This two-year collaboration empowered St. Louisans to develop community-oriented, design-driven approaches to racial and socio-economic disparities in St. Louis. This series of programs was inspired by a 2012 news segment “Crossing a St. Louis Street that Divides Communities”, produced by Franz Strasser, a BBC reporter, which acknowledged the disparities in economics, education, and population that exist to the north and south of Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis City. Strasser’s report called attention to underlying topics of race and class of which residents were aware, but to which they had not offered their own voices. Working in conjunction with the Missouri History Museum and the Anti-Defamation League, Crossing the Delmar Divide looked for ways to bridge groups of people literally separated by a street.
