Detroit, on the water. (Image courtesy Bernt Rostad via Flickr.)

The Detroit Design Festival kicks off today, celebrating the city’s resilient design community with five days of events, installations, lectures and workshops.

“It is a call to action for the community,” reads the festival’s webpage, “to improve quality of life in and around Detroit.”

Among the sights this week is an inflatable structure named Spacebuster first designed for New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture. It will take up residence outside Mies’ Lafayette Park Friday.

A full schedule of the events, which take place through Sunday, is available here. The kick-off party is tonight at 6:00 p.m. at 3011 W. Grand Blvd.