It Takes a Village: Arts-Led Neighborhood Redevelopment

CM credit hours for mobile workshops are awarded based on the planned dedicated instructional time. Adjustments to CM hours will not be made after the live event.

Visit the Old Redford neighborhood in northwest Detroit and hear from the Artist Village, Detroit Blight Busters, Sidewalk Detroit, Other-work, and the City of Detroit. Walking tour highlights include the Artist Village, Orchard Village Apartments, Arts Alley, Lasher Streetscape, Old Redford Link and Arts District, and Façade Improvement grants.

Old Redford's grassroots work laid the foundation for the neighborhood's inclusion in Detroit's Strategic Neighborhood Fund Framework Planning, and established a working method with resident and neighborhood stakeholders to tackle disinvestment challenges, which is expandable through public-private partnership and leveraged to drive additional neighborhood investment.

Explore the physical spaces where neighborhood development conversations happen and how centering those conversations in arts and culture leads to meaningful neighborhood development projects with embedded local leadership. Hear from community leaders, architects, developers, and planners and learn about Old Redford's arts-led approach, fulfilled by a variety of mission-driven organizations, that established a neighborhood planning model grounded in partnership and artistic expression.

Community planning equity depends on place-based work and partnership. Explore how the arts connect residents, businesses, advocates, developers and see how city processes can break down traditional barriers and open people-centered planning conversations.