Detroit Uprising is Riot of Colors’ immersive storytelling prototype exploring the 1967 Detroit rebellion through a layered, evidence-based archive experience. The project examines a defining moment in American history, when racial injustice, police violence, economic inequality, and civic unrest collided in Detroit and exposed the deep fractures shaping cities across the country. Rather than treating the uprising as a static timeline, the experience frames it as a living investigation, allowing audiences to move through events, records, headlines, locations, and perspectives that reveal how history is documented, contested, and remembered.
Riot of Colors designed the project as a cinematic archive engine that turns complex historical material into an interactive journey. Through a radial evidence map, connected records, timeline-driven navigation, and article pathways, users can trace relationships between incidents, public response, government action, and media coverage surrounding the uprising. The result is both a digital history tool and a storytelling experience, built to help audiences better understand the forces behind the 1967 Detroit uprising and the lasting questions it raises about power, community, accountability, and memory.
