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- 2020 Detroit Month of Design Media Kit
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In celebration of Detroit’s designation as the first and only UNESCO City of Design in the United States, Design Core Detroit will host Detroit Month of Design (MoD) from September 1-30, 2020. More than 175 participants will present over 65 events and special projects. This year’s programming includes talks, tours, exhibitions, workshops, installations and more. While much of the programming will take place digitally, all in-person events will follow the guidelines for group gatherings set by the State of Michigan to ensure the health and safety of all participants. Design Core Detroit sees designers as creative problem-solvers who can work hand-in-hand with business, government and communities to develop human-centered and practical solutions. In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial inequality, design solutions that prioritize inclusivity, adaptability and equity have never been more important. This year’s programming will reflect on and explore design solutions to the myriad of challenges faced by Detroit and the global community since the start of 2020. |
Author: Adina Glickstein |
Date: July 29, 2020 |
Adina Glickstein
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Twelve naturally dyed, handwoven tapestries on the Dequindre Cut (1905 Alfred St Detroit), created using plants grown and foraged in Detroit and woven with natural fibers. The exhibition is the culmination of a year-long study of local natural dye plants and is a representation of the abundant natural world in our urban environment. The tapestries will endure the sun and the wind and the rain, serving as an artifact of time and place.
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Aleiya Lindsey
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DTE’s Beacon Park, in partnership with the Downtown Detroit Partnership, Mindfield, and TLS Productions is proud to showcase “Detroit Tribute In Light”, a community-centric video and light event honoring the courage Detroiters.
Adina Glickstein
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Emphasizing daily relationships to material, Softhouse aims to facilitate the rethinking of objects. Rather than strictly polished, finished, and rigid structures, the focus is placed on items that are humble at glance but develop personalities that mature with time and interaction. Here, the storyline is favored over the end result, and the users’ interaction with the works involve as much observing as using.
Carrie Paveglio
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BUILDING MATERIALS is a site-specific exhibition by Lindsay Splichal exploring printmaking, sculpture, and installation as reflections of the location’s unique architecture. Splichal creates space-responsive print monotypes through the lenses of sculptural and print installation, alongside scalable, low-cost, high-labor take-aways. The exhibition requires and reflects on space, and in response, the space extends the work to present non-traditional orientations of building materials that reflect on the familiarity of the domestic in her family’s construction heritage.
Carrie Paveglio
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Never Normal, curated by Form&Seek, expresses the ever-changing views of the designer's perspective on the built world. The future seems inscrutable, provoking us to think of the possibilities for change in human behaviors and our environment. Looking away from the conventional means of solving problems, the works in this exhibition seek to reevaluate our personal relationships with our domestic landscape.
Installation image of Evan Fay's Lawless Series. Photo by Clare Gatto, courtesy of the artist.
Aleiya Lindsey
Files: 37
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*All in-person events will follow the guidelines for group gatherings set by the State of Michigan. Our event organizers are taking careful measures to ensure a safe Detroit Month of Design experience. Measures include small private tours of exhibitions, virtual streaming options, outdoor experiences, no-touch installations, timed ticket entry, mask requirements, heightened sanitation practices and more.
Adina Glickstein
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Design impacts everyone, for better or for worse. Each week we invite designers, changemakers and the curious to participate in a spirited conversation on how design can be used to create conditions for better quality of life and economic opportunity.
Aleiya Lindsey
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Every September since 2010, partners across Detroit—from emerging studios to established companies and educational institutions—come together to show off their latest works and ideas. These cross-disciplinary events take place in all corners of the city, highlighting the talent and innovation that makes Detroit a UNESCO City of Design.
Adina Glickstein
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Design Core Detroit sees designers as creative problem-solvers who can work hand-in-hand with business, government and communities to develop human-centered and practical solutions.
"Vessel," Cody Norman
Photo by Amy Rae Mathis
Adina Glickstein
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Design Core Detroit will release the Design Guide for Real Estate Development—a book that aims to strengthen the working relationship between real estate developers and designers by offering actionable tools to ensure every project is attractive, financially profitable and beneficial to the community.
Aleiya Lindsey
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Design Core Detroit has selected the winners of its new Design in the City competition, made possible by a $45,000 grant from Gucci as a part of its new Changemakers Impact Fund. Design in the City will be on view September 1-30, 2020 during the 10-year anniversary edition of Detroit Month of Design.
Aleiya Lindsey
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"Art on the Avenue," Livernois Avenue
Art on the Avenue is a collaborative effort between all businesses on Livernois from 6 Mile to 8 Mile. We aim to provide a fun, art-related activities for all ages. The purpose of this event is to celebrate Detroit art and black-owned businesses.
Image courtesy of Gerard + Belevender.
"Local Color," Kayla Powers
Local Color invites visitors to experience the abundance of the natural world in Detroit in the form of plant-dyed, handwoven textiles. Using plants grown and foraged in Detroit, weaver Kayla Powers has hand-dyed wool and woven a series of tapestries that will hang in a free, outdoor, public installation on The Dequindre Cut.
Image courtesy of Salt Textile Studios.
"Science Gallery Detroit presents Shigeto," Science Gallery Detroit
Science Gallery Detroit presents Ghostly International recording artist Shigeto performing a uniquely created live set specific to the Future Present: Design in a Time of Urgency exhibition. This special event is presented in support of both Detroit Month of Design and the Ars Electronica Festival.
Image courtesy of Gerard + Belevender.
"Sukkah x Detroit," Downtown Synagogue (2018)
See more Detroit Month of Design images from years past here.
Image courtesy of Gerard + Belevender.
"Albert Kahn's Detroit," Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.
Join Albert Kahn aficionados walking tour of several of Kahn's most iconic buildings in the heart of downtown. In celebration of our 125th anniversary, we will launch a free interactive app that geolocates Albert Kahn projects in Detroit, the United States, and around the globe. Participants will receive early access to this app to download.
Image courtesy of Gerard + Belevender.
"LA Ride," Michigan Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (MiASLA)
The LA RIDE is an educational bicycle tour of the notable award-winning project sites that involved landscape architects in the programming, site design, and construction. The ride is open to students, faculty, allied professionals, and the general public. Participants are able to interact with the designers as they describe their masterpieces live and in person.
Image courtesy of Gerard + Belevender.
"Sukkah x Detroit," Downtown Synagogue (2018)
See more Detroit Month of Design images from years past here.
Image courtesy of Gerard + Belevender.
"The Architecture of Convenience," Gina Iacobelli
The Architecture of Convenience is an exhibition, curated by Gina Iacobelli, that investigates the material presence of urban infrastructure through the works of two Detroit contemporary artists. Using the works of Toby Millman and Bridget Quinn, the exhibition emphasizes the presence of infrastructure and the way it interfaces with lived human experience.
Image courtesy of LTU Detroit Center for Design & Technology
"Never Normal," Form&Seek
Never Normal, curated by Form&Seek, is an exhibition that expresses the ever-changing viewpoint of the designer's perspective on the built world. The future now seems inscrutable, provoking us to think of the possibilities for change in human behaviors and our environment. Looking away from the conventional means of solving problems, the works in this exhibition seek to reevaluate our personal relationships to our domestic landscape.
Installation image of Evan Fay's Lawless Series. Photo by Clare Gatto, courtesy of the artist.
"Softhouse," Li Chen and Hayden Allison Richer
Emphasizing daily relationships to material, Softhouse exhibition aims to facilitate the rethinking of objects. Rather than strictly polished, finished and rigid structures, the focus is placed on items that are humble at glance but develop personalities that mature with time and interaction. Here, the storyline is favored over the end result, and the users' interaction with the works involve as much observing as using.
Donut Shop Design. Image Courtesy of Softhouse.
Detroit Month of Design Banner Graphic
Image Courtesy of Design Core Detroit
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Image Courtesy of Design Core Detroit
Detroit Month of Design Graphic
Image Courtesy of Design Core Detroit
"Building Materials," Lindsay Splichal
Building Materials is a site-specific exhibition by Lindsay Splichal that explores printmaking, sculpture, and installation as reflections of the location's unique architecture as well as her family's construction heritage, by creating space-responsive print monotypes alongside scalable, low-cost, high-labor take-aways.
Image Courtesy of Lindsay Splichal
"Did You Try Unplugging it and Plugging it Back In Again?," Brenna Lane and Lisa Waud’s
This outdoor, open-air installation uses the leftover remnants from the production of thousands of hospital gowns that were made by local cut-and-sew manufacturers around Michigan as a response to the Coronavirus pandemic. As the anxiety of Coronavirus was compounded by a global movement toward racial equity, Lisa and Brenna were inspired to create a space that would support and sustain the hard work ahead.
After observing neighborhood children enthusiastically playing on piles of wood chips, Lisa was inspired to explore elements of elevation for an installation. Sharing her interest with Brenna, the two realized their common fascination with mound structures as land art and placemaking tools and wanted to bring the experience to Detroit. Built on lots purchased from the Detroit Land Bank, the space of calm reflection will open to the public for programming and individuals on Saturday, September 5th, and remain a public park permanently.
Photo by Emma Berger.
Gucci Changemakers Impact Fund
Image by Satchel Lee
Courtesy of Gucci and Design Core Detroit
Design Guide: Real Estate Development
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