HAPPENINGS | creative-grounds

Through events, activations, installations

we build awareness, enable open dialogues and spark collective imagination about the future of social infrastructure in our city.

Designing Access To Food

Since 2017, Borderless Studio has been activating Anthony Overton through Creative Grounds. This year brought unprecedented challenges...

Photo: Brandon Biederman We had a unique year at Anthony Overton. The Climate and Cultural Resilience Project was an opportunity for us...

We are students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This project proposal was created through the course Process(ing)...

This was our last community meet up day at Overton – Chicago's winter weather started to arrive, and was time to take a brake to incubate...

During this weekend, Overton School participates in Open House Chicago – a free, two-day public festival that offers behind-the-scenes...

Photos by Sandra Steinbrecher During the summer of 2019, Overton was opened up for a series of Activation Days during which architects,...

The weekend prior to the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, all teams were all hands on deck! It was very exciting to see...

On Saturday, August 31st, we held our third public activation for Process(ing) Transformation – this was a day full of action! Our...

On Saturday, July 27th, we held our second public activation for Process(ing) Transformation. This time around, a total of five teams and...

From July 15th to 19th, Creative Grounds and Chicago Architecture Biennial, hosted a bootcamp week for architects, designers, and artists...