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DETROIT COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CENTER Annual Report DIRECTORS’ LETTER OUR TEAM The Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) at the University of Current DCDC Staff Detroit Mercy School of Architecture has seen a year of transition. In Josh Budiongan, Designer & Project Manager the last year we have stepped into the roles of Co-Executive Directors. Charles Cross, Director of Landscape Design 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 space 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 Designers 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 Tatyana Mourad We look forward to fully living into 2020! Alexa Perez-Bermudez Kiyone Tuazon Ceara O’Leary Christina Heximer Josh Budiongan Charles Cross Toni Henry Julia Kowalski Design is an act of HOW WE WORK 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 designs 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 Urban 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 design research 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 Over the last 25 years we Vogel, FAIA. For our 20th birthday we threw a big 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. 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The plaza, dedicated to a sculptural posts and seating areas. DCDC facilitated community leader, supports community gatherings, Brilliant Detroit North Central & Century Forward Replay Garden the engagement process and is the project designer. small business growth, and the arts and culture of the Brightmoor Outdoor Community Spaces This project helped re-envision three vacant neighborhood. Partners: Progressive Neighborhood Designers, DCDC is working with Brilliant Detroit and residential lots into a community gathering space Grove Hall CDC, LaTanya Garrett, 7th District Partners: Grace in Action Collectives, Et.Al neighborhood stakeholders in two Detroit with an emphasis on a natural play space for young Michigan House of Representatives, livingLAB, Collaborative, Proxy By Design neighborhoods, North Central and Brightmoor, to children. The design includes a raised deck with play Michigan Economic Development Corporation design outdoor community spaces adjacent to Brilliant fort and play elements derived from nature: boulders, Detroit’s houses. DCDC facilitated a community tree stumps, and slak-line. DCDC conducted North Rosedale Park Community House engaged design process to determine residents’ extensive youth engagement with nearly 600 students Franklin-Wright Settlements Outdoor Space Plaza priorities for the two outdoor spaces. from Bethune Elementary and Middle School and adults from the community shared additional The project visualizes an outdoor community space As the North Rosedale Park Civic Associationsought Partners: Brilliant Detroit, Ron Omilian feedback. adjacent to the Franklin-Wright Settlement facility to frame their newly acquired sculpture by renown located in Detroit’s McDougall-Hunt Neighborhood. artist Charles McGee, this plaza project reimagined Partners: Century Forward, Bethune Elementary, The space includes native landscaping, places for the outdoor space of their community house at large. Turner Street neighbors 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 visualization 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. 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DCDC coordinated project for planning in Detroit’s less dense neighborhoods. Redevelopment Implementation Plan charts a for revitalization of vacant space into productive activities and convened resident leaders. DCDC led the planning work, plugging into existing course toward a sustainable set of strategies that landscapes, neighborhood hubs, connecting green community engagement efforts. 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 RCC is a national multi-year collaborative funding Guidelines & Urban Design Standards 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 Economic Growth Corporation Center, Data Driven Detroit, Michigan Energy Partners: Eastside Community Network, 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 participatory design process centered around the adolescent youth community of Southwest Detroit, and helped UNI determine the best use of an unrenovated portion in their Lawndale I2C Conceptual Design Renderings Center building. The project, co-designed with their Youth Advisory Board, 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 Advisory Board platform, ramp, and New main entry off 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 Development Advocates of Detroit and Hamilton Anderson Associates covered bike parking! lunch, taking a call or having a meeting. Are you going to the to develop a conceptual design for the renovation/reconfiguration of the presentation on new mobility technologies? existing building and site. I heard they’re going to 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 Conceptual Plaza Entry Rendering 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 Participatory Design Process Facilitated by: In Partnership with: Detroit Collaborative Design Center School of Architecture