DESIGN ING EXPER IENCE DESIGN FORECAST LIVE 2017
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WHAT MAKES CHICAGO LIVABLE?
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We brought together leaders, designers, innovators, and planners for a conversation on designing liveable cities for all. The dialogue—deep and inspired—reinforced the collective impact that is possible when we come together to share, learn, and spark new thinking. Thank you to each panelist and attendee for the inspiring, thought-provoking experience and for adding your voice to the complex pursuit of a brilliant future for our organizations, communities, and neighbors. In this book, we share with you some of the big ideas that emerged. It’s one chapter in the bigger story that we will continue to accomplish together. Thank you,
Nila R. Leiserowitz FASID, IIDA Regional Managing Principal
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Sarah Bader IIDA, LEED-AP Managing Director
Grant Uhlir AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Managing Director
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WHY WE TALK ABOUT CITIES.
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“For the first time in human history there are more people that are living in cities than not, and the issues we are discussing here in this provocative conversation are gamechangers across the US and around the world.”
Andy Cohen Co-CEO
“If you look at the work we do as a firm, it amounts to the design of a city the size of San Francisco—every year. We understand the importance of our commitment to cities, and see ourselves as a connector for the clients and the communities involvedin the important work we’ve discussed in this forum.”
Diane Hoskins Co-CEO
“It is remarkable to be reminded of the tremendous capacity for impact that we each carry. Different industries and diverse focus are brought together by a shared vision for the city we love and the future we will help create.”
Nila R. Leiserowitz Regional Managing Principal
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“We understand that design can be transformative, and we also know that it takes strong collaborators to successfully address complicated challenges. Bringing together this tremendous panel, and each of you in the room this morning, is an extension of our belief that it takes all of us working together to create a better world.”
Sarah Bader Managing Director
“Cities act as a catalyst in cultivating an interactive and supportive environment, enriching the human experience, and providing a cultural connection and legacy that extends benefits from attracting today’s top talent to providing opportunities for our future generations. Architects, designers, planners, and all of us as citizens, have a social responsibility to continue to ‘Do Good’ in and for our cities.” Grant Uhlir Managing Director
WE ASKED EACH OF OUR PANELISTS,
“WHAT DO YOU SEE IN CITIES?” 6
Shradha Agarwal
Maurice Cox
“In cities, we have the priority of integration. Integrating work and life, business and community, profit and nonprofit, day and night, giving and taking. It’s stepping out the door and living an entire life in a community of diverse perspectives—and integrating these diversities.”
“I really only know cities, and so they have always just been the way that things are. It’s where you experience a mix of people, cultures, and nationalities passing on the sidewalk—all at once and every second of each day. So many people are growing up in the suburbs— where you choose to go ‘into the city’ and where distance creates inherent separation. We are strong in our cities and that is easy to take for granted.”
President and Co-Founder Outcome Health
Director of Planning City of Detroit
David Doig
Theaster Gates
Molly Wallace
“The city is always changing and there is an underlying energy in the diversity and culture that we cannot celebrate enough. I’ve lived in the city for 35 years, and I still wake up and ask, ‘What am I going to discover today?’”
“In some ways we can think about cities as raw material that is mineral rich, and we are a part of all of these varying ingredients. The density—or lack of density—sparks the imagination and becomes an amazing playground where the challenges and solvable problems of our cities are just waiting for interesting solutions.”
“The vibrancy and energy that the city provides, the connections to other companies, and the diversity of people inspires us as a company to create better products, to understand our consumers better, to be better people, and give back to the cities where we work and play.”
President CNI Group
American social practice installation artist
Director of Experiential Marketing Wilson
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BIG IDEAS
FOR DESIGNING AND INFLUENCING LIVABLE CITIES FOR ALL Our cities are multi-dimensional places. We are reimagining them around the intersections of people and experiences that make them vibrant.
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Listen. Then Build. Making decisions as a collective empowers individuals to activate vision.
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WHAT MAKES CHICAGO LIVABLE?
“People say, ‘You’re a community developer, so how are you different than a typical real estate developer?’ We are different in that we start our process with engaging the community. That is the beginning of the plan —listen to the people, first.”
“As planners, it is easy to come in with our ideas about what needs to happen, and we've got our great principles and policies and we just expect the community to love it. It might seem like too high an expectation, but we must listen if we want the support needed to advance.”
“There is tremendous opportunity for innovation if we listen to the strata of users in our city.”
David Doig
Maurice Cox
Theaster Gates
President CNI Group
Director of Planning City of Detroit
American social practice installation artist
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Chicago Plumbers Local 130 Training Facility Chicago Plumbers Local 130 is built by the members for the members. A building for the City of Chicago and for the future of skilled labor — creating jobs in the city and paving the way for the future by providing training for thousands of apprentices and journeymen.
Fulton West Chicago
Built upon a “ruin� from the dot-com bust, this building gives voice to what once was while continuing the bigger story of the Fulton Market Neighborhood.
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It Takes a Diverse Village. Diversity of thought, diversity in backgrounds and knowledge, diversity in learning and teaching styles. What you see is only the tip of the iceberg. Look around you then look beyond that to get the most out of your teams and stakeholders.
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“Cities are an ecosystem—an incubator for incentives, policies, and grassroots efforts that bring people together and align visions —where the business community and the public sector meet to build a common future.”
“I find that my ideas are not always the precious ones at the table. I need to listen to both the 25-year-old and the 90-year-old, then ask if I can create a space for both?”
“It may be the impatience of youth, but young people bring a sense of social urgency. They cannot wait until they’ve been educated to begin making a difference, and they feel compelled to be a part of change.”
Shradha Agarwal
Theaster Gates
Maurice Cox
President and Co-Founder Outcome Health
American social practice installation artist
Director of Planning City of Detroit
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Detroit Fifty Chicago
An imaginative roster of ideas to reimagine the cityscape with concepts ranging from illuminating iconic structures at night to planting 10 Million trees. A diverse set of minds came together to think of new ways to recreate and restore a great city.
Town Hall Apartments Chicago
Focused on three scales of influence: environment, neighborhood, and personal well-being, the community (largely underserved LGBT seniors) was invited to participate in visioning session and research. The result is a preserved and renovated historic building that retains the residents’ connection to their neighborhood while inviting the community in.
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Broad networks. Bigger platforms. New ways of working together are the new normal. Push boundaries outside of established groups, embrace the capacity for deeper impact, and create teams from every angle to find the solution.
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“The expectations of the workplace “I think about the number of have changed, because work meetings to launch a really has changed. Creativity and ambitious quarter-square-mile connections, living and working neighborhood project in Detroit. We need a community developer. in the same place, building community and integrating it all We need philanthropy. We need into one environment is the new the city working with residents. challenge. This is not just sitting We need the community itself. at a desk and typing anymore.” After 40 community meetings in 12 months, a core group of 40 leaders has emerged. That core is our base and they now know what it will take to make this idea happen.”
“Corporations seem to thrive when they look further abroad, further afar to broader networks to find complementary partners to make great things happen.”
Theaster Gates
Shradha Agarwal
Maurice Cox
American social practice installation artist
President and Co-Founder Outcome Health
Director of Planning City of Detroit
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2407 University Mixed Use Master Plan Chicago
Creating a partnership between public university research and private equity unlike any other in the world, 2407 University pairs industry giants with a large university and cutting-edge startups. The collaborative approach allows for more powerful and dynamic incubators where knowledge and data move fluidly through a barrier-free space.
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago
The first-ever “translational" research hospital in which clinicians, scientists, innovators and technologists work together in the same space, surrounding patients, discovering new approaches and applying (or “translating") research in real time. This translational approach means patients and families have 24/7 access to the brightest minds and latest research, and the best opportunity for recovery.
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Mind The Gap. Invest in the story of why. The how and what will follow. Then, you are writing the bigger story of progress and change.
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“Change in a community, or in “Why are we moving to the city? a workplace, can feel fearful— To interact, give back, connect, as if there is something about to be and learn how to help bring lost. It is crucial to start with the people together as participants why and articulate the desired in the community.” outcomes. It cannot be assumed that everyone understands your initiative, or will see your desired outcomes as a win.”
“The “why” of livable cities is a tough issue, and I think it needs to address the very basics: safety, education, and employment opportunity. If we’re not keeping those issues in focus, then we lose good people and we lose equitable growth.”
Shradha Agarwal
Molly Wallace
David Doig
President and Co-Founder Outcome Health
Director of Experiential Marketing Wilson
President CNI Group
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Motorola Mobility Chicago
Acquire, experience, collaborate, reflect, master, and convey. Motorola Mobility’s six learning behaviors were translated into physical space to support the purpose of their teams, the larger community and their history and legacy in Chicago.
Radio Flyer Chicago
Whimsical murals, prevalent daylight, exposed wood and industrial skylights tell the story of a company that has been bringing warm smiles and creating warm memories for 100 years. Bright, open workspace allows for active collaboration and innovation, surrounded by bright colors that remind the teams all the time how their work affects the world in a positive way.
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Seeing Is Believing. Small wins are evidence. Prioritize and showcase those wins to build momentum.
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“Go to any community on the south and west side of Chicago and they’ll show you a four-foot stack of plans from the past thirty years. Some see it as progress. Most see it as broken promises. When you put small wins on the board—the tangible evidence that plans actually turned into something you can see and feel—that’s the real win.”
“We design for the moonshot, but implement in— incremental steps. In Detroit, we have 24-square miles the size of Manhattan—of vacant land the city owns and it’s our opportunity and our responsibility to the people of Detroit to shape that land for our future. And, it’ll take generations to work through, so what is our first step? How do we make sure Mrs. Jones sees the change from her front porch?” “Having a kind of physical ‘thing’ that has to be produced, which is very different than paper, or position paper, or a manifesto. It's something physical. You know you've succeeded when you've delivered it.”
David Doig
Maurice Cox
President CNI Group
Director of Planning City of Detroit
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Harold Washington Library Chicago
The newly renovated Thomas Hughes Children’s Library transitions children from spectators (traditional library model) to participants (the new “maker� library model). The design brings all ages together in the center plaza, but have their own individual zones to be with children of their age group.
Woodlawn Station Chicago
Focused on the needs of the neighborhood, Woodlawn Station is a mixed-use development that will show what is possible to build trust from residents, students and neighbors to address the needs of vacant lots and other land-use issues in the area.
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Optimizing Millennials’ Sense of Place and Sense of Purpose. The new workforce generation is giving the workplace revolution renewed life. This group is mission-driven. Give them a goal and foster their momentum.
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“Many of our cities have seen amazing revitalization and new energy with talent pouring in from the suburbs and straight out of school. It seems like, in many ways, cities are now harnessing that power and companies, government agencies, and neighborhoods are recognizing that the Millennial cohort is an important part of an overall city strategy for planning, developing, and policy creation.”
“As we look at Millennials, current “I treat my future employees like and prospective employees, we potential clients. Top talent say know they have new priorities for things like, ‘What allows our their work environment— both the experience together—this physical space and the workplace partnership in our work and policies in place . They love their passions—to be more profitable job, their work, and they respect for both of us?’ This generation their freetime and freedoms a lot. has provocative thoughts.” Their life balance is really, really important and that somewhat forced us, in a very positive way, to upgrade the way we look at the corporate environment.”
Diane Hoskins
Molly Wallace
Theaster Gates
Co-CEO Gensler
Director of Experiential Marketing Wilson
American social practice installation artist
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The Garage at Northwestern University Chicago
A strong “energy� fills the space creating a hub of the broader Northwestern University entrepreneurial community. Engendering a sense of dynamism and experimentation is key, as the overarching objective is to attract and connect innovative ideas to investment.
Gensler Costa Rica Costa Rica
Drawing on Gensler's extensive research into high-performance workplaces, our Costa Rica office is a showcase for creative and collaborative working. Based in San JosĂŠ's burgeoning EscazĂş business district, the office takes advantage of mountain vistas with two terraces that extend the workspace environment outdoors to include meeting tables, hammocks and an organic vegetable garden.
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Raw Materials and Raw Energy. Put the puzzle together with people, place, and purpose in a way that’s playful and imperfect.
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“The true potential is the connection of raw materials—the people, places, spaces that make up our cities. At the center is transportation and the ability for these materials to find each other.”
“Something's being rebuilt and recreated every day. One building is repositioned from something old to something new, next to an old building being celebrated for exactly what it is, next to a new, shiny highrise right nextdoor. There is this continual momentum to raise a better future together.”
Theaster Gates
Shradha Agarwal
American social practice installation artist
President and Co-Founder Outcome Health
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84.51 Centre Chicago
Partnership between the City of Cincinnati, 3CDC (an Urban Real Estate Developer), and dunnhumby (a retail research firm), this project is located in the central business district of Cincinnati and is an iconic addition to Cincinnati’s downtown as another example of the continued urban redevelopment of the city.
Columbia College Student Center Chicago
Part of the school’s strategic vision for the future, the new building offers more than a typical student center—actively magnifying the energy and creativity found within in it rather than simply serving as a passive container for it. The building visualizes the creative process and encourages students to reevaluate their perspectives.
THIS IS NOT THE END The conversation doesn’t stop here. This is just the beginning. We look forward to inviting you to future events where your perspective, voice, and expertise will help us continue our focus on designing livable cities for all.
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