Monday / January 26, 2015 / 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The Calumet Collaborations: Making Many Small Plans
SAIC, Neiman Center, 37 South Wabash Avenue, 1st floor
The Calumet Collaborations is a collective project of a group of architectural schools to investigate an enormous swath of de-industrialized land on the south side of Chicago, with a supporting ecology that spans state boundaries from Illinois to Michigan. The project includes participants from The City College of New York, Illinois Institute of Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Harvard University. Using an inductive strategy based on the design of a series of highly-sustainable neighborhoods and founded on a rigorous investigation of existing environments, economies, ecologies, and social networks, the objective is to design a series of interventions – at a wide range of scales and operations – that can lead to futures for an area in search of dramatic transition. Our aim is not simply to produce a series of plans but to invent new styles for cooperative design and a vision for the region.
Speakers: Michael Sorkin (The City College of New York), Lee Bey (Art + Public Life, University of Chicago), D. Bradford Hunt, PhD (Roosevelt University); Roberta Feldman, PhD (UIC); Philip Enquist, FAIA (SOM); Martin Felsen, AIA (Urban Lab).
This program is the first presentation of the 2015 William H. Bronson & Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lectureship in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, hosted by the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The programs are free to the public, and registration is not required.
