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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]