The D.W.W. (Detroit-Windsor-Waawiyaataanong) Urbiome, aka Dee Double Dub, is a vast ecologically integrated metropolis situated on the Detroit River in the Southern Great Lakes Eco-region. It is a radically optimistic speculative vision of a benevolent civic structure that has evolved to enable all of its inhabitants, human and otherwise, to thrive.
Dee Double Dub is described in a 12 page comic called Welcome to Dee Double Dub. This artwork was created for Future Present: Design in a Time of Urgency, an exhibition presented by Science Gallery Detroit in the fall of 2020.
Exhibitions and Presentations
This is event is a passionate reading of Welcome to Dee Double Dub by the artist, Marc Ngui, and participation with the Marc in the panel discussion for Galvanized Suns, a 3 day online media program that features artworks that "re-imagine pasts, presents, and futures through narratives of diaspora outside of Western hegemony by artists, designers, performers and writers who contribute to Caribbean and Latin American diaspora culture in Canada."
Hosted online by Subtle Technologies -
Artist Reading:
Thursday, October 15th at 8:45pm EST
Artists' Panel Talk:
Saturday, October 17th at 8:00pm EST
Galvanized Suns is organized by the curatorial collective Diasporic Futurisms in partnership with Subtle Technologies.
Workshop
In this workshop, hosted by Science Gallery Detroit, I will explain how I created Welcome to Dee Double Dub using a speculative design methodology called Future Parfait. Join us for a short presentation about Future Parfait, after which I'll guide participants through a series of visualization activities that will begin their own exploration into imagining and drawing out their own ideal worlds.
Press
Science Gallery Detroit explores design "in a time of urgency"
Detroit News, September 30, 2020
Artist imagines utopian Detroit-Windsor region in comic book form
Windsor Star, October 05 2020
