As I sit down to write this, the world around us is going through a reckoning with racism and a crisis of capitalism, all while navigating a world wide pandemic. With so much going on, it can be difficult to wrap your brain around the causes and impacts of one of these events, let alone […]
Challenge #5 with Brightmoor Makerspace
In a world where furniture gets delivered, water gets bottled, and homes come pre-assembled, we can get really disconnected from building our own stuff. But in Brightmoor, Bart Eddy and his crew at the Brightmoor Makerspace, a collection of buildings on the Detroit Community Schools campus that have been transformed into […]
It’s February in Detroit.
The feel good days of winter are long gone. The holiday cheer that flowed through the City, making it look like a Hallmark movie, has been replaced by a grey cloud that hangs over the region like a moody instagram filter.
As we power through another long winter it would be easy for […]
“We were blown away by how confident and leadership-driven DPSCD students are, and they were extremely kind and caring of each other. Our key insight from the project was that today’s youth in Detroit want their voices to be heard and that they want the opportunity to speak at a youth conference, not only be […]
