Looking for a custom multi-day, in-depth experience for your organization, department, or municipality?

Check out City Institute, an affiliate of DXF.

Started by DXF founder Jeanette Pierce, The City Institute shares lessons learned from Detroit to inspire individuals, organizations and cities to innovate for a better future.

Offerings include Learning Journeys, in-depth experiences that focus on Detroit as a classroom including site visits, panel discussions, and case studies; the City Experience Program, advice and resources to help cities craft interactive experiences that connect locals and newcomers to the people, places and projects that make each city unique; and Keynotes and Workshops, presentations and interactive workshops to share Detroit’s lessons learned at events and conferences locally and around the world.

City Institute’s ability to combine observations of current conditions, historical facts and recent statistics with powerful anecdotes and individual stories of Detroiters was extremely valuable in helping us begin to understand the complexity and dynamism of the city of Detroit.
— Robert Stein, Harvard Loeb Fellows

Past clients include:

  • State of Oregon

  • Harvard University Loeb Fellows

  • City of Graz, Austria

  • Salesforce

  • CDAD

  • City of Portland

  • Nike