Fri, Sep 19
|Michigan Central Station
Futures in Formation: Designing the Imaginative City
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2025, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Michigan Central Station, 2001 15th St, Detroit, MI 48216, USA
About the event
Futures in Formation: Designing the Imaginative City
Friday, September 19, 2025 — The Station, South Concourse12-5PM
Hosted by Michigan Central Art in collaboration with Design Core Detroit, Futures in Formation: Designing the Imaginative City is a daylong forum exploring how design, shaped by migration and cultural exchange, reimagines civic engagement. Throughout the day, the forum aims to translate these expansive ideas into implementable and tangible opportunities to directly benefit Detroit’s communities and future developments.
Detroit stands as a connector, a global city shaped by movement and migration where generations of visionaries have transformed civic life. Its layered past reveals how cultural memory can reimagine public systems and inspire new ways of living, offering a powerful framework for addressing contemporary challenges and building a more equitable future in Detroit. From Black utopian movements in Detroit to maker collectives in Accra, Futures in Formation explores how design becomes an act of world-building with a…