Community Development

BAND OF 24 FLAGS

BAND OF 24 CONSULT DOCUMENTS

ICA’s first community project was launched in 5th City, a neighborhood of East Garfield Park in Chicago in 1963. The Band of 24 replicated the 5th City model in Human Development Projects (HDPs) in every time zone around the world, celebrated as a World’s Fair in Kwangyung Il, Korea in 1977.  Three years later with community replication happening in many nations, there were more than 300 HDPs around the world.

Human Development Projects

Human Development Projects (HDPs) focused on involving people in a local community in building an example of what a “new social vehicle for planet Earth” would look like within a small geographical area. While trade, technology and infrastructure influence social change, the HDPs were aimed at harnessing the “human element” through motivating residents, releasing their creativity and building leadership skills to empower them in the task of comprehensive change.