changing the urban landscape with community maps, fundraising & a dash of awesome sauce.
LOVELAND Technologies

Note from the team: This year we're focusing on bringing Why Don't We Own This? to the next level. In addition to offering more free public information (citywide ownership, tax distress, and foreclosure risk), we've started a $25 Membership level that grants access to our Labs area and additional mapping and neighborhood tools. We've also started offering private, customized, multi-user professional packages for businesses, government, large projects and neighborhood groups.

Why Don't We Own This?
Wdwot

WDWOT displays every property in Detroit along with different data layers and social channels. Public information is free, and we also offer additional tools to paying members ($25), as well as custom professional packages.


Talk to the Station
Ttts

Play a part in the preservation and redevelopment of Detroit's most iconic historical landmark by sharing your ideas for its use and improvement. The owners are listening.

Client: Ambassador Bridge Co.


Detroit Design Festival 2012
Ddf

DDF is powered by Design in Detroit, an online platform that allows individuals and institutions across Southeast Michigan to engage, connect and partner with Detroit’s creative, entrepreneurial community to encourage social-economic change in the city of Detroit. The DC3 established DDF to connect creatives with one another, expose them to new markets and consumers, and expose Detroit’s creative talent and collective design aesthetic to national and global audiences.

Client: Detroit Creative Corridor Center


ESD Score Card 2012
Esd

To become excellent, Detroit's schools need clear and consistent information about how they're doing. Our children's futures depend on it. This site gives you school-level profiles and begins to connect the dots between school quality and accountability.

Client: Excellent Schools Detroit


Buy a Frame of Lemonade: Detroit
Lemonade

OWN A PIECE OF "LEMONADE: DETROIT" FOR $1/FRAME. We're inviting you to purchase individual frames of "Lemonade: Detroit" and become an IMDB-credited producer* in the process. For $1/frame, $24/second, or $1440/minute, you can play a huge part in making the film. Join the movement now!

Client: Erik Proulx


WDET Call to Action
Wdet

As part of their drive to unlock 10,000 new volunteer hours in Detroit, WDET 101.9 FM commissioned us to create a beautiful online source of charities and neighborhood associations.

Client: WDET 101.9 FM


SiteControl
Sitecontrol

Have you ever wanted to know who owns the world around you? This application, to the best of its ability, will tell you who owns precisely where you are right now. This pilot project centers on Detroit, MI where we have gathered citywide ownership data.


One Day In Detroit
Oneday

Everyone who lives in Detroit is a part-time tour guide, and everyone who doesn't live here wants to check it out but doesn't know how. One Day In Detroit makes it easy to create and find custom tours that people can complete in a day.


detroitsoccer.us
Soccer

Follow your neighborhood and favorite teams in the Detroit City Futbol League through game day text messages to stay up on the action from the comfort of your own pocket.


LOVELAND Micro Real Estate
Inchernet

The original experimental mixed-reality novelty micro real estate laboratory is hibernating while LOVELAND tackles city-scale projects. Thank you so much to everyone who had fun inchvesting, dreaming, doing, and making cool things happen in the city here so far. Stay tuned as the inchventure continchues...


Living in the Map
Litm

Living in the Map is all about putting Detroit online and making it accessible, understandable, fundable, and interactive. Starting with the basic building blocks of land parcels, ownership data, and a simple job creation and payment system, residents now have a free and easy resource for understanding, sharing, and supporting what specifically is around them.


LoveTax
Lovetax

There's someone or something you want to support. You could give them money once and walk away, or you can use LoveTax to support them in a simple, sustainable, social way, and invite others to do the same. It's the easiest way to make and receive subscription payments, AKA voluntary monthly taxes to support the things you love.


MoviePass Beta (Popcorn)
Moviepass

We crafted an interactive signup page for the MoviePass beta. Every email address gathered reveals more of the QR code on the theater screen. The audience is invited to watch out for excellent moviegoing prizes on the site.

Client: MoviePass


Watts at the Imagination Station
Watts

Support the Imagination Station and generate Watts. Money is a form of social energy. Every dollar you contribute to the Imagination Station's development becomes a unit of currency called a Watt. Later you'll be able to spend them with project partners in Detroit.

Client: Imagination Station


In the News

Detroit's Property Tax Black Hole, in Map Form
The Atlantic Cities, January 29, 2013
Why Don't We Own This Site Maps Detroit's Housing Crisis With New Tools To Battle Back
Huffington Post, January 28, 2013
detroit told in a social map of distressed property taxes
designboom, January 28, 2013
Detroit company launches online map of foreclosed homes
Detroit News, January 25, 2013
A Stunning Visual of Detroit's Tax Situation From Why Don't We Own This
Curbed, January 24, 2013
No property left behind recapped
Model D, December 4, 2012
What can be done with Detroit's thousands of empty properties?
mlive.com, November 29, 2012
Wayne County Foreclosed Property Auction: Jerry Paffendorf And Alex Alsup Talk No Property Left Behind
Huffington Post, November 27, 2012