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As the city gears up for the Detroit Design Festival, eight days of events aimed at celebrating and attracting entrepreneurial creatives, WDET’s Nichole Christian talks with Chandra Moore-Banks, a California-born young architect who sees creating innovative community driven designs as a weapon to combat youth despair in urban cities. Detroit, she says, is the ultimate proving ground for her vision.
Business Leaders for Michigan, the College for Creative Studies and the Detroit Creative Corridor Center unveiled its collaborative workspace as part of the Creative Ventures in Residence Program at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education.
The Detroit Creative Corridor Center, with the help of several initiatives, created the Creative Ventures Acceleration Program in which 17 businesses took part to help boost Detroit’s success in the creative sector.
You’re going to hear the words asset and opportunity a lot in this story. And frankly, that’s a pretty welcome surprise. It’s not often you hear those words associated with Detroit these days. But don’t tell that to Charles Cross, Chandra Moore, and Virginia Stanard. They all work at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center.
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