Upon the completion of the 2023 symposium, Egalitarian Metropolis Exhibition: Towards an Inclusive Recovery for Detroit, representatives from the University of Michigan College of Literature Science & the Arts commissioned Perspective 3D to create The Egalitarian Metropolis 3D Virtual Gallery Exhibition. The Egalitarian Metropolis Exhibition highlights key Michigan-Mellon Project initiatives that are focused on the city of Detroit and featured in the Egalitarian Metropolis Symposium.
What is the Michigan Mellon Project on egalitarianism and the metropolis?
The Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis is an Urban Humanities Initiative organized around a partnership of humanists, architects/urban designers/planners, and community leaders. A collaboration between the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the Project’s commitment to research and teaching aims to not only model a future for these disciplines, but to also demonstrate how the urban humanities can be effective partners and collaborators in the movement for more inclusive cities.
The project explored these contemporary urban issues through the lenses of urban/architectural design and the humanities, resulting in a series of symposia, colloquia, lecture and seminar courses, post-graduate fellowships, and public exhibitions.
The Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis is a two-part program awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The first project grant ($1.3 million) was awarded in 2013, and the second renewal grant ($1 million) was awarded in 2019. The Program explores contemporary issues on urbanism and egalitarianism, and is an interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty and students at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
View Halal Metropolis, a virtual gallery documenting the symposium series examining Muslim visibility in southeast Michigan.