Happy Park(ing) Day! SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL!

See you at Metropolis Cycles on Michigan Avenue in the Michigan Central Innovation District from 12-4pm and on Zoom from 1-3pm tomorrow for our Placemaking US Design Strategy & Training conversational Digital Design Charrette.

Our core participants featured below will be grounding our open and immersive conversation: Madeleine Spencer with Placemaking US, Jesse Bruner from Strong Towns Detroit, Robert Bass, President of Pontiac Citizen District Council, Creative Power Systems Inc., Ryan Mekenian, Director of “Freak Bikes” (a feature film screening @ this year’s Better Cities Film Festival), Pat Wiley, Inform Yourself (“Out of School” programming) & Paula Acero from Parking Reform Network.

(Also happening simultaneously…John Bela, Bela Urbanism @ the Parklet Symposium in Bologna co-creating a Parklet Manifesto for the UN, also featured at last year’s 7th Annual Park(ing) Day “Detroit to Pontiac” )

Overview of Cavnue & MDOT’s Michigan Avenue Corktown Improvement Project with Jesse Bruner, Strong Towns Detroit

HOW to “Bring IT Into Being,” Placemaking Design Strategy & Trainings with Madeleine Spencer, Co-Director of Placemaking US:

Overview of development situation in Pontiac, MI with Robert Bass, President of District 1, Citizen District Council

On Biking Culture & Social Infrastructure with Ryan Mekenian, Director of Freak Bike (feature film @8pm Campus Martius with Better Cities Film Festival)

On tying it all together for “Growing Michigan Together Council Report” possibilities-thinking and Afterschool “Out of School” solutionaries, with Pat Wiley, Executive Director of Inform Yourself

And on the origin story of Microgrids with Creative Power Systems Inc.

Some “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL” inspiration, also on our public design board - add a sticky note!