Avis + Elsmere: A Collaborative Community Design Precedent

Vibrant neighborhood spaces pave the way for more resilient and inclusive communities. This paper showcases a neighborhood space resulting from a collaborative, community-led design process that honors local knowledge and responds to contextual challenges. Avis + Elsmere, a project in Detroit, offers a model for collaborative practice as the product of a robust relationship between the client-collaborator – grassroots organization Inside Southwest Detroit – a diverse stakeholder group of neighbors and artists, the DetroitCollaborative Design Center (DCDC) at the University of DetroitMercy (UDM), and the architecture office Et al. Collaborative.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.19.4

Volume Editors
Elizabeth Golden & Joshua Vermillion

ISBN
978-1-944214-27-2