Allied Media Projects cultivates media strategies for a more just and creative world.
From the intersection of communications, art, technology, education and social justice, we share and develop models for transforming ourselves and our communities. Read our mission and network principles.
AMP organizes the annual Allied Media Conference. Our local programs innovate media-based practices in education, economic development and community organizing.
The Allied Media Conference is a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit.
The AMC is a network of networks – social justice organizers, community technologists, transformative artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and many others – all using media in innovative ways.
The 15th annual AMC is June 20 - June 23, 2013 in Detroit. Be a part of it: REGISTER TODAY!
AMP’s local programs innovate practices in education, economic development and community organizing. We are a founding member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.
Detroit Future Media teaches core digital media competencies, and their application in community organizing, education, and entrepreneurship.
Through Detroit Future Schools we integrate digital media arts in the classroom.
AMPTalk is a discussion and organizing system for the Allied Media Projects network.
We use AMPtalk to coordinate, share, and document Allied Media Conference sessions, tracks, network gatherings, and practice spaces.
Start a discussion on the AMPtalk Newswire or share job postings, grant opportunities, and calls for submissions on the Opportunities board.
Contact us, we'd love to hear from you.
Calling all Kids, Tweens, Youth, Young at Heart, Parents, Families and Friends! The Intergalactic Conspiracy of Childcare Collectives (ICCC) is beginning to build a wonderful world of children’s programing for the upcoming Allied Media Conference (AMC) this June in Detroit. We are working to create a space for kids, tweens, youth, parents and childcare providers to hold our own space at the AMC.
Help us get the word out by sharing these fantastical images on social media.
Why do organizers love science metaphors so much? Rhizomes, dandelions, "grassroots." Maybe it’s our conscious or subconscious desire to realign human social organization with the organization of the natural world.
The Allied Media Conference was founded as the Midwest Zine Conference in 1999 and we are excited to carry forward the zine practice and culture as we enter the conference's 15th year with the release of How We Organize the AMC Zine Vol. 1.
Everyday we communicate something about who we are, who we want and what kind of world we want with our clothes and our bodies. How can we understand the ways that fashion builds community and simultaneously excludes from community? How can we reclaim beauty in our own fat, QTPOC, disabled, radical selves?