Jay O.Aaliya P.Z M.GARY E.