FRI-DD4 - Old Redford LINK: Exploring Equity, Engagement and Empowerment in Northwest Detroit

Friday, November 19, 2021

1:30 PM – 4:30 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 208

3.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Brian C. Staresnick, ASLA

Landscape Architect
Land Collective
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana

Speaker(s)

Rachel J. Spencer, ASLA

Landscape Designer
DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michele Flournoy, AIA

Urban Designer / Architect
City of Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
Alicia George

Founder/ Owner
Motor City Java House
Detroit, Michigan
Ryan Myers-Johnson

Executive Director, Curator
Sidewalk Detroit
Southfield, Michigan

3.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

SOLD OUT

Supported by a progressive City planning department empowering citizenry through equitable decision-making, the Northwest Detroit neighborhood of Old Redford is hitting its stride through community-led initiatives. The neighborhood matriarch, a creative place-maker, a Detroit City Planner, and empathy-focused landscape architects explore opportunities for equity, engagement, and empowerment.

Learning Outcomes:

Develop an appreciation on how Art and Community Driven Initiatives are catalysts for re-activating public spaces, insight economic investment, and uplift the human experience.
Gain insight on how practitioners can insert equity in decision making through engagement and inclusion in communities, especially communities of color, when designing public space.
Appreciate the transformational effects on quality of life and neighborhood identity through land use planning and pedestrian safety coupled with the empowerment of resident-led initiatives and neighborhood momentum.
Cultivate lessons and strategies on the level of adaption required for project managers to follow through on a community-centered design.
Explore models of engagement and community-led decision making through the lens of an Empathy Driven Process, demonstrated through a multi-faceted case study.
Gain knowledge on lessons learned around the creative successes and nuances of building Public-Private Partnerships in the Northwest region of Detroit.