Held in Memphis, Tennessee, during the 2017 AIA TN Conference on Architecture and funded by a Memphis Medical District Collaborative grant, urbanSTITCH Community Outreach Program, was the idea of knitting together gaps and pauses in the urban tissue of the city. ”An intentional exercise in healing a neighborhood sliced by progress and paved over. urbanSTITCH promotes a typology of cohesion through a tighter vocabulary of elements which enhance views, streetscape, public safety, and the pedestrian experience.'“

Over 25 architects from across the state worked together to envision the gaps within The Edge district and how those gaps could be connected in order to bring life and vibrancy back to these corridors.