Detroit Vacant Land CDC

11/19/2025

11/15/2025

As an existing land conservation organization in Detroit we are looking forward to learn more about equitable land ownership opportunities for all Detroiters.

What’s the future of Detroit’s vacant land?

Detroit Future City released Saving for the Future: Land Conservation in Detroit, a new report exploring how transforming vacant lots into open space can improve community health, strengthen neighborhoods, and build environmental resilience.

The report outlines DFC’s plan for the Detroit GreenSpace Conservancy—an effort to protect and manage natural areas across the city for the long term. By investing in green space today, Detroit can turn vacant land into lasting community assets and ensure a more sustainable, equitable future.
Learn more in Saving for the Future: Land Conservation in Detroit: https://detroitfuturecity.com/data_reports/saving-for-the-future-land-conservation-in-detroit/

10/21/2025

05/21/2025

🌿✨ Join Us This Sunday for an Exclusively Curated Experience in Detroit.

Fugitive Landscapes: Land as a Future Archive of Resilience, Memory, and Renewal
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An Immersive Movement Weekend Experience of Art, Ecology & Techno

🗓 Sunday, May 25, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM – 3:33 PM
📍 C.A.N. Art Handworks Campus — 2264 Wilkins St, Detroit, MI 48207

Presented by Haus of Imagination and Detroit Vacant Land CDC

In collaboration with Detroit Windmill Sculpture & Innovation Park & C.A.N. Art Handworks

Featured Programmatic Partner of upcoming exhibition:
The Sea and the Sky, and You and I – Opening May 17th, 2025.

Fugitive Landscapes is a site-specific, immersive experience held during Movement weekend, reimagining Detroit’s post-residential, semi-wild landscapes through the lens of beauty, resilience, and radical renewal.

Set in the Detroit Windmill Sculpture & Innovation Park, this living installation fuses techno, dance, sound, sculpture, and ecology—a sensory journey through transformation and memory in Detroit’s emergent terrains.

🌱 Sculptural interventions
🔊 Sonic explorations
🌀 Themes of impermanence, migration, sustainability & regeneration
🪩 Celebration of Detroit’s land as archive, collaborator, and catalyst for a sustainable future.

About the Hosts:of.imagination — a conceptual studio and cultural design lab rooted in imagination, creativity, and sustainability

— a nonprofit reclaiming and transforming vacant land into assets and promoting land stewardship

— innovative wind turbine and kinetic sculpure park inspiring the future of upcycling and sustainability in Detroit, invented by inventor & sculptor Carlos Nielbock.

Fugitive Landscapes activates urban terrain as a visionary platform for design, movement, healing, and innovation—where nature and culture meet on sacred Detroit ground.

Come move with the land.
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RSVP Link in Bio.

03/25/2025

Join Us Movement Weekend For:

Fugitive Landscapes: Land as a Future Archive of Resistance, Renewal, and Regeneration

Location: Haus of Imagination & Gardens
3333 Heidelberg Street, Detroit, Michigan 48207

Date/Time: Sunday, May 25, 2025
11 am-3:33pm

Fugitive Landscapes is an immersive, site-specific experience exploring the aesthetics, brilliance, and resilience of Detroit’s shifting terrain—emergent ecological spaces, community, and evolving environment narratives. Through music, movement, art, sound and culture, this event reclaims and reimagines a post-residential, semi-wild site where human and natural forces co-create a new reality. It is a celebration of adaptation, honoring the land’s endurance and resistance, and the creative possibilities that emerge from deeply rooted systems, organic, and synthetic intelligence. Featuring Special Guest DJ and Featured Land Artists. (to be announced)

Curated By: Tanya J. Stephens / .of.imagination
Hosted in Partnership:
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🎟️:RSVP Link in Bio.

03/25/2025

Repost: and are pleased to present 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰, a group exhibition curated by , opening on Saturday, May 17th, 2025. In this moment of intense climate change and ever shifting policy, what does it mean to care for, tend to, and remember a landscape?⁠
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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 will presents artists and cultural organizers who consider the enduring relationships between humans and subterranean, terrestrial, and imaginary landscapes in Detroit and beyond.⁠
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Featured artists include: Halima Afi Cassells, Wesaam Al-Badry, Candida Alvarez, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Dawoud Bey, LaKela Brown, Ashanti Chaplin, David Antonio Cruz, Olayami Dabls, Bryce Detroit, Chantell Donwell, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Olivia Guterson, L. Kasimu Harris, Scott Hocking, Doug Jones, Louise Jones, Joanna Keane Lopez, Paul Kremer, Le’Andra LeSeur, Dameon Miller, Keisha Miller, Mario Moore, Ebony G. Patterson, Benjy Russell, Neha Vedpathak, Jordan Weber, Rosha Yaghmai⁠
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In conjunction with the exhibition, programmatic partnerships with community-based and artist-led organizations in Detroit will result in a kaleidoscope of events occurring in tandem with the show. Programmatic partners include the Dabls , and The Garage, Kim and Rhonda Theus with , and Tanya Stephens () and Haus of Imagination & Gardens, and Tyree Guyton’s The Heidelberg Project ().⁠
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12/04/2024

Please support our mission to preserve Detroit’s vacant land and empower Detroit land stewards this

06/21/2024

Think About the Future With Imaginative, Community-Based Groups

06/21/2024

City officials say the land review policy helps improve neighborhoods and reserve sites for affordable housing, but some City Council members and residents say it gives preference to developers.

06/16/2024

Celebrating another amazing Juneteenth event with at . We are honored to be recipients of funding support from this incredible organization. Stay tuned for the 2024 launch of the next round of grant funding. ❤️🖤💚

06/16/2024

Shout out to everyone that came out and supported our first Plant & Sip event. We look forward to seeing everyone at our next planting event. 🌸🪴🌻