EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 28, 2016

PLACE: Monts Hall Gallery and Ann Arbor Room, University of Michigan Detroit Center, 3663 Woodward Ave., Suite 150, Detroit

EVENT: Billed as an evening of co-learning, U-M students from the Detroit City Study will join Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press in a discussion of making, unmaking and remaking place in Detroit, through excerpts from the work of local Detroit writers.

The community is invited to take part in the guided discussion, which will be facilitated by the City Study Stewards, a group of U-M doctorate students.

Henderson, editorial page editor and columnist at the Detroit Free Press, will share reflective remarks on his own experience with place-making in Detroit through his Tuxedo Project, and as a journalist for the Free Press.

In 2012, he returned to his recently abandoned childhood home at 7124 Tuxedo St. in Detroit. This led to the creation of the Tuxedo Project, a partnership with Marygrove College and the Knight Foundation, to restore his home and to turn it into a writer’s residency to benefit the students of Marygrove and the surrounding community.

Henderson will share his own reflections on making, unmaking and remaking place in post-bankruptcy Detroit, as well as the unique features of and vision for transforming a home into a place of learning.

The Place-Making Research Cluster at the Detroit City Study explores the diverse elements that make, unmake and remake place. Students take up this question through a variety of disciplines and entry points, including social space, material space, visual space and mental space, as well as the role of art, community, the built environment, deconstruction, affect and power, and how they intersect within place.

More information:

• Co-learning project in Detroit launches campus of the future focus
• Detroit City Study
• City Study Stewards
• Tuxedo Project
• Place-Making Research Cluster