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After graduating from University of Michigan back in 2010, Alex Manwell spent several months working at a high-end Manhattan real estate brokerage, and then a Washington DC- based research company. Both great jobs, both great cities, but he couldn't help but feel like he was missing out on what was happening in Detroit. He began looking for work in Detroit, and was lucky to land a job working at an environmental engineering firm in the region. He moved back and immediately began getting involved in the Hostel. After 7 months, countless cups of coffee, hundreds of phone calls, some minor blunders, and some major strides, Alex is proud to sit on the Board of Directors of Detroit's coolest business: Hostel Detroit.
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"This is the story of how I ended up with 24,000 Detroit postcards in the trunk of my car, and why I love it.
Shooting Detroit's one-of-a-kind cityscape over the past three years for my architecture blog turned me into a helpless evangelist for the city's raw beauties. It's a calling that's taken me to finer public libraries around the metro area over the past two years giving my slideshow and lecture, ""Love the One You're with: On Architecture & Urbanism in Detroit.""
This compulsion also led in a straight line to my fledgling postcard empire.
Long in despair over the quality of Detroit urban-view postcards -- and convinced of the power these souvenirs have to shape an outsider's memory of a city -- I shot and printed my own under the auspices of a new company I call Unexpected Detroit.
I want to grab viewers by the metaphorical collar with an image pretty enough to surprise them. I want them to admit to our architectural wonders, and -- however grudgingly -- concede the beauty even in the collapse of the Packard plant, which stars in a couple of my cards. I want some s.o.b. in -- I don't know -- Cincinnati or San Francisco to pull one out of the mailbox and go, ""Whoa. THAT'S in Detroit?""
I want to help metro Detroiters see the city with fresh eyes. I want to get them past the sadness that overwhelms so many the minute they drive south of Eight Mile Road. I want to say, ""I'm 56, for God's sake. Detroit has been a wreck since I was a kid. Get over it!""
I want to champion how to read interest and even beauty in all parts of our oddball, dramatically bleak cityscape. I want to inspire a passion that Detroit, like New Orleans, is a national treasure that needs to be rebuilt.
But we can only reach that promised land if we embrace the whole city, not just the tidy bits in the New Center and downtown.
So I'm doing my part -- one postcard out of 24,000 at a time. It's a cause. Honest to God, I've never been happier.
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Ignite Automotive 2
7:30pm EST Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Global Ignite Week
Walter P. Chrysler Museum
One Chrysler Way
Auburn Hills, Michigan USA
Metro Detroit's tragic history has left it without vibrant central city... or has it? Straddling both the city and suburbs, the Woodward Corridor is a great American city hidden in plain sight. It defines a walkable urban core for southeast Michigan that is already surprisingly competitive and with further collaboration and effort could be world class.
What is Ignite?
Ignite is a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes.