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10:30 am

Ideal Chicago creative placemaking [interactive workshop]

June 1, 2013 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
Free

Los Angeles designer, educator and S.I. exhibitor James Rojas has conducted creative placemaking workshops all over the country, and this edition in Chicago will similarly engage the collective community imagination to create an interactive diorama of the city—Chicago as it could be. Participants will be provided with thousands of small, colorful, vibrant, and tactile objects […]

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12:00 pm

Visionary Chicago walking tour [event]

June 1, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Meets in Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
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Free

Chicago-based scholar and architect Alexander Eisenschmidt has partnered with New York architecture firm Cheng+Snyder to produce Visionary Chicago at the Museum of the Phantom City, an iPhone app that reveals past utopian schemes for Chicago that were never built. Join Eisenschmidt, Cheng, and Snyder for a walking tour and demonstration of the app in downtown […]

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1:00 pm

Gallery walkthrough with S.I. curator and designers [event]

June 1, 2013 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Meets in Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
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Join the Spontaneous Interventions curator Cathy Lang Ho, exhibition designers John Hartmann and Lauren Crahan of Freecell, and graphic designer Patricia McShane of M-A-D in a walk-through of the exhibition to discuss the curatorial framework, projects, and exhibition design.

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2:00 pm

Skill-Exchange Show and Tell Session #1 [workshop]

June 1, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan galleries workshop/reading room, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
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S.I. participants from near and far--including Robyn Paprocki of Moving Design, Iker Gil of MAS Studio, and Douglas Burnham of envelope a+d--will gather and share objects that relate to their practices. In this sociable roundtable-style exchange, designers and artists will present lessons they have learned in their projects using the objects as a prompt, and […]

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3:30 pm

spacehacking // citytactics [presentation]

June 1, 2013 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
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Architect and scholar Nathan John will present from his research project spacehacking // citytactics, which collects the reflections of more than 30 artists, architects, and makers from around the world; the picture that emerges of urban interventions as they are used today challenges the dichotomy between the beautiful and the socially engaged. He will also […]

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4:00 pm

Center for Urban Pedagogy What is Affordable Housing? Chicago toolkit [workshop]

June 1, 2013 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center Garland Room, 1st floor, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
Free

S.I. exhibitor, the New York–based nonprofit Center for Urban Pedagogy collaborates with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify complex policy and planning issues. The Chicago affordable housing toolkit, six months in the making, is designed to help communities answer the all-important question of “Affordable to whom?” Interactive in nature, […]

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4:30 pm

Derelict Craft [presentation]

June 1, 2013 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room, 78 E Washington Street
Chicago,
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Free

John Preus is a Chicago-based artist, builder, and musician whose work explores forms of attachment, craft, art, and community life. Through his workshop Dilettante Studios, he designed and built the seats in the Spontaenous Interventions workshop/reading room using reclaimed material. His work has been exhibited at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, the Museum of Contemporary […]

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