A guide to Detroit’s living design culture—where industrial legacy, creative community, and everyday innovation collide block by block.

A snapshot of Detroit Month of Design at ten years in—where UNESCO recognition, sustainability goals, and nearly 100 events show how design shapes civic life, culture, and the city’s future.

A look at Detroit’s wave of adaptive reuse, where historic churches, factories, and skyscrapers are reimagined as cultural, residential, and creative spaces in a city navigating renewal and change.

Exhibition detail from “Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the U.S.” at Cranbrook Art Museum. Photo by PD Rearick.

Detroit celebrates a decade as the U.S.’s only UNESCO City of Design, revealing how the city’s design-forward thinking extends far beyond the festival calendar.

An exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum reframes midcentury modernism through Detroit’s lens, spotlighting overlooked designers and showing how the movement’s ideas continue to shape modern living.