"ReMake Detroit" by Dark Rye
If you're not from Michigan, you may not have noticed that recently Detroit has been circling the drain in a dramatically post-apocalyptic manner. As bad as things are, though, there are still people fighting for a comeback. This brief video documents one effort to re-unite the community with the launch of a new hackerspace called i3 Detroit.
"Before the assembly line, before Detroit’s imagination took a backseat to its specialized emphasis on cars, cars and a few more cars, we mustn’t forget that it was imagination itself that turned the key in that original ignition. Indeed. What was Henry Ford doing in that shed behind his house? He was tinkering and dreaming and goofing around. It’s the conviction that making and building exist as desires in the very structure of our DNA that inspired Nick Britsky to dream up and create i3 Detroit, “a collaborative environment for people to explore the balance between technology, art and culture.”"
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