Hart Plaza

Every Memorial Day weekend, the genre Detroit invented comes home. Hart Plaza — the sweeping concrete plaza on the downtown riverfront — has hosted the city’s electronic music festival since 2000, when it began as the DEMF (Detroit Electronic Music Festival) and grew into today’s Movement.

For one weekend, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world fill the plaza for the pioneers and the newcomers, with the Detroit River and Canada as the backdrop. The rest of the year it’s an ordinary, beautiful public space — Noguchi’s Dodge Fountain, the river views, room to breathe — but for techno fans it’s hallowed ground: the place where the music gets celebrated at full volume in the city that made it. Free to wander any day; transcendent on the right weekend.