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The Place Lab digest is a weekly round-up of pertinent news, opinion, investigations, and explorations of the arts, architecture, and city-building in Chicago and beyond.
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ETHICAL REDEVELOPMENT SALON
Principle #1: Repurpose + Re-propose
On June 28, 2016, On July 28, 2016, we hosted the first Ethical Redevelopment Salon Session. The session focused on Ethical Redevelopment Principle #1: Repurpose + Re-propose.
The Ethical Redevelopment Salon is a membership-based, social-learning network and peer-mentorship club. The Salon fosters relationships through cross-city networks and cross-sector innovation, and provides members with the knowledge and support needed to create meaningful community change. From July 2016 to April 2017, Place Lab will host monthly Salon Sessions focused on city-building methods that depart from profit-driven interventions.
View the thought boards produced in the first session.
Read the bios of Salon members.
Join the conversation on the Ethical Redevelopment Public Forum.
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BOARD UP: ST. LAURENCE
PROCESS + DESIGN
On Friday, July 15, 2016, the fourteen youth participants in our Board Up project began the process of creation. Following a design intensive the prior week at Stony Island Arts Bank, the youth turned their attention to bringing the boards to life.
In preparation for their work, the students participated in a day of design exploration. The youth visited the collections at the Stony Island Arts Bank to learn more about design, patterns, and artistic preparation. The youth participants then began the process of creation.
Their completed boards, works of art to adorn the windows of this property, will be revealed in August.
View the photo album here.
Read more about this project here.
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What Place Lab is digesting
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Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative wins AIA/HUD Award
Matthew Messner, The Architect's Newspaper
The project was initiated by the Rebuild Foundation, an organization run by Chicago artist Theaster Gates, and Chicago-based Brinshore Development. Originally a 1980’s Chicago Housing Authority project, the Dante Harper housing project, the DA+HC is now a public/private/non-profit collaboration...
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The school that became a theater that became a school
Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader
Like other APTP shows, Learning Curve is a collaboration between teenagers in the Albany Park neighborhood and adult directors who construct plays around social issues, based on interviews with people in their community...
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Sen. Durbin, Mayor Emanuel, Members of Illinois Delegation Announce $25 Million TIGER Grant for Garfield Green Line Gateway
eNews Park Forest
Common Edge sits down for a one-on-one for the first in a series of conversations with Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic of the New York Times.
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Transit-oriented development (TOD) anchors vibrant communities around transit stops.
CNT’s eTOD Social Impact Calculator
Jacky Grimshaw details the CNT's concept of Equitable Transit-Oriented Development, a development incentive system in which developers are able to build near transit hubs, significantly raising hte value of any development...
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VIDEOS: What We Design Designs Us
Curiosity
In the hermeneutic circle, we call on an item or idea designed by past generations, then encounter new needs or experiences that lead us to change it. This changed thing then forever changes the way we experience the world, and the cycle continues...
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Obama chooses historic Jackson Park as library site
Kathy Bergen, Blair Kamin, and Katherine Skiba, Chicago Tribune
The choice, which leaked out ahead of a formal announcement expected next week, elated some South Side residents but disappointed advocates of the other finalist site, Washington Park, whose surrounding neighborhood is pockmarked by vacant lots...
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Equitable TOD
Metropolitan Planning Council
The Metropolitan Planning Council's easy to follow breakdown of the recently updated Chicago TOD ordinance. Here you can find the TOD ordinance text, as well as a TOD calculator that offers residents, community groups and developers the ability to analyze the impact of development by neighborhood...
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A Very, Very Brief History of the Obama Library Site Selection
Whet Moster, Chicago Magazine
My instinct was that it would go in Jackson Park, because people like to build monuments near water, and…that’s it. Simple and naive, but monument-building can be simple and naive, which is why lakefront activists are always having to fight off new monuments that could be built anywhere in one of America’s most physically vast cities...
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