The ambition of the HKS Design Fellowship Detroit is to bring designers together and challenge the community we live in through observation, imagination and conversation. The Fellowship strives to bring our talents to bear on conditions that can benefit from an intense and open visual and conceptual exploration. By looking closer at our own community we deepen our relationship with it, forge new partnerships, and better understand the world we live in. The process will encourage questions relative to sustainability, constructability, representation, economics, and anything pertinent and representative of the current discourse regarding the built environment. The object is to bring students and emerging professionals together to create an atmosphere of exploration and learning where all involved are challenged and grow.
2013 HKS Detroit Design Fellows, In preparation for the design Charrette we will be having February 28th through March 2nd, we have prepared this packet of information for you. Enclosed you will find an explanation of the Fellowship Program and its structure. You are expected to research relevant facts pertaining to the site including its history, socio-political context, and surrounding neighborhood. The Challenge explains the design problem we will be tackling in our three day Charrette. Our Site Visit is at 9am on Saturday February 23rd. We will meet at the HKS office in Northville. (map is attached) Also included is a list of the Fellows and their profiles so you can become familiar with your fellow participants. And finally, we have included a schedule for the Charrette and things to bring. We look forward to seeing you soon! Thank you, The Fellowship Team and Facilitators