The Work Department is an integrative design studio based in Detroit.
We co-create programs, processes, and materials with organizations to deepen their relationships and amplify their social impact. Our practice integrates people-centered design, systems thinking, equity, and strategy.
Feeding America, Economic Mobility Assessment
Project Play Southeast Michigan
Cody Rouge & Warrendale Youth-Centric Neighborhood Framework
Women of Banglatown Visioning
Detroit City of Design Values
Detroit Future City, Working with Lots
Foodlab Detroit Cohort
Allied Media Conference
Detroit, UNESCO City of Design
Since 2010, we’ve worked with hundreds of clients on projects of all sizes.
ARCHIVE OF PAST WORK
Affirmations
Amicci's Pizza
Astraea
Astral Weeks
Charles H Wright Museum
City of Detroit
City of Hamtramck
City of Roseville
CLASS
Coalition for Home Repair
College for Creative Studies
Commotion Wireless
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Damon J Keith Center for Civil Rights
Davidson College
Design Fabrications
Detroit Community Wealth Fund
Detroit Creative Corridor Center
Detroit Democracy Project
Detroit Equity Action Lab
Detroit Farm and Garden
Detroit Food Academy
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Lives
Detroit Parks Coalition
Detroit Promise Zone Authority
Detroit Regional Chamber
Detroit Revitilization Fellows
Detroit Sound Conservancy
Detroit Waldorf
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
DiClemente Siegel Design
Dooney & Bourke
Downtown Detroit Partnership
Dynamic Computer Corporation
Early Works
Eastside Community Network
EcoWorks
Excellent Schools Detroit
Feeding America
Ford Motor Company
Gleaners Community Food Bank
Global Detroit
Great Lakes Environmental Law Center
Growing Hope
Hamtramck Downtown Development Authority
Healthy Kids Healthy Michigan
Hector
Henry Ford Health
Historic Fort Wayne
Home Health Notify
IFF
Land and Water Works Coalition
Lear
Make Food Not Waste
Metro Matters
Michigan Founders Fund
Michigan State University
Mindful Detroit
MIT Center for Civic Media
MOCAD
Mt Elliot Makerspace
Multiplier Advisors
Neighborhood Service Organization
New America Foundation, Resilient Communities
New Solutions Group
On Board
People in Education
Planet Detroit
Plowshares Theatre Company
Project Play Southeast Michigan - 1 / 2
Project Play Western New York
ProsperUs
Public Power Project
Root of Two
Safe Water Engineering
School for Poetic Computation
Slows
The James & Grace Lee Boggs School
Tour de Troit
Trust for Public Land
University of Michigan
Villages CDC
Voices from the Grassroots
Waldorf Institute of Southeast Michigan
We the People
Western Wayne Food Policy Council
Wheelhouse Detroit