Detroit River Story Lab

The University of Michigan’s Detroit River Story Lab is an interdisciplinary, grant-funded initiative that partners with regional organizations to reconnect communities with the river and its stories.

Through collaborative research, educational programs, and engagement projects, our partnerships amplify marginalized voices and foreground the role of the river and its shores as sites of connection, stewardship, and healing.

Project Areas

The Story Lab focuses on three overlapping components of narrative infrastructure along the Detroit River corridor. In each of these project areas, we work alongside partner organizations to help gather, contextualize, and share out river-related stories in ways that align with community priorities and activate riverside locations.

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