Project Overview
The Innovation Walk is an ambitious project aimed at transforming a meandering waterside park pathway in historic downtown Fort Myers into a WalkScape and educational experience celebrating human innovation. We are seeking proposals from talented innovators, designers, and artists to develop meaningful, durable, and engaging installations that provide the pedestrian viewers with experiences stimulating critical contemplation, curiosity and hope.
In celebration of human ingenuity and innovation, we seek to populate a mile-long park walkway with installations and experiences that intrigue and challenge, that push the limits of what we know, reveal the invisible, encourage community cohesion and open internal getaways of optimism and curiosity. Situated in the heart of historic downtown Fort Myers and following the verdant banks of the Caloosahatchee River, this project is more than a walkway; it is a journey into the territory of innovation, imagination, disruptive technologies, hope and inspiration.
The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency, along with the Edison Awards, invites creative minds from across the globe – visionaries, innovators, artists, and futurists – to propose contributions to this canvas of urban transformation and placemaking. We seek proposals that embody the spirit of innovation, resonate with the history and culture of Fort Myers, and lay down a path of insight, inspiration, discovery and possibility for generations to come.