Detroit’s “Prophetic Aesthetic”: Architecture as Politics at IdeasCity 2016


“Building a ‘Gap’ on Woodward Avenue is not progress.” Using an example that everyone can relate to, dream hampton’s assessment of Detroit’s latest development sums up the tone of this year’s IdeasCity conference hosted by Detroit for the first time. The daylong public conference followed a week of project design and discussion by 40 chosen “fellows” and included presentations of their ideas as well as bigger-name speakers on the city’s future. Conversations focused on the role of the architect in policy, the potential of the interdisciplinary and how to allow for dynamism in a city without erasing its history. The conference was held in the Jam Handy, formerly used for filming car commercials and now used as an event and community space. The building itself is an example of the evolution of different spaces in Detroit, and its high ceilings and location just off the historic Virginia Park neighborhood made it a fitting base. The week of work done by the Ideas City fellows took place in the Herman Kiefer Hospital, a similarly repurposed site (the building was a public hospital until 2013). Detroit’s Herman Kiefer Hospital, the site of IdeasCity’s fellowship lab; courtesy of Justin ... , Emma Macdonald, read more http://ift.tt/26TFMuj

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