Wahnabezee’s future [hi]stories is a design initiative aimed to activate places and collectives through the sharing and telling of situated stories. Through a combination of public scholarship, design experimentation, and small, site-specific interventions, our work promotes sustainable cultural, socio-environmental, and political values. Our projects are only possible thanks to the integration of knowledge and expertise of residents, local partners, and collaborators, and the academic sponsorship.

The project is part of the Detroit River Story Lab, an academic initiative based at the University of Michigan that partners with regional organizations to reconnect communities with the river and its stories as sites of belonging, stewardship, and healing. Working from the premise that the narrative infrastructure of regional communities is critical to sustaining social justice efforts, the Lab builds on local partnerships to research, co-produce and disseminate historically nuanced, contextually aware, and culturally rooted stories harnessing the symbolic power of the Detroit River in drawing out the lives and struggles of its adjacent communities.

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