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WHAT IS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT ON?
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This diagram demonstrates the difference between the promise and realization of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation, especially the loss (and loss of trust) residents endured. Robert Taylor Homes, Legends, and Stateway Gardens made up the highest concentration of public housing in the US, but similar outcomes can be found in other neighborhoods in Chicago and across the country.
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In the wake of the Plan for Transformation, and the shift from public housing as a physical location towards a dispersed network of voucher holders, it seems important for Chicago as a city to reflect on the repercussions of housing policy on the city’s social, economic, and environmental health. Six projects question our perceptions of housing and its impacts on the community, seeking to provoke unexpected responses and even relationships beyond our preconceptions. These projects were developed through an interrogation of texts, places, projects, people, and policy, relying on guest experts, oral histories, and direct engagement in the community. Through iteration, testing, and prototyping each project touched many, and grew in refinement. Archeworks and the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) partnered to explore potential approaches to the work of realizing a living museum that continues to serve the public housing community. This cannot be done in a vacuum, but addresses the city as a whole as an audience which must act to ensure the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
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How does one “win� in public housing? What kind of platforms could build the conditions necessary to foster connections and community? More action is needed: How can we incite action by building awareness? How can we resolve the many different stories told about public housing in a way that restores community? How would we think about creating a community for everyone? How can public housing residents be engaged as curators, builders, and designers of the museum? ARCHEWORKS
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HOW DO WE MAKE A HOUSING MUSEUM?
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COMMON GROUND How does one “win” in public housing?
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COMMON GROUND
“For those without personal experience with public housing, Common Ground is a sink- or-swim system to traverse, at a knowledge point often common with first-time public housing seekers. Each player engages from an authentic position and identity.” The Common Ground board game aims to challenge the narrative of public housing by using play as a didactic tool for social empathy. The game focuses on understanding and communicating the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Housing Voucher Process and CHA system. Game play is meant to shed light on the current narrative, build awareness and engage audiences to become more involved in shaping the future of public housing. Common Ground takes the form a board game because games appeal to a broad audience—they can also be an educational tool, a site for making what is not easily deciphered in everyday life better understood through an approachable medium. The objective of Common Ground, like most games, is ostensibly to “win” – presumably by “obtaining housing” by going through CHA’s housing system. However the game also intends to simulating the difficult, and often
conflicting choices residents have to make, and players must deeply consider what it means to “win.” The path of the game is straightforward, 8 clear steps, but along the way there are also many unpredictable factors that play into the game. Throughout play, players must navigate scenarios paralleling that of CHA residents. In those moments, they must barter and strategize while dealing with mixed emotions, making each decision and quest unique. Appropriately so, time is a major factor. The amount of time we spend doing something or are part of some process can really build emotion, sometime both negative (frustration) and positive (determination). Players can calculate how long it takes them to “obtain housing,” but the element of competition actually is not felt towards the other player but with the game. ARCHEWORKS
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What kind of platforms could build the conditions necessary to foster connections & community?
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“Neighborhood-focused hangouts travel to the NPHM, contributing to the national dialogue around public housing.”
The Hangout departs from a traditional museum experience (reading, looking, listening) to a program-based activation: a series of events to feature the experiences and values of public housing residents through art, and facilitate the creation of larger local social networks. The art created and shared at the local level can be further curated by NPHM to continue the conversation about the public housing experience at a city and national level. Our primary inspiration to highlight resident stories and amplify social networks is through the common activity of “hanging out”. Gettogethers with friends, block parties, family holidays and picnics are periodic and organic gatherings with a simple yet meaningful purpose: enjoy each other’s company, connect
through conversations, and build relationships. Hangout Chicago is a platform for community gatherings that uses cultural and art activities to engage, meet, share and discuss personal concepts of home. The project asks the question: How can public housing residents be engaged as curators, builders, and designers of the museum? Connect: Hangouts bring together public housing residents,local artists, and other community members to collaborate and share their experiences of home through art projects and activities. Build: Art projects are shared locally, and each event is both a showcase and dialogue about home experiences among public housing residents and their neighbors.
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#ADDRESS HOME More action is needed: How can we incite action by building awareness?
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#ADDRESSHOME
“Through in–person and virtual platforms, AddressHome conveys the need for a public response to housing insecurity, and prompts people to take small steps in their lives to create a more equitable city.” AddressHome draws attention to the serious challenges of housing insecurity in Chicago and provides tools for action and education. Everyday, neighbors in our city are experiencing eviction, foreclosure and homelessness. Chicago is becoming increasingly unaffordable for low-wealth individuals and families who are doubling-up in crowded apartments and working multiple jobs to afford rent. We still have an unfulfilled political promise to replace public housing units demolished during CHA’s Plan for Transformation and the average waiting list for rent vouchers is eight years. Many of these housing challenges lie “under the radar”except for those experiencing themand have not been widely discussed in public discourse.
visible, representing shocking statistics about the prevalence of eviction, rent burden, and affordable/ public housing scarcity in shareable postcard form. A rotating, eye– catching and interactive display at the future National Public Housing Museum will prompt visitors to take a postcard and share reflections from their visit with others. AddressHome provides action–steps to follow a museum visit: educate others on this topic (by mail and with #AddressHome)and advocate for housing justice. The postcards link to a website (addresshomesite. wordpress.com) with informational resources (books, articles, documentaries and other sites) and links to local, state and national affordable housing campaigns.
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How can we resolve the many different stories told about public housing in a way that restores community?
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“When do you feel most at home?”
The key is a participatory object that engages people to create something together. The goal is to humanize the abstract idea of public housing, bring a diverse audience to the National Public Housing Museum, and change perspectives through engagement. Asking people to write anonymous answers to different types of questions led us to understand that open-ended question tied to emotion draw the most interesting, diverse, and narrative responses. What can we ask to humanize the generalized and often negative perceptions of public housing throughout the city? We chose the question “When do you feel most at home?” for our research at the 61st Street Farmer’s Market. People were generally enthusiastic to fill out and return tagged keys with their answer, and then view the display of other’s responses. They also were curious about the museum. How can we scale
this process to get people from around the city to create something together at the National Public Housing Museum? We see this as a design for a framework that enables people to create something together, built upon voices from around the city. Ultimately, the keys are invitations to bring people together at the National Public Housing Museum to share their voice in collaboration with others. Can this process be used at other locations, with other questions? We will empower others to use this process to learn about neighbors and bring people together by publishing the components as opensource design elements. We hope to adapt the process to other applications which encourage people to create participatory objects around the city. Can our diverse city move beyond established boundaries and change antiquated perceptions? ARCHEWORKS
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“We are testing the thesis that just having a seat isn’t enough. We have to question and understand the equity that we begin with.” We sought to foster dialogue across boundaries through organized building. Can we have conversations? Can we have serious conversations? Can we have serious conversations about public housing? Our boundaries (elected and imposed) prevent us from connecting with each other, so we set out to disrupt the lack of conversation in a segregated city by going to where people already are. During two workshops with public housing residents we heard there were not enough opportunities for people to connect face-to-face. This creates misconceptions about living in public housing that the youth group wished to overcome. They reiterated there is not enough mobility between groups. Workshop participants identified social media and public art events as ways to captivate people and share their voices. We partnered with the 61st Street Farmers Market on the border of Hyde Park & Woodlawn. Our two-
person bench seats people facing each other to inspire conversations. We attracted people by personally inviting them to sit down with members from our team and in a few instances seated two strangers from the market. We built a table to place the racial dot map of Chicago between the bench seats. This map provides a visualization of racial diversity in every neighborhood, displaying one dot for each person residing in the United States. It depicts Chicago as one of the most obviously segregated cities. We aimed to provoke conversation about the behaviors and attitudes that create this condition. We refined the bench into collapsible chairs which are easily packed to visit happening locations and disconnected communities and reassembled by conversation partners to physically set the table for a memorable experience. ARCHEWORKS
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How can public housing residents be engaged as curators, builders, and designers of the museum?
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“We need a space where we can learn from each other�
The guide empowers entrepreneurs to be both experts and learners, identifying what they and their community needs, informing the National Public Housing Museum business accelerator space and programming, where Section 3 entrepreneurs will build skills. There is no lack of evidence of the impact of housing policy: ask the experts who live in or manage affordable housing. Like housing itself, this knowledge is concentrated in communities selected for disinvestment. How can the dialog of public housing, be centered around residents, their businesses, within a museum? By empowering entrepreneurs to be experts and learners. Small business is an untold story of public housing where residents, with very little capital, provide for community needs. If the museum will accelerate impact, why not accelerate the museum?
+ Commit to local engagement During the second workshop, listening to Section 3 Entrepreneurs, we identified three design principles: + Be both a learner and an expert + No component serves just one purpose + We come together to connect As well as five spatial requirements: + Honor the whole community + Provide privacy and confidentiality + Respect professionalism in many forms + Flexibility is a core value + Sustainable innovation requires change In partnership with the NPHM, Open Hours (expert-to-expert consultations) sessions are conducted on an ongoing basis to build the informal pop up accelerator into a community as the NPHM space is under construction.
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WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
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Following a year of robust inquiry and problem-solving, Archeworks and the National Public Housing Museum look forward to future work - the realization of a brick and mortar museum, testing of open hours interventions as a service to museum stakeholders, and preparation for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. This short collection of work is intended as a reference for the information and impact we have accomplished together already as we look forward to future collaboration. While these six projects demonstrate many opportunities for a museum to manifest, each will need to find its place in the ongoing work of the NPHM. Currently, there is interest in manufacturing and distributing the Common Ground board game. The Share table and chair set is regularly used by a local facilitator, and production for distribution is under consideration. The Guidebook is undergoing testing and refinement through “Open Hours,� opportunities for Section 3 entrepreneurs to meet directly with consultants to create action plans (and networks) to build their businesses. The Chicago Complex, a collaboration between the University of Arkansas, UNC Charlotte, and Archeworks, reinterpreted this inquiry as installation art including Musical Chairs and Curtain Call. These pieces will be exhibited at Altgeld Gardens as a part of the Architecture Biennial and ongoing engagement with public housing as it exists and lives today. We continue this work, inviting further collaboration and discourse, with further exhibits during the Chicago Architecture Biennal in October.
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WHO DID WE TALK TO?
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FACILITATORS ANDREW BALSTER
Andrew is a Chicago-based leader operating in the fields of architecture, urbanism, public policy, sociology, and academia. Working closely with influential leaders in the public and private sector, ranging from architects and planners to government officials and social activists, he creates research platforms with universities to explore many forms of cultural production. In practice, Andrew has worked on projects that are broad in typology and scale - ranging from small civic centers to super-tall towers to entire urban districts. Andrew was a Senior Designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago on several award-winning projects located all over the globe. He received an MScAAD and an MArch w/distinction from the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Andrew joined Archeworks as Executive Director in February 2015.
PAOLA AGUIRRE
Paola is founder of Borderless Studio, an urban design practice based in Chicago; she has been trained as an architect and urban designer, and her professional experience includes working with government, universities and architecture/ urban design offices both in Mexico and the United States: University of Chicago’s Place Lab, City Design Practice at SOM (Chicago), New York University’s Office of Strategic Assessment, Planning & Design, and the Municipal Institute of Planning of Chihuahua. Paola’s transnational background and strong collaborative approach focus her research and design practice on multidisciplinary exchange and urban systems integration. Paola received her Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard School of Design; she is also founder of The Borderless Workshop, a collaborative platform focused on rethinking the US-Mexico border region.
NATASHA KROL
Natasha works on increasing economic empowerment through collaborative innovation across sectors. She is the Managing Director of the Stanford College Transition Collaborative. Natasha previously worked at McKinsey and as the Director of Chicago’s Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs, with organizations in the US, Africa, and Asia. Natasha is a Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leader and was a Chicago Mayoral Fellow. Natasha holds a Bachelors of Arts in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Michigan.
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MONICA CHADHA
Monica Chadha is a licensed architect and educator who has been practicing for over 20 years. Based in Chicago, she is the Founder of Civic Projects LLC, which focuses on the design, construction and development of community driven projects. Combining design with economic drivers such as pop-up retail and business incubation she provides services that encompass a holistic approach to development in underserved neighborhoods. She served as the Founding Director of Impact Detroit. At both Studio Gang Architects and Ross Barney Architects, Monica has been responsible for the design and team leadership of several award-winning buildings. Monica has architecture degrees from the University of Waterloo in Canada and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has presented her work internationally and has been widely published. In 2010 the Design Futures Council recognized her as an Emerging Leader.
MARIA BERGH
Maria holds a BS and Masters of Architecture as well as a Masters of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati. While a student she worked for ZGF, NBBJ, Anderson Architects, Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders, and the Cincinnati Community Design Center. Upon graduation she became a bcFELLOW at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, and then helped grow the Dallas office of Boulder Associates Architects, a sustainable healthcare design practice. She has been involved in the Open Architecture Collaborative, and is currently helping found JustDesign, an interdisciplinary design cooperative in the public interest. Maria is curious, committed, and creative. She allies herself with the Catholic Worker Movement, and lives and works in Su Casa, a shelter for bilingual families.
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educator geographer CHARLIE &BARLOW educator, geographer, investigator Lecturer in Public Policy LECTURER IN PUBLIC POLICY AND GEOGRAPHY & and Geography & CO-INVESTIGATOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Co-investigator, The University of Chicago Charlie is a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (University of Cambridge), and has specialized in public housing and vibrancy. His PhD work draws from his experience living in mixed-income housing (the Sullivan Station Apartments) and working with public housing resident activists issues. The report was presented to architect, the CHA and has become a touchpoint for discussion Lead Manager aboutDesign the mixed-use portion of the site. Charlie is from the Isle of Man, and captured some of of originally Place Lab his experiences at the Sullivan Station Apartments in his blog, Brit on the Block.
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an edge for the commons. In ten years of study and practice (including Boulder Associates Architects, [bc] Workshop, NBBJ, ZGF). Maria finds herself in the walls of architecture, between the profession and the people it serves; she currently embraces this role as she practices including the excluded.
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TYLER BROWNdesigner architectural Senior Associate Senior Associate, Landon LANDON BONE BAKER ARCHITECTS Bone Baker Architects
With over a decade of professional experience working for architecture and planning offices, public agencies, and in construction, Tyler has developed a particular interest the relationship between buildings and cities. He was involved in several phases of the Legends South CHARLIE BARLOW and Westhaven Park HOPE VI projects and is currently educator, geographer, investigator working on the redevelopment of the former Cabriniphotographer, writer LECTURER IN PUBLIC POLICY AND GEOGRAPHY & Green public housing site, Parkside of Old Town. Tyler’s CO-INVESTIGATOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO work with the firm explores how a rich and sustainable built environment can contribute to the social, economic, cultural health of a community. Charlie is a Doctorand of Philosophy in Geography (University of Cambridge), and has specialized in public housing and vibrancy. PhD work draws from his ISISHis FERGUSON experience living in mixed-income SullivanStrategy Associate Director,housing City And(the Community Station Apartments) and working with public housing PLACE LAB, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO resident activists issues. The report was presented to the CHA and has become touchpointexperience for discussion Isis has a significant in managing public cultural social about the mixed-use portionworker, of the Charlie isengagement in Chicago. programming andsite. community originally from justice theCurrently, Isle of activist Man, and captured some of her academic and at Place Lab, she translates his experiences at the Sullivan Station Apartments in hisand implementation activist background into City the creation Associate Director, & blog, Brit on the Block. of artists-led, culture-focused urban ethical Community Place redevelopmentStrategy, strategies. She develops process, language, MARIA BERGHLab, of Chicago and University narrative, and directs projects that exist at the unique freelance designer and facilitator nexus of community development, urban planning, and the expanded art and space practice of Theaster Gates. Maria is interested on how everyday people construct community from experiences that become memories JOYCE FERNANDES and then stories. These stories bring some together, Executive Director divide others, and give our culture structure. Just so, cultural worker, educator, ARCHI-TREASURES a facade protects some, excludes others, and creates & visual artist an edge for the commons. In ten years of study and Joyce’s career encompasses extensive experience in arts practice (including Boulder Associates Architects, [bc] Executive Director, administration, lecturing and teaching, critical writing, Workshop, NBBJ, ZGF). Maria finds herself in the walls Archi-treasures and visual arts practice. Her primary focus has been of architecture, between the profession and the people it to develop innovative community arts practice, and to serves; she currently embraces this role as she practices facilitate strong community partnerships by recognizing including the excluded. and honoring the tremendous assets and resources that are available in all communities by designing creative TYLER BROWN projects that leverage and complement those assets.
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HOW DID WE DESIGN IT?
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“THE NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM (NPHM) IS A PLACE OF STORIES THAT MINE THE VASTLY COMPLEX HISTORY OF PUBLIC AND PUBLICLY SUBSIDIZED HOUSING IN AMERICA.” -NPHM Website Archeworks partnered with the NPHM to explore the social, psychological and emotional dimensions of public housing and related issues concerning urban disinvestment, housing and social justice. Working with objects and space, place and policy, and collaborating with public housing residents, the Archeworks team designed tools to connect people, foster conversations and generate awareness about the legacy of public housing and housing insecurity. The project will contribute to NPHM’s collections and exhibitions, and will be showcased in the Museum’s preview phase opening during the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Founded in 1994 by internationally known architect Stanley Tigerman, FAIA and award winning designer Eva Maddox, FIIDA, Archeworks is a Chicago-based design lab and educator dedicated to using design as an agent of change in the public interest. Over the past 23 years, we have collaborated with over 80
partners and completed more than 80 design projects in communities throughout Chicago. Past partners include community organizations, urban farms, advocacy groups, healthcare organizations, schools, municipalities, and cultural institutions. Our collaborative design projects have addressed subjects ranging from universal design and accessibility to community health, local food systems, and sustainable land use. Since our founding, Archeworks has offered a postgraduate certificate focused on the skills, techniques and implementation of Public Interest Design: identifying opportunity, engaging a collective audience, convincing and testing ideas, and making design an agent of change. Through a vast network of industry experts, civic leaders, award winning practitioners and successful social entrepreneurs, students are given the tools and access to make a difference in the world, and the accountability to do so.
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Archeworks’ Postgraduate Certificate in Public Interest Design is a multidisciplinary design studio program giving students the opportunity to collaborate with leaders in the public and private sector, ranging from global leaders in practice to the local government to the local community, to address real world problems through an innovative design project. The certificate program builds core competencies inherent to successful designers and encompasses field-based research, participatory design that engages stakeholders, and rigorous experimentation and prototyping to refine concepts, proposals and interventions. Students gain theoretical and practical experience in socially responsible design while making an impact in urban communities. Our faculty of leading designers, urbanists, artists, and policymakers from Chicago and beyond provide students with creative guidance and personal mentoring.
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Fall: September 26 - December 13, 2016 Spring: February 28 - May 31, 2017 Weeks 1-3 background research, history, team building Weeks 4-6 initial concepts & content Weeks 7-9 develop concepts Weeks 10-12 refine and present The Certificate Program is guided by Archeworks’ approach to Public Interest Design: identifying opportunity, engaging a collective audience, convincing and testing ideas, and making design an agent of change.
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IDENTIFY Identify the problem and define the design challenge. Explore social, cultural and environmental problems that are multifaceted and complex, embody competing interests and institutionalized ways of thinking, and disproportionately affect disadvantaged members of society. Consider the ethical dimensions of design by exploring the research and design process in relation to personal values, the context of the problem, interest of stakeholders and decision makers, and larger societal issues. ENGAGE Engage stakeholders, decision makers and the wider public to understand the relationship of ideas to meaningful impact through collective action. Explore the responsibility of design to engage stakeholders at all levels, facilitate dialogue and encourage meaningful ownership, so that strategies are actionable and public interest translates into public impact. Achieve meaningful engagement and impact through methods of public discourse, group interaction and intentional collaboration in support of mutually beneficial agendas.
CONVINCE Develop and test ideas against real world constraints and opportunities, finding strategies towards realization and implementation. Supported by deep research into the social and ethical dimensions of the design problem, produce generative insights and develop design solutions to evaluate within an iterative process. Consider messaging, representation and presentation to develop a coherent project narrative and convey the intent of design proposals to partners, stakeholders and allies. MAKE Learn design and prototyping skills to create mockups and explore bringing ideas to realization. Refine creative thinking styles, strategies and methods for developing a design concept and translating it into an iterative material process. Develop skill working directly with material to advance a design agenda and use human-centered design to create change.
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WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE?
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HISTORY, PRESERVATION, ACTIVISM “In defense of the public,” & “Phantoms playing double dutch,” by Eve Ewing The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic Browse CHA website and the NPHM website DESIGN RESEARCH & STORYTELLING Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2016) High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing by Audrey Petty (2013) gravity tank WorkDifferently PLANNING WITH COMMUNITIES Voices from Cabrini (1999), 70 ACRES (2014) by Ronit Bezalel A Ladder of Citizen Participation, Sherry R. Arnstein (1969) Whitney Young Speech to the AIA (1968) NPHM Draft Historic Structure Report to the IHPA RESEARCH AND METHODS: UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITIES Contested Space: Design Principles and Regulatory Regimes in Mixed-Income Communities Replacing Public Housing Complexes in Chicago, Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph Building Vibrant Communities Report, Chicago Policy Research Team Public Policy Studies in the College, The University of Chicago, 2016 CONNECTING COMMUNITIES WITH DESIGN Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, Bradford Hunt (2009) The Goldberg Variation: High-rise public housing that works, Maya Dukmasova (10/08/2016) CURATORIAL PRACTICE ‘Color(ed) Theory Series’ by Amanda Williams Ethical Redevelopment, Place Lab Radioactive: An interview with Maria Gaspar, Tempestt Hazel Explore Tempestt Hazel’s website and Sixty Inches from Center 2017
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LITERATURE Out of the Loop - Public Housing: Contested Ground, VAF, Virginia B. Price (2015) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America, (Beryl Satter 2010) The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Moore In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis by Peter Marcuse and David Madden A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home by Laura Gottesdiener, 2013 ARTS + CULTURE + ACTIVISM ‘Ghost House’ by Rachel Whiteread ‘Wall Hunters’ in Baltimore PARK:96 ACRES, Chicago, by Maria Gaspar Waking Up by Sam Harris, Racism and Violence in America: A conversation with Glenn C. Loury OTHER Chicago’s Million Dollar Blocks, an interactive map showing spending on incarceration for every block in the City of Chicago (Dr. Daniel Cooper and Dr. Ryan LugaliaHollon with DataMade) Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960) Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, Bradford Hunt A Brief History of Public Housing, JA Stoloff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Contested Space: Design Principles and Regulatory Regimes in Mixed-Income Communities Replacing Public Housing Complexes in Chicago, Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate, New York, University of Columbia Ethical Redevelopment, by Placelab
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OTHER (CONTINUED) The Artist Loft: Affordable Housing for White People by Alana Semuels in the Atlantic “Here’s How the Federal Government Made the Maps that Crippled Black Neighborhoods” by Henry Grabar for Slate “Chicago to build combined mixed-income housing and libraries” by Mike Messner for ArchPaper White House Housing Development Toolkit Center for Urban Pedagogy guide: What is Affordable Housing? Chicago Edition Pandemonium, Janet Cardif and George Bures Miller (2005) Moving Design: House of Cards (for NPHM) by 3st Mejay Gula, architect and construction manager, Place Lab Lee Bey, writer, architecture critic, photographer Karen Kubey, Board Member, Institute for Public Architecture, New York City Jennifer Parks, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity Chicago Brinshore Development + Rebuild Foundation, Dorchester Arts + Collaborative Housing The cost of affordable housing: does it pencil out? Urban Institute Antieviction Mapping Project (Bay Area) and Land of Opportunity project Community Land Trust video (Gaining Ground) The Affordable Housing GAP Analysis 2016 Chicago renters back “ROOTS” as long term solution to affordable housing (Truth out) Carmelo Barbaro, Executive Director, UChicago Urban Labs: Poverty Ruth Coffman, Executive Director, UChicago Urban Labs: Health Hull-House Museum community co-curation/oral history and counter-mapping International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Mapping Inequality, University of Richmond American Misfortune: Poverty Risk Calculator
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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION BLOG: https://socialconstructionblog.tumblr.com/
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