Detroit Future Media (DFM) is an incubator of media-based community organizing practices in Detroit. DFM is a project based 20-week training program through which students build skills and relationships that prepare them to use media and technology for community-transformation.
In the program, participants learn digital media skills in video, audio, graphic design, web design, and IT networking, and then learn how to apply these skills in one of four concentrations: Education, Entrepreneurship, or Digital Stewards and Transformative Art Practices.
Mission: Detroit Future Media (DFM) sees grassroots media creation and community cultural production as central to the process of building vibrant movements for social change and self-determination. We believe that media education and collaborative entrepreneurial work are a key way to improve economic conditions in Detroit. The collaborative practice experienced in Detroit Future Media is designed to inspire and support creative participatory decision-making and problem solving in Detroit. Detroit Future Media’s network of artists, activists, technologists, and small businesses are developing infrastructure and tools to construct just and creative forms of education, community, and economic development in Detroit.
Operating as usual
DFM is continuing on as Co.Open. Please follow us at our new FB page to hear about future meet-ups, workshops and apprenticeships.
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Co.Open looks to create a sustainable model of community led education, by providing support in curriculum design, marketing, technology and space for workshops.
Check out our latest apprenticeship project with http://www.yogabydesignfoundation.org/ created by DFM alumni Terry Stanfield.
The Yoga by Design Foundation funds programs for under-served populations. Created in 2011, the first of its kind in the nation, to raise money for the purpose of providing yoga to a variety of recipients – including, but not limited to persons with Alzheimer’s, Autism, Multiple Sclerosis, cancer, p...
For the 15th annual Allied Media Conference, the Open Technology Institute (OTI) at New America Foundation brought eleven staff and fourteen Digital Stewards from Detroit and Brooklyn, and collaborated with ten people from other organizations on sessions.
June 22nd in Detroit at Allied Media Conference: Bahamadia, Kyle Hall, DJ Dez Andrés, Lovers, Anthology of Booty
Major Media Projects from Transformative Art Practices. This is Why by Maggie McGuire. Lost Streets by Michelle Martinez and AHA:Art as a Healing Action by Stephanie Mae Howells
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Major Media Projects from Transformative Art Practices. This is Why by Maggie McGuire, Lost Streets by Michelle Martinez and AHA:Art as a Healing Action by Stephanie Mae Howells
DFM2013 - Major Media Projects from the Digital Stewards. 3 new community wireless mesh networks being built in Detroit.
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DFM2013 - Major Media Projects from the Education Focus Area. http://prezi.com/ywegqdd6b2ki/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
DFM2103 Major media projects - People's Kitchen Poster Series, All Mighty, Restorative Justice
Congrats to DFM class of 2013! Thank you for another wonderful year of DFM.
collaborative graphics in action: DFM graphics collage. http://instagram.com/p/Z9RFXJIK6G/
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Application to host a DFM apprentice has closed. Thank you to all those have applied! We will be in touch with you this week to see if we have a match.
Need wheels for AMC2013? DFM Alumni and network members, Fender Bender Detroit is offering bike rentals for Allied Media Conference. Reserve your bike here: https://store.alliedmedia.org/fender-bender-bike-rental-for-the-amc
check out this report by OTI on the wireless mesh networks being built through our Digital Stewards program in Detroit.
Community members launched two new wireless networks at the end of April in Detroit neighborhoods, with a third one still in the works. Built on the Commotion mesh wireless platform, these networks function as local communications infrastructure: they act as an intranet for community interactions, a...
DFM's very own, Raquel Castaneda-Lopez is running for city council. Like her page here.
Detroit City Council Member - District 6
Calling all organizations and small businesses in Detroit!
http://alliedmedia.org/news/2013/05/06/host-dfm-apprentice-and-improve-your-online-presence
Detroit Future Media is looking for organizations and small businesses who have a desire to develop effective digital media strategies incorporating web, graphics, or video. You are invited to host a
New Graphic done by Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis
DFM is proud to be one of the Global Finalists for the prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership!
It's not too late to sign up! 4 week workshop in Digital Photography with vanessa miller and/or Audio Recording with matthew cross. https://store.alliedmedia.org/dfm-photography
Only a few more days to sign up! Learn Audio Recording and Podcast: https://store.alliedmedia.org/dfm-audio
instructor: Matthew Cross presented at Allied Media Projects, 4126 3rd St., Detroit, MI Meets: 3/4/13 – 3/29/13, Wednesdays @ 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Childcare is free and provided upon request. DEADLINE TO REGISTE
Audio is about self-expression and intentional listening, shaping how we see and understand the world, our place in it, and how we understand each other. Our voices and the sounds of our environment make up the music of our natural lives. This course is built on the belief we should be documenting, shaping, and sharing music as much and as widely as possible, deepening our practice and process so we can be more effective agents of change in our communities and our world.
In the podcasting workshop, students will learn the basics of audio recording and capturing sound, develop organizational and interview skills, and explore strategies for distribution of recordings/podcasts through the production of audio projects.
https://store.alliedmedia.org/dfm-audio
Digital Photography is a powerful tool for citizen journalists to share their stories, creations, and life experiences. As citizen journalist we capture the moments around us understanding that stories are powerful and by sharing them we make ourselves and our communities stronger.
By the end of this workshop students will explore the power of photography and be able to use it in their media making practices. They will gain a basic understanding of the historical context of photography, the ethics behind documenting diverse communities, and storytelling: how photographs can be used to both reveal and hide the truth.
We will discuss how different cameras work, storage and organization of images. We will also explore different venues for sharing work, and ways to use photography to generate an income. We will practice complex and on the go lighting techniques, different genres of photography, as well as, learn how to edit photos using advanced editing software.
This class is intended for all skill levels and should hopefully help students establish their media making voices.
Childcare is free and provided upon request.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER - March 1st, 2013
https://store.alliedmedia.org/dfm-photography
Register today! http://alliedmedia.org//news/2013/02/25/register-workshops-digital-photography-podcasting-beatmaking-or-wearable-electronics
DFM For Everyone! Detroit Future Media (DFM) is opening up a select number of media making workshops to the public. These workshops are offered on an individual basis and have a limited number of s
Prep work for the upcoming Saturday session!!
DFM3 - Orientation
DFM class of 2013!
DFM3 applications are now officially closed. Thank you to everyone that applied!
Report-back video, media showcase, and opening remarks from the Detroit Future Celebration
Last Saturday, we hosted an event celebrating two years of building a digital justice movement in Detroit through our two-year federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Fund grant. The Detroit Future
Deadline to apply for DFM3 has been extended! Apply and spread the word.
http://media.detroitfuture.org/news/dfm3-deadline-apply-extended-sunday-dec-9th
Good news! The deadline to apply for DFM3 has been extended to Midnight of Sunday, Dec. 9th. If you are over the age of 16, have basic computer skills, and a strong interest in using media for a more
Let the DFM 2013 begin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e9yR1H8RLqU
Time to apply!
Detroit Future Media 2013
Read about our Apprenticeship Program, the newest component of the DFM! http://alliedmedia.org/#!/news/2012/08/28/detroit-future-media-apprenticeship-program
Allied Media Projects is wrapping-up of the apprenticeship component of our Detroit Future Media (DFM) training program. The DFM Apprenticeship Program is a three-month continued learning experience f
Hello AMC2012 conference go-ers, Detroit, and Detroit Futurist. Be sure to come out for the AMC opening reception hosted by Detroit Future. http://alliedmedia.org/news/2012/06/28/tonight-amc2012-opening-reception-hosted-detroit-future
Join us for an opening reception for the Allied Media Conference on Thursday, June 28, from 7pm - 11pm at The Furniture Factory, 4126 Third Street. This event is all ages and free. There will not be a
AMC2012 preview: 20 sessions
The AMC2012 schedule is 99.9% complete and we are building a new online session browser to present the sweeping range of content of this year's conference. We can't show it to you yet, but it is comin
Detroit Future Media's cover photo
Check out DFM2012: http://media.detroitfuture.org/news/detroit-future-media-orientation-2012
Last week's DFM Orientation 2012 kicked off the start of a new round of media classes. The orientation consisted of three days of information sharing and student reflection on what their goals are for
Allied Media Projects, 4126 3rd St
Detroit, MI
48201
We are now in the midst of the 3rd round of the DFM training program and over 150 students have gone through the program from neighborhoods representing a multitude of neighborhoods and communities in Detroit. In full, DFM houses 3 program coordinators, over 20 instructors, 150 participants and alumni, and over 50 organizations and small businesses, all of which are a part of and have helped to build Detroit Future Media. Detroit Future Media is a local program of Allied Media Projects
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The Progressive Underground w/ Chris Campbell
4600 Cass AveSociety of Professional Journalists: Wayne St
906 W Warren AveThrive Detroit Street Newspaper
26 Peterboro (inside Coalition on Temporary Shelter)
International Children Helping Children Organ
111 East Kirby
