Detroit Remains

The urban entrepreneur incubators serve as a node and a new economic model to provide a common space for different enterprises, businessmen to work and develop the city together. The industrial chain of capitalism was broken in late twentieth century and the city as a merchandise/products has been proven to fail. The city, has become a collaborative piece of work by people who are willing to provide services, to reform, and to change.

Makerspace diagrams

Networks diagram

Spatial Analysis

Maker Spaces- Video

Here are our documentary about maker spaces. We interviewed three great organizations in Detroit--- OmniCorpDetroit, Mt. Elliot Makerspace, and i3Detroit. Enjoy the video!

http://youtu.be/8SQRQO7NZeU



Jaxine, Wenye, Jueying


Links:
OmniCorpDetroit/
http://omnicorpdetroit.com/blog/
Mt. Elliot Makerspace/
http://www.mtelliottmakerspace.com/
i3Detroit/
https://www.i3detroit.org/

DETROIT GROWS

Urban agriculture in Detroit operates in a number of different modes and organizational structures, interacting with different sources of funding and land. This documentary focuses on three urban farms, looking at the benefits for the community, the ways in which they are structured, and the characters that operate them.

gen[art] Detroit

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DETROIT

Daniel Fougere | Ryan Goold | Stephanie Yeow

There is a heavy dose of optimism running through the cultural veins of this iron belt city. An invigorating sense of opportunity has brought a young creative constituent into the low-rent urban center of Detroit with dreams of leaving an impact and contributing to the revitalization of this, once booming, metropolis.

Many restaurants and bars are sprouting into renovations of classic structures as well as some new

construction, which are attracting more and more people into living here. However, the real beginning of the invigoration stemmed from a generation of artists, creatives, makers, and doers that livened the streets with their graffiti, turned blight into sculpture, and recalled early-industrial processes as an inspiration for creative making.

Art and culture are essential to the success of any urban city. These groups of artist collectives in Detroit have brought culture and collaboration as their tools against the decaying city. While each group is unique in the spaces they occupy and their contribution to their neighborhoods, they share a common goal to create a self-sustaining network where collective effort can reshape Detroit and the greater metropolitan area.

Art takes to the Street

Some photographs from our walk around Detroit while scouting for places and people to film.

Signal-Return #typeohrama

Had a great time at the TYPE-OH!-RAMA! event at Signal-Return last Friday! ..just a short clip from our raw footage of the event!