Teaching and Designing in Detroit

Stephen Vogel is Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. He is past president of the Detroit and Michigan Chapters of the American Institute of Architects and has received the AIA Detroit and Michigan Gold Medals. Vogel was inducted into the College of Fellows of the AIA in 1994, and is a national AIA Richard Upjohn Fellow and Louise Blanchard Bethune Fellow.Libby Balter Blume is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy. She has a Ph.D. in Human Development, M.A. in Creative Arts Education, and B.A. in Studio Art. Blume is a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations and received the University’s Faculty Excellence Award in 2015 and the Women and Gender Studies Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

• List of FiguresForewordLeslie Kanes WeismanIntroduction. Ten Women Designers in DetroitStephen Vogel and Libby Balter BlumeChapter 1. The Search for a New Hybrid Landscape Stephen VogelChapter 2. Feminist Theory in the Practice and Pedagogy of Architecture and DesignLibby Balter BlumePART 1: CREATING: INTERSECTIONAL PRACTICESChapter 3. Making and Detroit: Finding a Way to ActRonit EisenbachChapter 4. What Can We Co-Create That We Can’t Create On Our Own?Christina BechsteinChapter 5. When Life Gives You LemonsKaren SwansonPART 2: TEACHING: PERFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIESChapter 6. Re-Centering: From Student to Person and From Self-Centered Learning to Civic EngagementClaudia BernasconiChapter 7. Experimental Pedagogy: The Connection between Teaching and Social ImpactAmy Green DeinesChapter 8. Save-As Detroit: Design Process, Storytelling, and Engagement with PlaceAllegra PiteraChapter 9. Detroit, My TeacherJanine DebannéPART 3: REFRAMING: TRANSDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIESChapter 10. Shifting to an Equitable Development FrameworkChristina HeximerChapter 11. Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Detroit’s Shifting ParadigmVirginia StanardChapter 12. Reclaiming and Revealing Detroit: A City DisruptedJulie Ju-Youn KimConclusionJulie Ju-Youn Kim and Stephen VogelAfterwordSharon Egretta SuttonContributorsAbstracts

"In this provocative collection of essays by influential women architects and educators, the post-industrial challenges of Detroit, and innovative programs at the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy to engage them, are compellingly told. Throughout, critiques of, and much-needed changes to, the academy and profession, are illustrated, and a more hopeful, diverse, and inclusive future envisioned." - Thomas Barrie AIA, DPACSA, Professor of Architecture, NC State University