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.

Build Week @ Anthony Overton

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...

On Monday, July 15th, teens from the Chicago Architecture Foundation's Neighborhood Teen Ambassadors program visited former Overton...

On Saturday, July 6th, Creative Grounds hosted the first of three public activations of 2019. It was a hot summer day and we were ready...

On May 8th, our class, Process(ing) Transformation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, finished with an optimistic note for...

On Tuesday, April 16th, after weeks of prototyping and fine tuning, the long awaited Dimensions of Citizenship : Ain't You Heard - What...

After a summer-long collaboration with Creative Grounds' 8x3: Art + Architecture Summer activations, I decided to produce an iteration of...

Finally on a warm spring day in Chicago, we get to enjoy the great outdoors at Anthony Overton Elementary School. Our site visit was more...