CRITIQUES

Archeworks Fall Semester Final Presentation and Review

Thursday, December 17

We invite you to join us for the Semester Final Presentation and Review at Archeworks. Students will discuss their projects and report on research and developments to date.

The evening’s schedule will be as follows:

6:00 - Little Village Pocket Parks
7:00 - The Mobile Food Collective

Refreshments to follow.

This event will be held at Archeworks and will be free and open to the public.

Mobile Food Collective

The Mobile Food Collective inspires a rethinking of our relationship to food, incorporating heritage, ownership, exchange, and connection into a new food culture. The group will present on its experiences sharing food in public spaces, designing products to inspire home growing, and building a local recipe archive. We are using these investigations to refine our prototype for a family of mobile structures, which will disperse these ideas to communities throughout Chicago. The project is leaving its conceptual phase as we establish community partnerships that will help bring our concepts to fruition.

Little Village Pocket Parks

There once were some Archeworkers, who came from far and wide to transform Chicago from top to bottom and side to side.  They noticed the city was full of vacant spaces,  these unhealthy pockets were ignored by passing faces. The group then decided “let’s make a change, from big to small, the solutions will range.”  Now the real question was, “Where do we start?”.  Not long after, they found a community with heart.  In Little Village they saw opportunities for transformation, knowing their absent spaces could hatch a sensation. They all worked together, fluttering their imaginations to see, all the wonderful things that their pockets could be.  They exclaimed to Chicago, “vacant space has possibility, there’s more than meets the eye, take care of your caterpillar, you can make it a butterfly.”

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