Creative Grounds
After the largest closure of public schools in Chicago and the United States, this initiative aims to be a research and creative resource to addressing the role and future of these former school sites in their corresponding communities by:
(a) documenting through an inventory of sites to understand conditions, challenges and opportunities in their corresponding communities;
(b) exploring creative planning and design ideas that reimagine closed schools as anchors for community development while strengthening the neighborhood’s public life;
(c) supporting ongoing or planned redevelopment efforts to amplify and accelerate repurposing processes.
Through hosting dialogues, researching best practices, creating a systematic documentation, and testing activation ideas, Creative Grounds serves as an public platform to discuss policies shaping our social infrastructure and built environment by making these challenges visible.
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2016-Ongoing
Collaborators: Sara Pooley, Jessica Moon
