Allied Media Projects X LOVE building: A collaborative partnership years in the making. 

After 5 years, Allied Media Projects and our friends at Detroit Justice Center,  Detroit Community Technology Project, Detroit Narrative Agency, and Detroit Disability Power have moved into the LOVE Building in Detroit! 

For more than 20 years, the AMC was an elaborate, ephemeral container for our movements to envision and practice the worlds we need. Overtime, as we rooted in Detroit, we strengthened the multitude of ways we could develop, fund, and resource our movements to make the radical practical. To that end, the LOVE Building is the embodiment of the AMC in permanent form. 

Through the ideation of the LOVE Building, we have prioritized disability justice and access into the physical and programmatic design of the building, with barrier-free entrances, elevator redundancy, tactile wayfinding maps, and fragrance free cleaning products. More importantly, the LOVE Building is committed to engaging in the ongoing, iterative process that access and disability justice requires.  

Our multimedia community event space is equipped with areas for childcare, lactation, prayer & meditation, and healing justice practices—and the dance floor has a sprung subfloor for shock absorption!  

Just as the AMC shape-shifted to become the space that our communities needed across many eras, so too will the LOVE Building be a living, emerging container for the practicing of new worlds.  

We are thrilled to open our doors to the community for our first public event at the LOVE Building! Join us this week for our final Seeds event, Waging Love: Building an Environmentally Just Detroit on September 14th.

Thursday, September 14th, 2023 | 7:00 PM | LOVE Building

From summer floods to widespread power outages, all Detroiters are impacted by the escalating climate crisis and unjust environmental policies facing our city. This community panel will bring together leaders from Detroit’s environmental & climate justice movements – Ahmina Maxey, Monica Lewis-Patrick, and Chrystal Ridgeway – to amplify the solutions we need to ensure safety and equity for all. Rooting in Detroit activist and water warrior Charity Mahouna Hicks’ call to “wage love,” we’ll share fellowship, strategies, healing, and visions for an environmentally just Detroit. We will have a performance by DanceAbility Detroit and snacks provided by Nourish Ramen. RSVP here to join in on the event!

Join Black Bottom Archives for the first Sankofa Teach-in: Black Bottom Resistance + Reparations. We will be joined by an excellent panel of Black Detroit historians, cultural workers, artists, and organizers to discuss the history of Black Bottom, and highlight connections between the historic efforts Black Detroiters have made to resist erasure and displacement with today’s movement to continue those efforts and advocate for reparations for Black Detroiters. We will also break bread and spend time collectively vision what reparations should look like as part of the I-375 Reconnecting Communities development project.