{"id":12683,"date":"2026-02-09T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12683"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:14:40","slug":"future-friday-detroit","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/event\/future-friday-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Friday: Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit is\u00a0frequently\u00a0framed through\u00a0stories of\u00a0decline,\u00a0but it\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0powerful site of\u00a0experimentation,\u00a0creativity, and\u00a0community-led\u00a0reinvention.\u00a0As\u00a0land use, culture, and local\u00a0economies are\u00a0reimagined,\u00a0the city offers\u00a0important\u00a0lessons\u00a0about\u00a0shaping\u00a0people-first\u00a0urban futures.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Future\u00a0Fridays\u00a0session\u00a0brings together\u00a0residents, designers, and civic leaders\u00a0who are actively\u00a0shaping Detroit\u2019s\u00a0evolution.\u00a0Through personal narratives and conversation, participants will explore how memory,\u00a0belonging, and\u00a0identity\u00a0shape Detroit\u2019s transformation in ways that\u00a0preserve culture while\u00a0embracing change.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About Future Fridays<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Future Fridays is the National Building Museum\u2019s signature online series as part of the Future Cities initiative, hosted by James Darius Ball, director of Future Cities. Each one-hour session highlights the people, stories, and decisions that shape cities and everyday life in communities across the country.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In its second year, the series emphasizes personal narratives and community perspectives, showing how residents, planners, designers, and civic leaders influence neighborhoods, public spaces, and city life. Participants can\u00a0share their own perspectives, ask questions, and gain insight into how local choices reflect broader trends shaping American cities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Future Cities programming\u00a0extends beyond Future Fridays, with a four-year slate of exhibitions, events, lectures, publications, digital activations, and community-based engagements designed to reach audiences from all\u00a0walks of life\u00a0and encourage participation in shaping the places where they live, work, and play.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This program is part of the National Building Museum\u2019s<\/span><\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/span>Future Cities<\/span><\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/span>Initiative. A special thank you to our sponsors AARP, Enterprise<\/span>\u00a0+ Wells Fargo<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Whayne and Ursula Quin,\u00a0<\/span>Rooted Communities, National League of Cities, CBRE,<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Kohn Pederson Fox Associates PC<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us on Future Fridays to engage with personal stories from those shaping Detroit\u2019s transformation, and to reflect on how identity, memory, and belonging inform what it means\u00a0for a city to evolve.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":12751,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[269,812],"class_list":["post-12683","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-adult-programs","tribe_events_cat-future-friday","cat_adult-programs","cat_future-friday"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12683\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbm.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}