Kyong Park founded the "International Center for Urban Ecology" in Detroit. The ICUE is an interdisciplinary, experimental school whose brief is to develop and test a new paradigm, using Detroit to plan and see a new economic, political and social structure flourish. Since 1958, Detroit has lost almost one million inhabitants. People have abandoned the city itself and gone to the suburbs; thousands of houses and homes have been destroyed and burnt, leaving plenty of room for real estate speculation. Through its very ruination, Detroit is becoming the city of the future. In this process, the Low East Side, Detroit's largest ghetto, is doomed to disappear in the race for redevelopment. The ICUE project, set up in these same areas, involves protecting the neighbourhood from the damage done by speculation, and "turn the ghetto into an utopia", by being established within the community, in order to reconstruct with it. The project is called "Resistance Architecture". The ICUE is demolishing the burnt houses, bit by bit, and reusing the salvaged bits in the new constructions, on the actual foundations of the former homes. The properties have to be purchased, then rendered usable, and then sold or rented at affordable prices. Rebuilding for the community and Reconstructing the community; setting up a capital which, by reinvestment, will help to extend the process. The ICUE strategy brings architecture back to its basic principles: reconstructing the city using burnt buildings and houses. This is what the installation: "Detroit: Making it Better for You" will put across.	(USA)
	Kyong Park Park (Kyong)
	• "Detroit : Making it Better for you"