Door Stops is a collaboration between designers, artists, riders and community residents to fill neglected public spaces, like transit stops and vacant lots, with seating opportunities to make the city a more pleasant place to be. Designed to provide a safer and aesthetically pleasing alternative to that which currently exists, the units are infused with large displays of public art commissioned from local artists, making for an easily identifiable, safe and pleasant waiting area for riders.

Architect, activist, and artist Dr. Craig L. Wilkins serves on the faculty of the University of Michigan's College of Architecture and Urban Planning. A 2017 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award winner, former director of the Detroit Community Design Center and hip-hop architectural theorist teaches courses on design and social justice.

The Detroit Community Design Center at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning focuses on providing ethical, participatory, socio-economically sensitive, aesthetically innovative and implementable design and planning solutions to public, private and institutional clientele in primarily, but not exclusively, under-served urban communities. Its method of environmental engagement is one of teaching and practicing in a manner that derives from, is relevant to, and vigorously engages the community in which the architecture and planning are placed. In short, the Detroit Community Design Center aspires to plan and design with, not for, local community-based development organizations, residents, as well as interested public and private institutions. We will fulfill our mission by employing three primary strategies of engagement – design, research and education.