• Center For New Work: Metro-Detroit

The Detroit Center for New Work will synthesize three integrated components to form the foundation of a comprehensive, sustainable urban village that will serve as a catalyst for innovation-based entrepreneurialism, community-providing base economy, and an attractive cultural life. Organized around a community center, advanced technologies are utilized to create a platform for new businesses, knowledge and resources for economic independence through community self-reliance, and awakening of what individuals authentically want to pursue to develop and express serious desires, interests, and talents. The Center for New Work offers pathways for economic, community, and individual development by employing advanced technologies in a community organization that self-provides the lion’s share of life’s needs while creating entrepreneurial businesses for economic growth and offering opportunities to develop individual talents, interests, and desires for self-affirmation and cultural enhancement.

Urban Agriculture Workshop

Saturday, March 13

Detroit Public Library Main

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Presented by The Greening of Detroit

http://www.greeningofdetroit.com/

"Yoking the Local Food Movement to Small Scale Meat Producers: Challenges in Translating Urban-Rural Identities"

The Year of the Environment lecture series featuring Scout Calvert (Library and Information Science)

Friday, March 12, 12:30pm in Room 2339, Faculty/Adminstration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit. 

Flyer attached here

The History of New Work
Dr. Frithjof Bergmann successfully began the first New Work program in the late 1980’s in Flint, MI, responding to a crisis caused by an economic downturn and General Motors downsizing its plants in Flint. New Work essentially developed small-scale, local work that created jobs by providing the community with necessary goods and services that had been supplied by businesses outside the community – and which took hard-to-come-by monies out of the area. Business practices were taught, as well as personal development training, and then entrepreneurial training that allowed New Work to widen the variety of products and services offered, and broaden its scope to address needs in other communities.

Kronk Village 

This project in Detroit, MI includes the historic rehabilitation and “green” adaptive reuse renovation of the existing Kronk Community Building (including the Kronk Boxing Gym founded by Emanuel Steward) and adjoining sites (Atkinson Playground) as a multi-use center and the redevelopment of existing vacant public blocks as a sustainable residential neighborhood consisting of various forms of affordable housing in the area bounded by I-94 on the south, McGraw and Warren Avenues on the north, 28^th Street on the east, and 35^th Street and the ThyssenKrupp facility on the west.

Center for New Work: Detroit Executive Summary