Friday, September 13th
Various sites across Chicago, all day

Activation at various sites and pop-up events across Chicago. Participating community partners will demonstrate their projects and engage audiences as participants.

Highlights include multiple events at the Chicago History Museum, including:

• a workshop with Shannon Downey of Badass Cross Stitch
• tours of the Designing for Change: Chicago Protest Art of the 1960s–70s exhibition.
  Location: Lincoln Park
• Designing Belonging conversation featuring grand-scale puppet project designed by Grace Needlman with Redline Service artists.
  Location: North Lawndale
• Community Readings and Workshop, part of Unearthing Layers, Connecting Stories: Reflections on Environmental Justice in Everyday Life.
  Location: Archer Heights

Note: Transportation will not be provided between sites. We ask that all attendees make their own transportation arrangements.

Saturday, September 14th
9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Institute of Design at Illinois Tech

Panels:

• How To Share Your Power: A Conversation About Co-Design
  Sara Cantor | Greater Good StudioDespite consensus on the need to redistribute power for equity, it’s rarely practiced. This panel with local non-profit leaders explores co-design frameworks, barriers, and strategies for shifting power.
• Building Collaborative Community Processes
  William Estrada,  Ashley Williams, Kaitlyn Stancy, and Emily Essling
  Just Transition Northwest IndianaPanelists will share insights from The Visioning Project, which uses art workshops and visionary activities to imagine a Just Transition for the region. Join us to discuss how communities can move toward a regenerative, pollution-free future.

Workshops:

• MAPPED: Making a People’s Pathway for Engaging Design
  Emma Jasinski & Clio Lyons | Design Trust ChicagoContribute to building a collaborative design library featuring a transparent, organized index of Chicago’s community design projects.
• Walking the Walk: Define Your Values, Design Your Practice
  Nermin Moufti & Kristin Lueke | Field of PracticeDiscover what it means to design for change in this interactive session. Reflect on your creative journey, explore shared values, and discuss the challenges and rewards of intentional practice.

   

• Generating Community Processes through Participatory Design
  Lucía Garcés Dávila, MAIn this workshop, participants will explore a generative theme through visual dialogue, creating a shared language to address cultural, social, and environmental practices.

Conversations:

• ¡Anímate!: Values, Approaches, and Contexts in a Community-Based Arts Practice
  Andrés Lemus-Spont & Marya Spont-Lemus | ¡Anímate! StudioSince 2015, ¡Anímate! Studio has led free public workshops in 50+ South and Southwest Side neighborhoods. In this informal talkback, Andrés and Marya reflect on their approach of using art and design to explore values and build community power.

• Exploring New Forms of Being
  Rafa Robles | DuoRafa will discuss his design career trajectory, the formation of his studio and the methodologies behind it, and a current project showcasing how Duo is creating new types of built environment interventions that benefit society.