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TCAUP Community Design Center
Within the UM Detroit Center, which TCAUP helped
spearhead, we are opening a community design
center. At the northern end of the facility,
the college will occupy 1,000 square feet of
high bay studio space. It is equipped with
desks/workstations and a faculty office. Craig
Wilkins, the 2004 Sojourner Truth Professor
of Urban Planning, will be director of the
community workshop, which will offer low and
no-cost planning and design services to community
and neighborhood groups and organizations.
Eric Dueweke, the Urban + Regional Planning
Program's outreach coordinator, will also have
a desk there and expects to spend several days
per week at the Center.
The ultimate range and type of community service, teaching, and research that will happen in or be supported by the center are still in gestation and will evolve over the next several years. Architecture, urban design, and urban planning studios will use the facility. Local high school students may be offered design classes. Community workshops and meetings will be held there, as will symposia and seminars. Researchers can use it as a home and students can use it as a base for their collective and individual needs. It is also hoped and envisioned that interdisciplinary work and activity will naturally emerge with the other UM
schools, colleges, and programs located at the center. All in all, we hope it will become a useful and vibrant hub of education, collaboration, and service in Detroit.
Please feel free to stop by and visit both the UM Detroit Center and the college's Community Design Center. The address is 3663 Woodward Avenue, halfway between downtown and New Center. There will be a website to visit as well or contact Craig Wilkins at clwilks@umich.edu. Stay tuned and watch this initiative germinate into numerous projects and programs.
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