Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Introduction. Ten Women Designers in Detroit

Stephen Vogel and Libby Balter Blume

Chapter 1. The Search for a New Hybrid Landscape

Stephen Vogel

Chapter 2. Feminist Theory in the Practice and Pedagogy of Architecture and Design

Libby Balter Blume

PART 1: CREATING: INTERSECTIONAL PRACTICES

Chapter 3. Making and Detroit: Finding a Way to Act

Ronit Eisenbach

Chapter 4. What Can We Co-Create That We Can’t Create On Our Own?

Christina Bechstein

Chapter 5. When Life Gives You Lemons

Karen Swanson

PART 2: TEACHING: PERFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIES

Chapter 6. Re-Centering: From Student to Person and From Self-Centered Learning to Civic Engagement

Claudia Bernasconi

Chapter 7. Experimental Pedagogy: The Connection between Teaching and Social Impact

Amy Green Deines

Chapter 8. Save-As Detroit: Design Process, Storytelling, and Engagement with Place

Allegra Pitera

Chapter 9. Detroit, My Teacher

Janine Debanné

PART 3: REFRAMING: TRANSDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITIES

Chapter 10. Shifting to an Equitable Development Framework

Christina Heximer

Chapter 11. Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Detroit’s Shifting Paradigm

Virginia Stanard

Chapter 12. Reclaiming and Revealing Detroit: A City Disrupted

Julie Ju-Youn Kim

Conclusion

Julie Ju-Youn Kim and Stephen Vogel

Afterword

Sharon Egretta Sutton

Contributors

Abstracts

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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