Michigan Tech Week

We Don’t Think Outside the Box — We Don’t Even See the Box

 

At Latino Voices in Tech (Michigan Tech Week), we shared the design philosophy that drives Design Think Tank. Rethinking the built environment requires breaking away from conventional playbooks—starting not with rigid rules, but with what communities actually need.

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By applying Detroit’s world-class industrial manufacturing to architectural challenges, we evolved from custom street lighting systems to P.A.D., a mass-producible, scalable housing model engineered to adapt throughout a home’s lifecycle. Watch the full talk to learn how we turn local industrial capacity into transformative urban architecture.