In 2015, I was thinking introspectively about the spaces that I inhabited in Detroit especially as it related to race. As a young, white man I had lived in a handful of “islands of privilege” in the city – and this map was my exploration of those islands and their disconnect to the larger city.
In 2022, the Detroit Research journal’s founder asked me to tackle the task of writing the Drawing Detroit segment and highlight some of the “hand mapping” I had done with some 500 Detroiters across the city over the last decade.
Date
2015 & 2022
Client
Detroit Research Journal / MOCAD
Publications
2022 Detroit Research, Volume 3
2015 Detroit Research, Volume 2
Alex B. Hill 