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.

On-Site Workshop 1: Cold Weather, Warm Conversations

Our first on-site workshop was met with heavy snow and freezing temperatures, but upon our arrival at Anthony Overton Elementary School...

Student review with guests at the Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (SAIC). We couldn’t have had a...

During summer of 2018, Creative Grounds (www.creativegrounds.org) invited teams to collaborate in this activation series at former...

This past Saturday, August 18, we held our final activation day for [8x3]: ART + ARCHITECTURE at the former Anthony Overton Elementary...

On Saturday, July 28, we held the second public activation for [8x3]: ART + ARCHITECTURE this summer. This time around, a total of six...

With great energy this past week! We hosted a social for those who wanted to either visit the building, get familiar with the space and...

This week teens from the Chicago Architecture Foundation's Neighborhood Teen Ambassadors program visited former Overton School. As part...

On Saturday, June 30, we held our public activation #1 event of the summer. On this extremely hot day, we had two teams kicking-off their...

Jane Addams Hull House Museum is hosting a series of events to continue the conversations about closed schools in the City: Part 3: More...

Full video Collaborative public activation at former Anthony Overton Elementary School in Bronzeville, Chicago. Opening Closings is part...