As the transportation industry drives further toward autonomous and electrification, educational curriculums must advance to properly train those that will be designing, building, and servicing the future of mobility.
Residents see new Brilliant Detroit neighborhood hub as an opportunity to spark change in the community and the potential to help local youth.
Damian Porcari, director of the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional United States Patent and Trademark Office in Detroit, talks about the patent’s role in U.S. history, about women inventors, and, of course, about patents for mobility innovations. Listen and learn about "The real McCoy."
This year’s small business competition will see the grand prize double from $50,000 to $100,000, due to increased investment from Hatch Detroit sponsor Comerica Bank.
Model D caught up with Margo Dalal during the ComCap conference to find out more about her work and what she learned from the experience.
ComCap, annual conference on using community capital to promote shared prosperity, runs from June 11-13 at the College for Creative Studies' A. Alfred Taubman Center. The conference will feature more than 50 speakers, including Detroiters Devita Davison, Kwaku Osei, and Malik Yakini.
The fire-ravaged and neglected buildings encountered by Detroit firefighter Gary Ringer have become an unlikely source of inspiration.
The shift in the way we get around will also require some major shifts in the way car interiors are designed. Here's how one Southfield company is already responding to those challenges.
Poet jessica Care moore's choreopoem runs from June 13-16 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Mobility innovators Ford GoRide and SPLT are connecting people with healthcare providers in urban and rural areas. With design at the center of their offerings, they’re doing so much more than moving people around — they’re addressing overall wellbeing, too.
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