Hey, The big show has closed its curtains. The experience was riveting. I’ve got to say, while reading my first blog-post I could practically see the words jumping out of the screen with excitement – rightfully so. I think I came in DCERP with a lot of good ideas about what a community is. For …
My project involves a lot of interviews. I’m interviewing past students out of the organization’s program, as well as past (or continuing) community partners with DFA. I learned through this process that conducting interviews with people can be very difficult – the barrier of getting people to reconnect is tough. The interviewing process also challenged …
I’m starting this lil’ talk about How to Kill a City. Now, from the jump, the author stated, “…poorer cities such as […] Detroit, where gentrification and tourism are some of the only economic engines keeping the cities from bankruptcy. Our cities’ economies are sick”. And it was a hard pill to swallow: the city …
Hey y’all, I’m getting kind of amped up about the Showcase in a few weeks, and generally about the progression of summer. It’s definitely a time for celebration, and summertime in Detroit is sweeter than Bea’s lemonade. Family barbecues, birthday parties, block parties. Oh, and I can’t forget the Eastern Market Frenzy! My program supervisors, …
Something big is coming to Detroit this summer – Van Gogh. He’s the first artist I remember learning about in middle school. Now, so many years later his image is back in my life, and every other kid from the Detroit area. To celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the Detroit Institute of Art’s official …
Hello folks, I want to share what my site (Detroit Food Academy) supervisor (Julie Wainwright) asked me, “How is this research giving back to the community it’s taking from?” Now, in context, they were asking to make sure that we can do something about the socioemotional data we collect, and not just “have it”. But, …
Something that stood out to me in How to Kill a City is that it’s essentially manslaughter, in a few cases. Moskowitz spoke briefly about how Europeans from the queer community tend to flee their residing cities for a place that’s more likely accepting of things considered taboo, moderately safe to inhabit, and not very …
Hey, it’s Myla. I’m working with Detroit Food Academy this summer (geographically closest to 826michigan, CDAD and SW Detroit). Detroit Food Academy (DFA) is a nonprofit organization that provides summer and school-year programs to middle and high school students interested in any part of food. DFA’s program is educational and covers many things: food injustice, …
Hi everyone, I’m Myla Lyons. I am from Southfield, Michigan, and am attending U of M as a junior in the fall. I intend to major in biopsychology, cognition, and neuroscience, acquire a(n accelerated) Master’s in Psychology, get a minor in entrepreneurship, dance, and maybe figure out where to fit statistics and or sociology in …
