DETROIT COLLABORATIVE CENTER Annual Report DIRECTORS’ LETTER OUR TEAM

The Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) at the University of Current DCDC Staff Detroit Mercy School of has seen a year of transition. In Josh Budiongan, & Project Manager the last year we have stepped into the roles of Co-Executive Directors. Charles Cross, Director of Combined, we have been with DCDC for over 25 years and we are Toni Henry, Designer & Project Manager excited for the opportunity to continue to lead the office into our next Christina Heximer, Co-Executive Director chapter. After 20 years of transformational leadership, Dan Pitera moved Julia Kowalski, Designer & Project Manager into the role of Dean of the School of Architecture at Detroit Mercy! We Brigette Murphy, Business Manager love that he will continue to be a champion for our collective work at Ceara O’Leary, Co-Executive Director DCDC. Transitions! This year we also co-launched our second office off-campus at Dan Pitera, DCDC Executive Director 1999-2019, is now the Dean of the Neighborhood HomeBase on McNichols Road. We are so pleased to University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture share this with Live6 and community programs and events. Rebecca “Bucky” Willis left DCDC after seven years to pursue In this moment of transition, we have also taken the opportunity to research opportunities embark on a strategic planning process led by DCDC staff. Through this process we have reaffirmed our values and work ethic while articulating 2019 Emerging internal and external goals for our team. Andrew Ashby Nicole Fricke This process has also helped jump start new traditions, including this Raquel Charrier annual report. We have also reaffirmed our commitment to longstanding traditions that are at the core of our work – building strong relationships 2019 Student Designers with community partners, educating the next generation of public interest Suliaman Bangura designers, and working toward greater access to community-engaged Shajnin Dristy design citywide. Angela Lazarte We look forward to fully living into 2020! Tatyana Mourad Alexa Perez-Bermudez Kiyone Tuazon

Ceara O’Leary

Christina Heximer Josh Budiongan Charles Cross Toni Henry Julia Kowalski HOW WE WORK Design is an act of

social justice. Mission The Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) is a multi- All people have the right to well designed, healthy spaces and disciplinary, nonprofit design center located in the University of neighborhoods. DCDC works with communities who typically Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture. DCDC exists to bring are left out of design decision or do not have access to high high-quality and community-engaged design to all neighborhoods in quality design. DCDC facilitates an open and transparent Detroit. We do this by engaging, educating and promoting equity in process that builds trust and strives to include as many diverse design processes and outcomes. voices from a community as possible. These perspectives are intentionally integrated into all to ensure that the spaces Vision and neighborhoods reflect the spirit of the individuals Every person has access to well designed, healthy spaces and and their communities. neighborhoods and has an active role in the decision-making that impacts their community.

Services We work with community partners citywide on a range of projects at different scales, prioritizing participation in the planning and design process with the belief that local expertise leads to the best ideas. Our services include: Architectural design Landscape design Neighborhood planning Infrastructure strategy Community engagement Capacity building Small scale installation design

Our Office Values • Meaningful, authentic engagement that celebrates local expertise • Equitable spaces and sustainable solutions that prioritize quality design and access for everyone • Collaboration built upon partnerships and relationships • Celebrate histories, local culture, and stories of staff and partners • Educating designers and supporting diversity in design professions • Local capacity building • Public interest and knowledge sharing • Professional development and growth opportunities • Healthy, mindful office culture • Foster creativity, fun and playfulness 25 years! In 2019 we celebrated twenty five years since DCDC was founded by former University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture Dean Stephen Vogel, FAIA. For our 20th birthday we threw a big Over the last 25 years we party at the Detroit Public Library. Since then, in the have worked with nearly five years between 2014 and 2018, we worked with over 125 partners on 60 projects. In 2019 alone we 300 partners on almost worked on 28 projects.

200 projects. The map below illustrates all of our Detroit projects. 2019 projects are also detailed in the following pages.

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/113iY7bltmuEjKhqrLVzpbge6njVVFUG5 1/2 Fenkell Beautification Project Grace in Action Community Plaza LANDSCAPE DESIGN This project features landscape beautification Plaza Villelobos is a multi-use community plaza that elements for a vacant block of Fenkell Avenue in transformed Grace in Action’s corner parking lot into northwest Detroit, including a walking path, trees, an active pedestrian space. The plaza, dedicated to a Brilliant Detroit North Central & Century Forward Replay Garden sculptural posts and seating areas. DCDC facilitated community leader, supports community gatherings, Brightmoor Outdoor Community Spaces the engagement process and is the project designer. small business growth, and the arts and culture of the This project helped re-envision three vacant neighborhood. DCDC is working with Brilliant Detroit and residential lots into a community gathering space Partners: Progressive Neighborhood Designers, neighborhood stakeholders in two Detroit with an emphasis on a natural play space for young Grove Hall CDC, LaTanya Garrett, 7th District Partners: Grace in Action Collectives, Et.Al neighborhoods, North Central and Brightmoor, to children. The design includes a raised deck with play Michigan House of Representatives, livingLAB, Collaborative, Proxy By Design design outdoor community spaces adjacent to Brilliant fort and play elements derived from nature: boulders, Michigan Economic Development Corporation Detroit’s houses. DCDC facilitated a community tree stumps, and slak-line. DCDC conducted engaged design process to determine residents’ extensive youth engagement with nearly 600 students North Rosedale Park Community House priorities for the two outdoor spaces. from Bethune Elementary and Middle School Franklin-Wright Settlements Outdoor Space Plaza and adults from the community shared additional Partners: Brilliant Detroit, Ron Omilian The project visualizes an outdoor community space As the North Rosedale Park Civic Associationsought feedback. adjacent to the Franklin-Wright Settlement facility to frame their newly acquired sculpture by renown Partners: Century Forward, Bethune Elementary, located in Detroit’s McDougall-Hunt Neighborhood. artist Charles McGee, this plaza project reimagined Turner Street neighbors The space includes native landscaping, places for the outdoor space of their community house at large. people to sit and gather, a splash pad and artistic The plaza contains the Charles McGee installation, hardscape. DCDC developed the conceptual design rain gardens and native plantings, and event space and for the space. that overlooks the athletic fields beyond. Partners: Franklin-Wright Settlements Partners: North Rosedale Park Civic Association, Environmental Consulting and Technology, Inc.

Sacred Grounds in Detroit This program of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) promotes education of our natural spaces and the values of pollinator habitats in the urban setting. Five houses of worship were awarded small grants to install pollinator habitats that were designed by DCDC after a collaborative group workshop process with the 2019 grant awardees. In 2020, DCDC and NWF will work with 8 additional houses of worship. Partners: National Wildlife Federation, Christ the King, Meditation Methodist Baptist Church, Holy Redeemer, St Paul of the Cross, Citadel of Praise Ru s s e ll Woods

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naw Quincy Structures Otsego Beverly Ct acki Petoskey This resident-led initiative focused on Ella Fitzgerald N Martindale St M This planning study lays the groundwork for https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/113iY7bltmuEjKhqrLVzpbge6njVVFUG5 1/2 Park programming including monthly activity future planning and implementation of open days led by local residents and movie nights. space strategies in the Good Stock area, building McDougall-Hunt Neighborhood Sustainable Nardin Park Improvement Rock The creative alleyway revitalization includes alley upon neighborhood strengths, seeking sustainable Redevelopment Implementation Plan Neighborhood Plan clearing, installation of solar lights and the addition solutions for vacant land, and setting a precedent of neighborhood stars. DCDC coordinated project for planning in Detroit’s less dense neighborhoods. The McDougall-Hunt Neighborhood Sustainable The neighborhood plan includes opportunities activities and convened resident leaders. DCDC led the planning work, plugging into existing Redevelopment Implementation Plan charts a for revitalization of vacant space into productive community engagement efforts. course toward a sustainable set of strategies that landscapes, neighborhood hubs, connecting green Partners: Fitzgerald neighborhood leaders work together to envision a holistic neighborhood paths, housing development, and mixed use and residents, College Core Block Club, Ryter Partners: Eastside Community Network, Good future that is driven by McDougall-Hunt community development in the Nardin Park neighborhood. Cooperative Industries, Motor City Grounds Crew, Stock Steering Committee members. DCDC led the planning process and DCDC facilitated an engagement process and asset Soulardarity, The Kresge Foundation, the City deliverables, plugging into an existing engagement identification with stakeholders, and developed an of Detroit ecosystem. opportunities map for revitalization of open space and vacant properties in the neighborhood. Partners: Eastside Community Network, McDougall Hunt Neighborhood Association, Partners: Nardin Park Improvement Rock & City Bailey Park Project, Data Driven Detroit, Cinnaire, of Detroit Planning and Development Department Alternative Foundation

North Corktown Open/Green Spaces Reimagining the Civic Commons (RCC) Project Character and Sense of Place Guidelines & Urban Design Standards RCC is a national multi-year collaborative funding initiative that invests in civic assets to foster These design guidelines are a North Corktown engagement, equity, environmental sustainability resident-driven document that illustrate the and economic development. In Detroit, this work is character and/or sense of place prioritized by the focused in and around the Fitzgerald neighborhood community as the neighborhood undergoes future and is led by the City of Detroit. DCDC changes. DCDC contributed to the community contributes as a founding participant, community engagement process led by Mission Lift and led the connector and local learning partner. development of the guidelines. Partners: Live6 Alliance, Invest Detroit, City of Partners: Heritage Works, North Corktown Detroit, Greening of Detroit, Reimagining the Neighborhood Association Civic Commons CITYWIDE INFRASTRUCTURE

Amplify Art Detroit: Action Planning for Detroit Solar Feasibility Assessment Land Based Projects: A Pathway to Offsite Green Stormwater Infrastructure Arts, Culture, Entertainment Purchase, Permit and Design (GSI) in the Goodstock Neighborhood This work to assess citywide solar feasibility for Proof of Concept Study This planning effort will inform how cultural the City of Detroit included an interactive Online The City of Detroit is currently working policy and city departments support artists Solar Capacity Map, an Equity Solar Deployment to improve the process for purchasing and This study examines opportunities to leverage and the creative economy in Detroit. DCDC Guide, a Solar Policy Deployment Guide, and permitting land based projects. A land based green stormwater infrastructure investments supported the community engagement to inform financial modeling of solar deployment strategies project uses land for urban agriculture, gardening, in Detroit’s Goodstock neighborhood to the effort and initiative. for the City. DCDC developed solar design beautification and other productive uses, generate multiple benefits for investors and the guidelines, diagrammatic renderings and a whether for profit or as a community based community. DCDC authored the study and led Partners: Lord Cultural Resources, permitting process map. activity. DCDC led the community engagement an interdisciplinary team representing landscape rootoftwo, City of Detroit Arts, Culture, and that informed how the City of Detroit could design, stormwater analysis, legal and financial Entrepreneurship Department, City of Detroit Partners: City of Detroit, Elevate Energy, streamline their approval processes to help strategies. Planning and Development Department, Detroit EcoWorks, Great Lakes Environmental Law community members navigate the pathway to Partners: Eastside Community Network, Economic Growth Corporation Center, Data Driven Detroit, Michigan Energy achieving their project. Options InSite Design Studio, Great Lakes Environmental Partners: City of Detroit, Akasura Robinson, Law Center, Zachary & Associates, Erb Family Agency Landscape & Planning, Detroit Food Foundation Policy Council, Keep Growing Detroit, The Work Department ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Fenkell Street Artist Studio & Loft The project includes the renovation of an existing building on the corner of Fenkell and Normandy into artist studios and lofts. DCDC developed the conceptual layout and a rendering of the concept. Partners: Sharnita Johnson

Neighborhood HomeBase Neighborhood HomeBase is a community gathering space and shared office space for the Live6 Alliance, DCDC, and several “hot desks” for various City of Detroit departments working in the district and other non-profit organizations. DCDC worked with the Live6 Alliance and partnering architect, Timothea Miller Wittig to develop the design through construction. Partners: Live6 Alliance, Timothea Miller Wittig, Jenkins Construction, University of Detroit Mercy Facilities Operations, Kristin Nelson, James Leach, HuronMade LLC.

San Juan Fitzgerald Pavilion A Detroit Mercy School of Architecture (SOA) vertical architectural design studio and DCDC have worked with the San Juan Block Club and residents in Detroit’s Fitzgerald neighborhood to design and construct a covered park pavilion for a neighborhood hub along San Juan Street. Partners: San Juan Block Club, INTOTO Studio, HuronMade LLC, City of Detroit, Detroit Mercy School of Architecture ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, CONT’D.

UNI Lawndale Center This project involved a process centered around the adolescent youth community of Southwest Detroit, and helped UNI determine the best use of an unrenovated portion in their Lawndale Center building. The project,I2C co-designed Conceptual with their Youth Advisory Design Board, Renderings allowed UNI to expand from their youth services into a new space that better fit the programmatic needs of their adolescent community.

Partners: Urban Neighborhood Initiatives (UNI), UNI Youth New outdoor raised platform, ramp, and New main entry off Advisory Board stairs to access new of plaza with metal New metal entrance panel screen panels

Wayne State University Industry Innovation Center The project is a conceptual architectural and landscape design for the former NextEnergy building and site in Detroit’s New Center area. The building and site will be a place where university, industry and the surrounding community can come together to collaborate. The project also included the implementation of a series of short-term activations to test ideas for making the site more open and welcoming. DCDC I2C is a 5-minute bike ride from main campus. The new outdoor facilitated the participatory design process in partnership with Community I’m so glad there’s space is great for eating covered bike parking! lunch, taking a call or Development Advocates of Detroit and Hamilton Anderson Associates having a meeting. Are you going to the presentation on new to develop a conceptual design for the renovation/reconfiguration of the mobility technologies? I heard they’re going to existing building and site. announce a challenge. Partners: TechTown Detroit, Wayne State University, Proxy, Community Development Advocates of Detroit, Hamilton Anderson Associates, DiClemente Siegel Design Inc., & Turner Construction Company

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New lunch counter with prep New entry off of Movable tables kitchen behind Second Avenue

I’m really interested in I’m so glad there’s a door off the work you’re doing in of Second. It’s much easier to your lab. It relates to the get to my office when there’s research I am doing for one an event in here. of my classes. What project are you working on in the Lab?

Conceptual Interior Event/Flex Space Rendering

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Brightmoor Quality Initiative Indoor/Outdoor Hope Starts Here Engagement and Advocacy Brilliant Detroit Small Playscape Woodbridge Community Bulletin Boards Early Childhood Education Site Improvement Network Designed for the young children ages 18 months to 3 Woodbridge Neighborhood Development The purpose of the field trip and workshop was to DCDC is one partner working on the Detroit years of age, this small playscape facilitates motor skills Corporation is working to create more ways for spark Brightmoor Early Childhood Education (ECE) Champions for HOPE, a network of parents, caregivers, and playing games such as peak-a-boo. The four panels neighbors to communicate and share information. providers’ interest in outdoor natural play spaces. families and organizations advocating for children’s can be reconfigured and rearranged for both indoor DCDC fabricated three bulletin boards for the DCDC developed and facilitated a day-long workshop positive development. and outdoor play and (in collaboration with a local community, featuring space for public posting, as well with Brightmoor ECE providers at the Nature Preschool artist) will be painted with colorful characters. as art by local students and professional artists. in Midland Michigan’s Chippewa Nature Center. Partners: Impact Detroit, Purposeful Journey, Black Family Development, Detroit Parent Network, J Partners: Brilliant Detroit, Artist: Carl Oxley 3 a.k.a Partners: Woodbridge Neighborhood Partners: IFF & Brightmoor Quality Initiative Winston Group, Maria Montoya, James Ribbron, The POPARTMONKEY Development Corporation Village Providing Comfortable Living LLC

Marygrove P-20 Cradle-to-Career Campus Community Engagement Framework DCDC designed, facilitated, and implemented a community engagement framework to inform the overall cradle-to-career campus concept on Marygrove campus as well as individual partners’ programs. Partners: The Kresge Foundation, Marygrove Conservancy, Marygrove College, Starfish Family Services, Development Centers, Inc., IFF, Detroit Public Schools Community District, University of Michigan TEACHING

Co-op Program Every semester DCDC hires two-to-four School of Architecture students who have a co-op work experience as part of their degree. Student designers work alongside DCDC staff learning about community-engaged design by doing. We consider this part of our teaching commitment within the school and for the next generation of community-engaged designers.

Public Interest Design Studios DCDC staff teaches Public Interest Design (PID) architecture studios in the School of Architecture curriculum every year, focusing on a Detroit project with community and collaborative implications. This year’s studios are included below: Photo credit: The Detroit News • Fostering Intergenerational Community, Toni Henry + Erin Porter Winter Studio 2019 • Public Re-Purpose, Ceara O’Leary, Fall Studio 2019 Master of Community Development Program DCDC staff also teach and speak in the Master of Community Development Program. This year multiple staff guest lectured in MCD courses and taught the following courses: • Introduction to Physical Development, Summer 2019 • History, Theory and Practice of Community Engagement, Summer 2019 • Master of Community Development Workshop Series, Winter, Summer, Fall 2019

Faculty Collaboration DCDC currently collaborates with faculty practice from time to time on projects throughout the city. We are looking to grow this practice further and develop a model for ongoing collaboration that benefits the DCDC, faculty, students and community partners.

High School Interns This past summer DCDC hosted a high school student interested in design and staff are occasionally shadowed by students interested in our work. In 2020, DCDC will grow this experience and formalize a P high school internship program in an effort to mentor Detroit high schoolers interested in design and provide aspiring designers their Student work by Kiyone Tuazon & Tatyana Mourad first job in the field. TRANSPORTATION HUB

WATER COLLECTION

LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1/16” KNOWLEDGE SHARING Photo credit: Jess Zimbabwe

Presentations at Conferences • AIA National Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 2019 • ACSA 107th Annual Meeting: “Avis + Elsmere: Time as a for Community” • Knight Public Spaces Forum, Philadelphia, PA, June 2019 & Panel Discussion on Teaching Community Engagement, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019 • Ecodistrict Summit, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2019 • Legacy Cities Community of Practice Convening 2; “Innovations in Community • Civic Commons Capstone, Washington DC, December 2019 Engagement,” Akron, OH, March 2019 • Association for Community Design 42nd Annual Conference: People+ in Greenwood, Presentations to Visiting Groups and Students: MS, June 2019, “Diversifying the Professional Development Pipeline,” “People of Color • University of Michigan, international researchers for a food-water-energy workshop, Birthing New Design Genres,” “The Detroit Collaborative Design Center: Engaging SUGI FEW program, July 2019 Youth for Equitable Outcomes” + “Evaluating Engagement” • Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy, November 2019 • Community Development Symposium: “Cultural Asset Mapping in International • Masters of Community Development Program, University of Detroit Mercy: Cultural Programs: Cuba and Brazil,” Detroit, MI, May 2019 Asset Mapping in Brazil, Detroit, MI, April 2019 • National Organization of Minority Architects Annual Conference: Believe the Hype in • Presentation to Challenge Detroit Fellows, “Community Engagement Best Practices,” Brooklyn, NY August 2019, “Loving Strangers through the Built Environment,” “Engaging Detroit, MI, September 2019 Youth for Equitable Outcomes” • Denmark + US Travel + Talk, September 2019 • ACSA Fall Conference: “Co-Creation: Collaborative Design Practice as Pedagogy,” Stanford, CA, September 2019 • Presentation to University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture Students, “Lunch and Learn with DCDC,” Detroit, MI, November 2019 • Better World by Design, “Meeting People Where They Are At: Community Engagement that Interrupts Daily Rhythms,” Providence, RI, September 2019 Boards and Committees: • Detroit Sustainability Forum, “Treehouses and Learning Landscapes,” Detroit, MI, • 2019 Chair, AIA Housing Knowledge Community Advisory Group October 2019 • Wayne State University Transformative Research in Urban Sustainability and Training • Bioneers, “Collaborating with Youth for Future Generations,” Detroit, MI, October Advisory Board 2019 • USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant, “Building Capacity and Diffusing Innovation • Symposium: Commons and Communities, panel discussion on “How do we in Community Development Education,” Co-Principle Investigator practice for sharing, collaboration, empowerment and engagement in communities,” • Association for Community Design, Board Member Copenhagen, November 2019 • Bleeding Heart Design, Board Secretary • American Society of Landscape Architects National Conference: “Achieving Diversity, • Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, Board President Inclusion and Equity: Black Landscape Architects Panel Discussion,” San Diego, CA, November 2019 • American Institute of Architecture Committee on the Environment, Co-Chair and Fundraising Lead Conference Planning • Restor’n E. Warren, Resident Participant • Bioneers, Program Planning Committee, October 2019 • Dunamis Community Development Corporation, Board Member • Community Development Education Symposium, Co-Lead Organizer, May 2019 • Black Landscape Architects Network Advisory Committee Participation in Conferences: • Denby Neighborhood Alliance Advisory Committee • Detroit Food Summit, March 2019 • University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture Thesis Advisor KNOWLEDGE SHARING THANK YOU!

Papers/Publications: Community Partners • 2019 ACSA/AIA Intersections Symposium: “Time as a Design Tool Our work would not be possible without our amazing community for Community,” Co-authored with Tadd Heidgerken partners, whom we work alongside to develop community • ACSA Fall Conference: “Co-Creation: Collaborative Design engagement processes and design projects. We deeply value our Practice as Pedagogy,” Co-authored with Ann Yaochim ongoing relationships and the trust partners bring to the process. • “Shifting to an Equitable Development Framework” chapter in Funding Partners Teaching and Designing in Detroit Ten Women on Pedagogy and Practice We are also thankful for a funding community that supports our edited by Stephen Vogel and Libby Balter Blume work and that of our community partners. We consider our funding partners as thought partners and allies in this work. Exhibits • Detroit Design 139 Inclusive Futures Stephen Vogel, FAIA • American Institute of Architects Detroit (AIA) Celebration of DCDC would not exist without the vision and determination of our Architecture, Office Showcase founder, former Dean Steve Vogel, FAIA. • AIA Detroit Future Focus 2019 Emerging Designer Exhibition Dan Pitera, FAIA Awards We are particularly blessed by the leadership of Dan Pitera over the • 2019 AIA/HUD Secretary’s Award Community-Informed Design last twenty years. He made an indelible mark on DCDC, crafted our Award, Avis and Elsmere role in the city, and championed the relationships we hold dear. • 2019 AIA Detroit Architectural Honor Awards Small Project, Avis and Elsmere Detroit Collaborative Design Center University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture Facebook @DCDC.UDM Instagram @dcdc_udm Cover photo by Harry Connolly