The Detroit River Story Lab: Community narratives and ecosystems in Great Lakes research |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. 102 Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;2. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA;1. Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 701 North Point Drive, Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096, USA;2. Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, 673 Auditorium Rd., Rm 122, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;1. Michigan State University, Department of Community Sustainability, 480 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48823, United States;2. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, Office of the Great Lakes, 525 West Allegan Street, PO Box 30473, Lansing, MI 48909, United States |
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| Abstract: | The Detroit River ecosystem has been the focus of extensive and sustained environmental restoration efforts over the past fifty years. These efforts are rightly understood to play an important role in the revitalization of river-adjacent communities. The positive ecological and community impacts of such efforts can potentially be amplified by attending to the narrative infrastructure that inevitably shapes and conditions local residents' responses to them. The Detroit River Story Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Michigan, partners with local organizations to strengthen narrative infrastructure through place-based education, nonprofit journalism, and public heritage projects that seek to reconnect residents with the river and thereby increase support for and participation in environmental restoration activities. |
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| Keywords: | Detroit River Narrative infrastructure Community engagement Public humanities Place-based learning Experiential education |
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