Poetic Platforms foster cross-cultural connection and collective healing through pop-ups in underutilized spaces and parks that bring families, friends, and parkgoers to enjoy and celebrate Chicago's rich arts and cultural diversity together
Poetic Platforms foster cross-cultural connection and collective healing through pop-ups in underutilized spaces and parks that bring families, friends, and parkgoers to enjoy and celebrate Chicago's rich arts and cultural diversity together.
Poetic Platforms foster cross-cultural connection and collective healing through pop-ups in underutilized spaces and parks by bringing families, friends, and parkgoers to enjoy and celebrate Chicago's rich arts and cultural diversity together. OACChicago also encourages participants to become “everyday designers”, and co-creators of more inclusive- and equitable public spaces by exploring community-led culture-making through the arts, culture performance, interactive installations, and wellness activities.
Poetic Platforms. Play. Create. Connect. Amplify. Poetic Platforms foster cross-cultural connection and collective healing through pop-ups in underutilized spaces and parks. A family and community arts and culture event.
Poetic Platforms is a Three-part PopUp Series
OACChicago's Poetic Platforms. Play. Create. Connect. Amplify is partnering with Chicago Park District Night Out in the Parks and others to encourage the "everyday designer" to engage in critical community discussions by activating public and private spaces. Together, we help to shape the physical and social character of a shared area around our collective creative potential, reflection, making, cultural, and prototyping activities that allow participants to learn about their personal sense of community and place.
Join us for this Saturday for play, performances, healing, art & placemaking at:
Marquette Park
Saturday, 7.31.21 |10:30am- 3pm
Please join us at our final celebration for this Poetic Platforms series. From a morning workout to cross-cultural yoga flows with live musical accompaniment, we invite you to come shake out then step into your body. Following that, we invite you to step onto our Poetic Platform and share some words, a song, your story. Come be a co-creator as we try to manifest and design our spaces inclusive of healing, community, and culture. What do You see?
11am-12noon: With the Chicago skyline as a backdrop, Coach Chris from Elite Squad will introduce a straightforward fitness system specifically made for participants who want to start off the day with a great sweat and on individuals who want to kickstart beginner workout programs.
12-2pm: A Cross-Cultural Flow w/ Live Music: YogiPosa featuring Son Monarcas and Latin Fusion Folk and E'a the Wholistic Artist with AfroSoul and live African drumming will do back-to-back all-level flows. RSVPs are encouraged for this event separately but all are welcome and we have plenty of grassy space to stretch out and move.
12-5pm: Please join us under the 18th street bridge to help co-create a community mural project. Paint supplies and extra PPE will be provided. Pablo Serrano and Kombi will be facilitating.
12-5pm: Healing Every Youth (HEY) will be facilitating various art projects that will make you think about your built environment while healing your inner space. Come heal, play, and learn with us! HEY will also have mental health practitioners with referral capabilities for those seeking clinical support. This is a safe and positive space. We encourage and support You.
2-3:30pm: Suri Wong, Victor Musoni, and Haven Studio mentees will be facilitating an open mic, as well as performing at The (Poetic) Platform under 18th Street bridge. Come support our local artists and share in your experiences too. Come drop a mic.
3:30-5pm: Pablo and the People’s Stage Karaoke will take over the platform in musical celebration of culture and community.
We will have social-distance protocols in place and plenty of hand sanitizer, wipes, and even gloves available. Please make sure to enter the park from S. Wells & W. 19th Street (closest address is 298 W. 19th Street).
Join us at Dorchester Community Garden for an afternoon of wellness and interactive installations that make you think about how you engage with the built environment around you. We’ll start with a special breath+movement session at 12pm led by Black Brown + Breathing. This is not to be missed and an RSVP is a must due to limited capacity and social distancing protocols. We will also have mental health practitioners with referral capabilities providing services and resources as well as art-based activities we will gift to the garden and neighborhood.
Join us at Butter Cup Park in Uptown for an afternoon of interactive installations that make you think about how you engage with the built environment around you. We’ll have a special sound installation featuring Lional “Brother El” Freeman of The Beat Bank. Come help us kick off Poetic Platforms in the first of three pop-ups around the city of Chicago!
OAC has partnered with Haman Cross, Artist, Eric Hotchkiss, SAIC, David Brown, of UIC School of Architecture, Lincoln Park Zoo. The Douglass 18 will be a not-so hidden gem in North Lawndale.
College and high school students from Phil Jackson's Firehouse will be asset mapping, conservation design, creating prototypes, bird houses and art panels. We are looking for volunteers to help with the fabrications of student and community-led design.
The mini-golf course is behind the field house of Douglass Park (Sacramento Ave. & Roosevelt Ave.) If you are interested in either helping the students with CAD drawings of their mini-golf course hole or volunteering during the Build Days of 6/1 or 6/8 email Cory Stevenson, cory@openarchchicago.org or Craig Stevenson, craig@openarchchicago.org.
OAC has partnered with Haman Cross, Artist, Eric Hotchkiss, SAIC, David Brown, of UIC School of Architecture, Lincoln Park Zoo. The Douglass 18 will be a not-so hidden gem in North Lawndale.
College and high school students from Phil Jackson's Firehouse will be asset mapping, conservation design, creating prototypes, bird houses, and art panels.
We are looking for volunteers to help with the fabrications of the students on June 1st and 8th and volunteer architect team to support the community-led design with drawings for 18.
The mini-golf course is behind the field house of Douglass Park (Sacramento Ave. & Roosevelt Ave.) If you are interested in either helping the students with CAD drawings of their mini-golf course hole or volunteering during the Build Days of 6/1 or 6/8 email Cory Stevenson, [cory@openarchchicago.org](mailto:cory@openarchchicago.org) or Craig Stevenson, [craig@openarchchicago.org](mailto:craig@openarchchicago.org).
Architect and urban designer Tobias Armborst will lecture on Tuesday, May 14, as part of MAS Context’s 2019 Spring Talks series. The lecture will take place at the Scoiety of Architectural Historians (1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610).
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Urban History 101 teaches us that the built environment is not the product of invisible, uncontrollable market forces, but of human-made tools that could have been used differently (or not at all). The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion is an encyclopedia of 202 tools—or what we call "weapons"—used by architects, planners, policy-makers, developers, real estate brokers, activists, and other urban actors in the United States use to restrict or increase access to urban space. The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion inventories these weapons, examines how they have been used, and speculates about how they might be deployed (or retired) to make more open cities in which more people feel welcome in more spaces.
For more information about this talk, please visit: http://www.mascontext.com/events/mas-context-spring-talks-2019/tobias-armborst-may-14-2019/
MAS Context is supported in part by private donations. For information about how to support MAS Context, please visit: www.mascontext.com/support
pen Architecture Chicago is partnering with ValerioDewalt Train Associates to host a fun and educational family, friendly volunteer build day at Big Marsh Park (CPD) on Saturday, May 4.
There are opportunities to volunteer on that Saturday or to participate on the design team at Valerio Dewalt Train Associates. If you want to participate in the design
Big Marsh Park is at 11555 S. Stony Island. Once active industrial property, the site was acquired by CPD in 2011 and opened in 2016. It now marries habitat restoration and eco-recreation with public use. We will work out transportation needs.
We have two shipping containers that desperately need interior design + renovation to support community programming and house materials and resources for our volunteer corps. We need to draft a simple, creative design that utilizes the space to support our needs (shelving, hooks, lockers, storage, respite, benches, etc.) and then use the work day to install/build out the spaces.
And, there are 4 other containers with many possibilities to be designed with community input.
If you're interested in volunteering on the design team with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates or on the build day, email craig@openarchchicago.org. If you want to participate in the design email ASAP.
Join OAC and Rebuilding Together for Rebuild Day. We will be helping Ms. Burns is a vivacious 69-year-old woman who has lived in her two-flat for the past 46 year with minor repairs..She is a survivor of breast cancer and likes to live life to the fullest! We are looking for up to 15 volunteers. To participate in the Rebuild Day, there is a $40 fee with includes food, transportation, and a free tee-shirt. For more information reach out to the OAC house-captain Bo Braderich, bo@openarchchicago.org.
The visible culmination of the home repair program occurs annually on National Rebuilding Day - the last Saturday in April. Teams of volunteers are mobilized to work in partnership with the community to repair the homes and improve the neighborhoods of local residents so that they may continue to live in warmth, safety and independence.
Each year, in preparation for National Rebuilding Day, Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago recruits and trains sponsor teams, identifies and screens homeowner applicants, raises private funds for building materials, and coordinates the logistics of a volunteer effort that encompasses over 3,000 people.
Architecture scholar Despina Stratigakos will lecture on Thursday, April 25, as part of MAS Context’s 2019 Spring Talks series. The lecture will take place at Ross Barney Architects (10 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, Illinois 60654).
Unconscious Bias in Architecture: Why Don’t Architects Wear Pink?
Unconscious bias in architecture creates beliefs about who does or does not belong in the profession, which can undermine our best intentions to be inclusive. By bringing those biases up to the surface so that we can examine them, we can be more intentional in the decisions we make in our everyday and professional practices. Using lessons from history and the power of Architect Barbie, this talk explores architecture’s gendered biases and how we can uproot them.
For more information about this talk, please visit: http://www.mascontext.com/events/mas-context-spring-talks-2019/despina-stratigakos-april-25-2019/
MAS Context is supported in part by private donations. For information about how to support MAS Context, please visit: www.mascontext.com/support
Bridging technological developments with the needs of everyday life, design is instrumental in introducing novel solutions to our most complex problems. But emerging technologies often have unintended consequences. Design tools can not only stimulate the generation of new applications for emerging technologies, they can also facilitate the discussion about their implications. Girling will discuss the intersection of design and emerging technologies and share his expertise in working on a broad spectrum of projects and solutions, from designing new products that integrate emerging technologies, to introducing systemic interventions, to confronting complex urban problems.
Rob Girling is a co-founder and design principal at Artefact, a Seattle-based design and innovation consultancy where he oversees creative work, methodologies, and daily operations. Rob has 16 years of experience in the field of user experience design and has worked as a design manager at Microsoft, a senior interaction designer at IDEO, and a lead game designer at Sony Computer Entertainment of America. He started his career at Apple after winning its Apple Student Interface Design Competition. He has a master’s degree in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in London.
Ethical questions, human interfaces and technology, and the future.
Join our Product Strategy and Design meetup!
https://www.meetup.com/Product-Strategy-and-Design-Chicago/
As designers, technologist, and business leaders, the promise of artificial intelligence offers us a world of opportunities. At this meet-up our diverse panel of thought leaders will discuss the ethics, human interfaces, technology, and the future of AI. Come learn about this complex subject while enjoying a night of food, drink and networking. – An interpreter for the hearing impaired will be present.
CWA welcomes all to our March Forum, which will be a Panel Discussion to celebrate women in our industry and their unique paths through the architecture profession into leadership roles that redefine the ‘Traditional Path’ of an Architect. We will seek to empower the professionals trained and skilled in architecture, to continue to develop their careers along the best path for individual success.
**Lite bites and beverages will be provided.
Topic: Navigating Diverse Careers through Architecture into Leadership
Panelists: (an extraordinary panel of Star-chitects in our community!)
Perri Irmer, President & CEO - DuSable Museum
Ann Thompson, Senior Vice President, Architecture & Design - Related Midwest
Jenny Han, Director of Healthcare Design - Skender
Alicia Ponce, Principal & Founder - APMonarch LLC
Join IIDA and ASID Illinois Chapters for an informative discussion on current legislation and future legislative goals for all Illinois Interior Designers. Engage with panelists for an informal conversation on elevating the Interior Design profession. Network with your peers after the forum with complimentary cocktails and small bites provided by Marshalls Landing at the top of the Mart Steps. Don't miss this informative and exciting discussion where you will learn how to be become a better Advocate for our profession.
Wed, February 6, 2019
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CST
theMART Grand Staircase
222 West Merchandise Mart Plaza
#470
Chicago, IL 60654
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Registration
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Forum
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cocktails and Networking
Join the IIDA Illinois Chapter for an exciting evening which celebrates our members both old and new as well as our amazing annual sponsors. Eat and drink your way through the art gallery, which will feature custom graphics inspired by the art of language and the Pantone color of the year “Living Coral”. Next, get in line to have a new, professional headshot taken by one of the photographers stationed throughout the venue. Dancing is encouraged as our DJ Charles Protégé will be mixing all night. We can’t wait to see you there.
Date And Time
Thu, January 31, 2019
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
Chez Event Venue
247 East Ontario Street
#2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Design for Social Impact Workshop
The Design for Social Impact workshop will focus on learning design thinking methods to help create stronger, user-centered products and services in the social sector. This will be a fun day of hands-on activities that focuses on learning and practicing the core methods of the human centered design process. During the course of the day, we will apply a human-centered design methodology to Casa Central, a local nonprofit organization's challenge. Specifically, we will cover:
• Building Empathy for your User
• Making Sense of User Research
• Generating Ideas and Prototyping Solutions
• Pitching your Ideas
This is not a workshop just for designers (though we welcome them). We encourage participants who work in not-for-profit, social services, or anyone interested in learning about tools to help make a difference to attend the workshops. There is no prior experience necessary.
You will leave this session equipped to apply human-centered design methods to challenges across industries and sectors.
Ticket Pricing
$99 for workshop, lunch, and snacks
Make sure to indicate any dietary needs in the registration form.
Code of Conduct
By registering to attend this event, you agree to abide by AIGA Chicago Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct may be found here.
Hashtags & Handles
#DesignForSocialImpact
#AIGAChicago
@AIGAChicago
@Salesforce
@designationio
Special thanks to Mary Foyder, Amy Guterman, Pooja Merai and LeAnne Wagner, AIGA Chicago's Design for Social Impact Committee, for organizing this event and to Salesforce and Designation for sponsoring this event. Additional thanks to Virtue Cider and RXBAR for their in-kind sponsorship.
The 2019 Urban Innovation Symposium will return to its roots by focusing on collaborative creativity to solve a plethora of problems challenging the urban environment. The format will include expert deep dive lectures on specific topics as well as standard panel discussions to deliberate with experts and innovators within their respective fields. The discussions will touch on Claiming Spaces: The Role of Public Art as Place-maker; The Language of Environmental Justice; Future of Co-ops; Zoning, Land-use, & Affordable Housing; Neighborhoods & Sustainable Design; and Transportation Equity. Don't miss this opportunity to explore perspectives different from your own, and come away with renewed energy for conversation and collaboration!
FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 2019
DAY SESSION:
11:15am - 3:15pm
UIC Student Center East Room 329
750 S Halsted St
EVENING SESSION:
4:30pm - 9:45pm
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W 19th St
THE Holiday Party of the season is back! Find all of your favorite people at ONE awesome holiday party this year. Join members and friends of the Chicago Living Future Collaborative, Passive House Alliance Chicago, Illinois Green Alliance, AIA Chicago COTE, CNU Illinois, Open Architecture Collaborative, and the International Building Performance Simulation Association Chicago Chapter(CHIBPSA) for an evening of food, drinks, music and good times.
Learn a little about each organization, find ways to collaborate, and learn about how to get more involved in 2019 projects and initiatives!
Food and drinks are included in your ticket price.
Donate to the Sustainable Living Drive
Support green and healthy living in affordable housing buildings in Chicago by making a donation to the Sustainable Living Drive. Donations will be used to purchase materials like recycling bins, LED light bulbs, and green cleaning products for residents in local affordable housing buildings. To make a donation, select the Ticket + Sustainable Living Drive option when registering. Additionally, the following donations will also be accepted on-site at THE Holiday Party:
LED light bulbs
Green cleaning products
Sturdy reusable bags (nylon, canvas, etc.)
Compostable plates, utensils, cups
$5 donations – there will be a Square Card Reader on-site
By making a donation to the Sustainable Living Drive, you will be entered into a raffle. You will receive your raffle ticket at the event.
Thank you to our generous event host and sponsors! SKENDER
Join Open Architecture Chicago for our COMMUNITY SHARE OUT December 4, 2018, 6:30-8pm at Ping Tom Park. We’re mobilizing architects, designers, and neighborhood leaders to end injustice in our communities through the advocacy and design within the built environment.
To better fulfill our mission to work with communities to create sustainable, innovative, and socially responsive design in the City of Chicago we are gathering community leaders, existing partners, and our volunteers to give feedback on our current projects and ideas about the future.
Refreshments will be served.
Location: Ping Tom Park
1700 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
According to Higher Education Today, "the 21st century college student population is the most diverse in our nation’s history, characterized by the intersection of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, family composition, age, and economic status among others."
The people at our libraries and on our campuses look less and less like the "traditional" 18-21 year old residential college student. As a result, we need to ensure that our services and spaces meet the needs of these intersectional and traditionally underserved learners.
Join Library UX Chicago as we explore projects and strategies for meeting the diverse needs of learners including returning adults, first generation college students, and international students.
This event will include presentations from Chicago-area library colleagues along with opportunities to discuss ways you and your library are exploring issues of inclusivity and access. Light refreshments will be provided, and a happy hour will follow this event.
Architects Ann M. Beha and Steven G. Gerrard on the challenges of renovating historic buildings
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
6 to 7 pm
Ruggles Hall
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CONVERSATIONS AT THE NEWBERRY
They will explore the recent Newberry Library renovation—its purpose, principles, and design expression—to probe the issues of change and continuity for landmark buildings.
Download a PDF flyer for this event to post and distribute, and check out a research guide to collection materials about the Newberry’s history.
Ann Beha and Steven Gerrard have been colleagues for seventeen years. Their design work is marked by its strong historical, cultural, and educational content, and its advocacy for innovative contemporary design within landmark settings. For this reason, and its many design awards, ABA has been ranked as one of the nation’s 50 leading architectural practices for eight consecutive years. Based in Boston, ABA works nationally, and now, as architects for the American Embassy in Athens, internationally.
Ann’s projects include the University of Chicago Department of Economics and Becker Friedman Institute; the master plan for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History; the Center for the Humanities at Yale University; and special collections and exhibitions projects at the Newberry and the Grolier Club in New York City. Steve Gerrard’s design leadership is seen at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Shelburne Museum, the student life and performance center at the New England Conservatory of Music, Olin Library at Washington University in Saint Louis, and, currently, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where he leads design for a new exhibition and library building. His hands-on approach to design is marked by a love of drawing and a dedication to the craft of building. Steve was Principal Designer for the Newberry project.
Ann is a graduate of Wellesley and MIT and was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University; Steve a graduate of Lawrence Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan. Given Chicago’s architectural legacy, and the Newberry’s remarkable staff, mission, and collections, Ann and Steve view their work at the Newberry as a particular honor.
“Conversations at the Newberry” is generously sponsored by Sue and Melvin Gray.
TROLLEY STOP & ACTIVITY CENTER FOR NEAR NORTH DESIGN DAY
Art on Sedgwick & Marshall Field Gardens Community Center
1408 & 1406 North Sedgwick Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Join us in the community center and courtyard of the historic landmark building Marshall Field Garden Apartment Homes for an interactive architecture history activity. Built in 1929 by the Marshall Field estate to house employees of the department store, this privately owned builiding now provides homes to over 3,000 people in Old Town. The workshop and art activity is lead by the historic preservation improv and storytelling artist, Jeanne Lambin.
Then hop on the trolley for fun family activities at the Chicago History Museum, Sedgwick Sculpture Studio, DePaul Art Museum, Edgar Miller Legacy, and the Newberry Library. Explore iconic Chicago design objects and interiors including Radio Flyer wagon, 1950s street photography, Edgar Miller’s handmade homes, and much more.
Jeanne Lambin has performed, presented, and conducted interactive workshops and training in the US, Europe, and Asia. Her workshops have been described as “amazing,” “powerful,” and “great fun.” She is currently exploring how historic preservation, improv, and storytelling can help us collectively create better places to live, work, and play. A common thread linking all her work has been the desire to connect people to places, things, and causes that they care about and help them find the tools that they need to take meaningful action, and inspire change.
Saturday, November 10 | 1:00PM -4:00PM
Presented by institutions on Chicago’s Near North Side, including the Chicago History Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Edgar Miller Legacy, and the Newberry Library, this all-ages day of exploration and hands-on activities draws on iconic Chicago design objects and interiors as inspiration—the Radio Flyer wagon, 1950s street photography, World’s Columbian Exposition postcards, Edgar Miller’s handmade homes, and much more.
This event is free and open to the public. Free trolley transportation between venues is provided.
Artists/Designers/Citizens
Hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the 2018 Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Symposium, Artists/Designers/Citizens, takes place November 7–9, 2018, in Chicago, on the Art Institute of Chicago’s school/museum campus. Artists/Designers/Citizens positions the practice and study of art and design as central to the meaning, acts, and affinities known as citizenship.
Around the world, citizens have come together to correct historical and ongoing inequities through protesting, organizing, volunteering, standing for election, and standing up for one another with, as George Washington described it in his presidential farewell address, “jealous anxiety” for self-governance. In his own farewell address, Barack Obama built upon this notion, saying, “It falls on each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy…. Because for all our differences, we all share the same proud title: Citizen.” As the premier consortium of art and design educators in North America, AICAD’s member schools are well-positioned to reveal the diverse ways that creative practices can offer ways of seeing, intervening, and belonging as a citizen.
Artists/Designers/Citizens seeks to define values, share strategies, and set goals for being a citizen artist, a role that SAIC President Elissa Tenny says, “is not about possessing a particular nationality. Rather, being a citizen artist is about the interconnectedness of people and an acknowledgment that the work of the studio and classroom is not discrete from the world at large. Citizen artists recognize that their contributions to art, design, and scholarship can reflect society back to itself, withstand injustice and oppression, innovate new ways of being, and show humanity a path forward.”
The 2018 AICAD Symposium will see presentations from AICAD schools’ constituencies that reflect and develop the themes of Artists/Designers/Citizens. A special emphasis is placed on exploring how a range of practices—from the most solo, studio-based practices to the most community-based collaborations—contribute to notions of citizenship. Programming will include performances, field trips, interventions, and other experiences.
Artists/Designers/Citizens also serves as the North American component of Dimensions of Citizenship, an exhibition commissioned by SAIC and the University of Chicago for the US Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice.
African American Designers in Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of Race. The reception immediately follows the opening keynote for the related symposium, The Designs of African American Life, taking place November 2-3.
And while you’re in the neighborhood, head across the street to Expo 72 for a celebration the opening of Keep Moving: Designing Chicago’s Bicycle Culturepresented by the Design Museum of Chicago.
This event is free and open to the public.
Landscape architecture has a fraught relationship with gardening, despite having developed from it via landscape gardening, as it has sought professionalization by becoming more architectural. Raxworthy argues that as landscape architecture has become more representational it has lost touch with maintenance tools in gardening that allow for the optimization of the properties of change that landscape materials like plants have, such as growth. Here, Raxworthy presents an overview of his latest book, Overgrown: Practice between Landscape Architecture and Gardeningwhich was supported by a Graham Foundation grant in 2016 and published by MIT Press in 2018. The book advances a new model for plant form: "the viridic”—from the Latin for green, virent, and growth, viridesco—a landscape equivalent of the tectonic, which has been undertheorized in landscape architecture, and encourages the discipline to engage directly with the garden.
Julian Raxworthy, PhD, is an Australian landscape architect, and teaches in the Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Design programs at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was a recipient of a Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts grant for his book Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening, published by The MIT Press in Fall 2018.
Description
Imagine a world where everyone is a designer. The key aspects of design - empathy, user research, prototyping, and implementation - had become common practice to make social impact.
Would we need designers if everyone practiced design?
Join Design for America Alumni + Friends for a dynamic conversation delving into the changing role of design and how to maintain quality as the meaning of the discipline shifts. In this time of rapid change, panelists from diverse backgrounds will debate the obstacles of scaling design-thinking and implications for impact as the practice of design spreads.
Panelists
Gabrielle Lyon, Vice President Education and Experience at Chicago Architecture Center
Jason Kunesh, Design Director at the City of Chicago
Vernon Lockhart, Principal at Project Osmosis and Art on the Loose Inc.
Jennifer Brandel, CEO and Founder at Hearken
Special Thanks
Our gracious hosts; Savage Smyth is Chicago’s creative event venue where innovators across all fields can connect, create, and foster their own experiences.
Experience design by Rich Alapack of we all live here.
This event is part of Chicago Design Week, seven days worth of programming and events dedicated to a close examination of the fluid and evolving state of design and the role it plays in society.
Questions or concerns or special considerations for attending, contact lexi@designforamerica.com
