UT 360 Service Design and Urban Needs 3

Worldwide MI

Ting Fong Chen, Enzo Mignano, Theo Berry, Audrey Tang and Devin Vowels
In this Urban Technology studio (UT 360), juniors engaged in an innovative collaboration with Let’s Grow Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to unveil projects that featured service concepts to ease and enhance the “onboarding experience” of new Michiganders. The outputs of the course were three design concepts that proposed new ways in which Michigan might tout cultural heritage diversity, better use disused spaces in towns and cities and celebrate the unique qualities of its midsized cities. WorldWide MI is a culturally curated service for discovering and connecting communities in Michigan. Through research, the students found there is an…