Team Members
Salam Rida, Olivia Howard, Ryan Goold, Naheim Rida, Michael Medina, Josefina Banales
Community Collaborator: Grace Lee Boggs School
Advisor
Mick Kennedy
Project Summary
The Dreamscape Project is a collaborative initiative between the James and Grace Lee Boggs School, its neighborhood, and students from the University of Michigan. These students work with the Boggs School and its community to foster engagement in the built environment for elementary students in Detroit through design and fabrication.
Through the Dow Distinguished seed grant, the team held a competition to have U-M students design a fence, traditional a community divider, into an interactive, community engagement and education piece. Winning designs included a “pixel board” as a colorful visual community communication piece, a “xylo fence” musical engagement piece, “hide and seek” pop-up shelter, and a “lenticular mural”. The winning U-M designers will work with the Boggs School students and implementation teams to install in fall 2016.