Process

This project was based on researching and exploring chance methodologies and applying them to a piece of design activism using research collected in locations around Detroit determined by chance.

In order to explore chance methodologies each team developed a list of everyday locations in Detroit that had some type of cultural relevance and could, in some way, represent a social issue or a space in which our message could occur. We decided to make a list of 12 parks in Detroit. As a team we chose parks because we both love the outdoors, and parks provide a nostalgia to our childhoods. We then narrowed our list down to 4 locations using chance. We placed the name of each park on a piece of paper, crumpled it up, and let them all roll down a slide at Peck Park. The 4 that made it the furthest were our 4 locations we would research. The results were William G Milliken State Park and Harbor, The Dequindre Cut, Balduck Park, and Dorias Park.