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SUMMARY:Ideal Chicago creative placemaking [interactive workshop]
DESCRIPTION: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 to place on a model of downtown Chicago. Open to people of all ages\, participants are invited to reflect on\, explore\, experiment\, and ultimately craft their ideal city. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/ideal-chicago-creative-placemaking-interactive-workshop
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
CATEGORIES:Placemaking
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T133000
DTSTAMP:20260509T065822
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SUMMARY:Visionary Chicago walking tour [event]
DESCRIPTION: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 Chicago\, and visit sites of unbuilt plans by architects such as Aldof Loos\, Hans Hollein\, and Greg Lynn\, to name a few. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/visionary-chicago-walking-tour-event
LOCATION:Meets in Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T140000
DTSTAMP:20260509T065823
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SUMMARY:Gallery walkthrough with S.I. curator and designers [event]
DESCRIPTION: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. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/gallery-walkthrough-with-s-i-curator-and-designers-event
LOCATION:Meets in Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T150000
DTSTAMP:20260509T065823
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SUMMARY:Skill-Exchange Show and Tell Session #1 [workshop]
DESCRIPTION: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 the public is invited to mingle with the participants and ask questions. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/skill-exchange-show-and-tell-session-1-workshop
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center\, Michigan galleries workshop/reading room\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T163000
DTSTAMP:20260509T065823
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SUMMARY:spacehacking // citytactics [presentation]
DESCRIPTION: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 talk about the potential of digital design and fabrication tools to further elide this boundary. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/spacehacking-citytactics-presentation
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T065823
CREATED:20130528T021255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130528T023912Z
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SUMMARY:Center for Urban Pedagogy What is Affordable Housing? Chicago toolkit [workshop]
DESCRIPTION: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\, this workshop presents a series of hands-on activities that break down affordable housing policy into accessible visual illustrations. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/center-for-urban-pedagogy-what-is-affordable-housing-chicago-toolkit-workshop
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center Garland Room\, 1st floor\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires:20130601T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T065823
CREATED:20130528T015742Z
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SUMMARY:Derelict Craft [presentation]
DESCRIPTION: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 Art\, Chicago\, the Heilbronn Kunstverein-Germany\, the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft\, the Hyde Park Art Center\, and the Smart Museum of Art\, Chicago. He will speak about the relationships between art\, design\, and fabrication in his work. \n
URL:http://www.spontaneousinterventions.org/calendar-event/derelict-craft
LOCATION:Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Galleries workshop/reading room\, 78 E Washington Street\, Chicago
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