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Create a platform for broad public programming.

• Use archives and exhibitions as hybrid gallery, media archives, library and community center.

• Become one of the country’s most important venues for the exhibition and study of art, architecture, and black culture.

• Position Chicago and the nation at the forefront of the growing movement of site-specific, concept-driven alternative art institutions.

• Offer a destination for artists, scholars, curators, and collectors to research and engage with Chicago history. Stony Island Arts Bank St. Laurence Elementary School

Transform a 40,000 square foot shuttered school into a maker space with a strong education focus.

• Provide artist studio space and a small design accelerator.

• Accommodate varying kinds of artists’ practices.

• Create a guild build school offering training and apprenticeships in painting, drawing, printmaking, milling, design, and product modeling.

• Offer Tool, Tech and Fab Labs, significantly augmenting neighbors’ skills, employability, as well as artists’ craft and the scope of their work.

• Creating adjacent housing. St. Laurence Elementary School Kenwood Gardens

Transform 13 vacant lots owned by the City of Chicago into lush spaces of beauty.

• Reactivate blighted empty lots through major replanting and landscape design.

• Strengthen the identity of the neighborhood while creating a new model for cultural production and public engagement through public programming and education.

• Create partnerships and educational opportunities around food production, community gardening, collaborative build training, design build, furniture production.

• Teach violence prevention and peace practices in the gardens and meditative spaces.

• Build pods for artist residencies. Kenwood Gardens Garfield Park Industrial Arts

Transform 13 stables and a former powerhouse owned by the Chicago Park District into a center for industrial arts fabrication and training.

• Re-invigorate a portion of the Chicago Park District public asset portfolio with artist training and work space.

• Connect culture to industry through a Welcome Center in the renovated powerhouse that also houses a gallery, space for public programs, a product showroom and facilities for production.

• Convert stables to studios providing artisan spaces for design fabrication and sale of products to be utilized in the Chicago Arts and Industrial Commons assets and other partnership projects. Garfield Park Industrial Arts N The Narrative

13 “... neighborhoods don’t thrive just because. There’s work that’s put into it. Neighbor- hoods that have more than just volunteer organizations, like if there’s a [community development corporation], or a communi- ty planning group, there’s actual staff that Introduction makes it better. Even the richest neighbor- The Chicago Arts + Industry Commons (CAIC) offers a strat- hoods have associations, or groups that egy of connectivity for sleepy civic assets. All cities have maintain whatever kind of neighborhood it is vacant or underutilized properties formerly functioning as that they are looking for.” meaningful and influential parts of civic life. Efforts to stabi- lize or re-energize neighborhoods have addressed singular activation–a library, school, park, warehouse or plaza. Soli- –Natalie Moore tary structures then bare the burden of reviving an economy Author of The Side South: A Portrait of Chicago or area. The work of the Chicago Arts + Industry Commons and American Chicago and South Side Reporter recalibrates activation, targeting resources as networks of for WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio) neighborhood development, instead of isolated assets. The strategy of connectivity realizes the potential of harmonized investment, synchronized programming, coordinated training and education and sustainability. 14 Chicago Context with varying interests from diverse communities with inten- tional design that integrates educational, professional and There are neighborhoods on the south and west sides of socio-economic backgrounds. While the investment seeks Chicago that have repeatedly been included in plans for re- mostly to increase the number of public assets, it is with full development. Words like renewal, transformation and rede- understanding that this will also re-energize the residential velopment come to be experienced as empty promises. Well and commercial interest in the Greater Grand Crossing, South made plans that rarely materialize into architectural, social Shore, Woodlawn, Washington Park and Garfield Park areas. and economic transformation for communities. Never has there been an opportunity so aligned where gov- To move divested Chicago neighborhoods forward, CAIC ad- ernmental agencies, civic institutions and private resources vances an innovative approach to community development–a have been so willing to create transformation on the south socially engaged neighborhood master implementation and west sides of Chicago. In 2012, the city created the Chi- strategy. The intended outcome: clustered and coordinated cago Cultural Plan, a framework to identify priorities, recom- activity among a network of significant sites that enhances mendations and opportunities for arts and cultural growth. public access to these places and better integrates them into Selected priorities of the Cultural Plan include: facilitating the city life of Chicago. A civic commons approach for Chica- neighborhood planning of cultural activity and districts, go must increase the number of opportunities available for elevating and expanding neighborhood cultural assets and people who have often been left out of the upside of eco- attracting and retaining artists and creative professionals. nomic development. Creative structures have a responsibility Selected recommendations of the Cultural Plan include: en- to address social needs. suring equal access to arts education, linking neighborhoods to each other and downtown and addressing space needs for CAIC will redevelop and reactivate three significant sites on artists and creative professionals. The Plan suggests that the the South Side of Chicago, advancing interrelated projects city update and revise its zoning, building code and license that are civically owned assets, property or buildings avail- regulations to encourage artist live/work, retail, coworking able on the market and privately held sleepy assets within the and incubator spaces and to use Tax Incremental Financing network. The selected and connected assets are a study in funds towards affordable artist housing and live/work spaces. neighborhood revitalization via the civic commons. A fourth They also advocate for the creation of incentive programs and final asset, underscores the importance of private and to convert underutilized spaces for cultural uses. As drivers public partnerships and addresses the realities post-industrial of the Cultural Plan, the City of Chicago will continue to cities face as part of urban transformation. partner on projects that focus on the built environment and CAIC will connect closed civic buildings and vacant city lots. community-­based cultural work on the south and west sides The spaces are: of Chicago. 1. a bank 2. a school 3. gardens and greenspace 4. thirteen stables 5. a powerhouse Chicago Arts + Industry Commons is advancing assets that have or house mixed uses within singular structures. The reimagined spaces will have enticements that attract visitors 15 Project Leadership Recipient of Funds

Through a public private partnership, the University of Chica- Space Fund NFP will be the recipient of funds under the Chi- go’s Place Lab at the Harris School of Public Policy, Rebuild cago Arts + Industry Commons. University of Chicago’s Arts Foundation and Space Fund NFP will oversee the redevel- + Public Life, Place Lab, and Rebuild Foundation will receive opment of the Chicago Arts + Industry Commons assets and subawards in accordance with their scope of work. It is esti- additional adjacent sites in need of care. Place Lab will be the mated that $3 million of the $10 million initial budget will be convener and lead engagement with CAIC partners. utilized for soft costs while the remaining $7 million will be allocated for capital. Place Lab is a team of professionals from the diverse fields of law, urban planning, architecture, design, social work, arts ad- The collection of civic assets for the Chicago Arts + Industry ministration and gender and cultural studies. The team works Commons will not come online at once, but will be phased in to document and demonstrate urban ethical redevelopment as properties are developed and programmed with Stony Is- strategies initiated through arts and culture. Place Lab is land being the first activated civic asset in the CAIC network. the structural engine that supports these efforts through programmatic activation, capturing methods and sharing its process with other cities. Space Fund NFP will act as the overarching civic asset man- ager during the construction and activation process. Space Fund NFP will also own all of the assets in the CAIC network except the Stony Island Arts Bank and the assets comprising Garfield Park Industrial Arts. By enlisting critical building as- sets through arts and culture, Space Fund NFP is the central catalyst for neighborhood investment and transformation. Rebuild Foundation and Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago will lead the programmatic ambitions of the assets in collaboration with public, private, and governmental part- ners. Rebuild Foundation enlists teams of artists, architects, developers, educators, community activists, and residents who work together to integrate the arts, apprenticeship trade training and creative entrepreneurship into a community-driv- en process of neighborhood transformation.

16 Asset 1: Stony Island Arts Bank Asset 2: St. Laurence Elementary School

Built in 1923, the Stony Island Arts Bank, located at 6760 School systems in many large U.S. cities face the challenge of South Stony Island Avenue, is registered with the National school closures and maintaining vacated buildings. Chicago Trust for Historic Preservation and, until its closure in 1978, experienced this in 2013 during the nation’s largest public had been a vibrant community landmark. Throughout its school closure in U.S. history. St. Laurence School is located history it suffered long periods of dormancy and by 2012, the on a residential street in the Greater Grand Crossing neigh- monumental granite and terra cotta building was in severe borhood. This community like so many others on the south disrepair and targeted for demolition by the City of Chica- and west sides of the city was disproportionately impacted go. To save from demolition, Theaster Gates purchased the by the CPS 2013 school closures. Several years before the building from the City of Chicago and, to- date, has put ap- landmark closings, population and demographic changes proximately $5 million into the renovation of the Bank. Civic resulted in a diminishing Catholic parish in the neighborhood. Commons funds would allow the space to be programmed to St. Laurence School was forced to close its doors in 2002. the scale of the building’s magnitude, reflecting the prosper- The 40,000 square foot building has been vacant for over a ity of the once thriving Chicago South Shore commercial and decade. CAIC will introduce the shuttered school into the entertainment district. commons as an asset with a strong education focus. The re- The radically restored building serves as a space for neighbor- newed civic asset will provide artist studio space and a small hood residents to preserve, access, reimagine and share their design incubator. This amenity is designed to accommodate heritage and as a destination for artists, scholars, curators, varying kinds of artists’ practices and a guild build school of- and collectors to research and engage with South Side his- fering training and apprenticeships for adults, Chicago Public tory. As part of CAIC, the Bank has the potential to become School youth ages 14-18 and other youth up to 21 years of one of the country’s most important venues for the exhibi- age, specifically interested in painting, drawing, printmaking, tion and study of contemporary art, architecture, and black milling, design and product modeling. This site will offer Tool, culture. As a public asset it stands to put Chicago, and the Tech and Fab Labs, resources that are not often made avail- nation, at the forefront of the growing movement of site-spe- able to community members or artists in their studio space. cific, concept-driven alternative art institutions. The Chicago Access to state of the art labs will significantly augment Arts + Industry Commons creates a civic commons that has neighbors’ skills, employability, as well as artists’ craft and the reverberations around the world. scope of their work. Construction at the Bank is complete. The public opening of The property is owned by 1341 East 72nd Street, LLC, a sole the Bank was in October 2015 and its inaugural exhibition member limited liability company. As part of CAIC, this prop- was part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. erty will be conveyed to Space Fund NFP. Preliminary site preparation, architectural drawings have been prepared and cleanout of the building has commenced. Building renovation is expected to commence Summer 2016. It is anticipated that the building will be open to the public Spring 2018.

17 Asset 3: Kenwood Gardens Asset 4: Garfield Park Industrial Arts

Parks matter to diverse populations and natural space must The West Side of Chicago has its own history that is simulta- be democratized so that there is no question about who neously tied to South Side of Chicago but also characterized should and can have access to parks and gardens. For urban by unique neighborhood development patterns and land residents and communities of color with unequal access to uses, setting it apart from other predominantly African Amer- natural amenities, Kenwood Gardens is a strategy to ensure ican communities on Chicago’s South Side. Including Garfield environmental justice. The Gardens will transform 13 lots Park Industrial Arts in Chicago’s Civic Commons network acquired from the City of Chicago. The world’s best land- underscores the reality of modern American cities–industrial scape architects, designers, engineers, and creatives will be abandonment must be addressed in plans for urban transfor- convened to green the hood. Their visions will result in major mation. Can unused factories, corporate headquarters, offic- replantings and reactivation of blighted empty lots into lush es, and production facilities be recast in the contemporary spaces of beauty. The work leverages existing infrastructure moment as cultural anchors that also exist as modern industri- in the neighborhood, attracting talent to formerly sleepy al training and production centers? Can they connect past to tracts of land. The intervention will strengthen the identity present, production to consumption, arts to economy? of the neighborhood while creating a new model for cultur- Garfield Park Industrial Arts, pairs 13 renovated outdoor al production and public engagement through public pro- stables built in 1888 with the adjacent powerhouse construct- gramming and education. A number of artists “pods” will be ed in 1896. The former plant was designed to house massive constructed on the land along with a community building for generators that would power lighting for Garfield and Doug- visitors. The structures provide artists with “tiny homes” to las Parks. It is a large Flemish Revival structure that is approx- work where they live for the duration of a residency lasting imately 150 feet long and 60 feet wide. These buildings are 3-6 months depending on artist practice. nestled in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. The Gardens will allow for tremendous educational opportu- Planning initiatives routinely highlight this community area’s nities and create unprecedented partnerships including the unique neighborhood features including Garfield Park, a Chicago Park District and Chicago Botanic Garden. 184-acre urban park located in the designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney and is the oldest of the Educational opportunities around food production, commu- three great original Chicago West Side parks (Humboldt Park, nity gardening, collaborative build training, design build and Garfield, and Douglas Park). The neighborhood is also home furniture production will be created. Green and contempla- to the Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest and tive spaces will establish new amenities connected to well- most impressive conservatories in the United States. Kinzie ness education. For neighborhoods disproportionately affect- Industrial Corridor, Fulton-Carroll Corridor, and an artery of ed by community and structural violence, access to gardening Chicago’s historic Boulevard street system, are situated to and meditation space create necessary opportunities to teach the east. A well-trafficked Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) peace practices and violence prevention. Green Line public transportation “L” station sits blocks from Acquisition of the property from the City of Chicago is in the Stables and Powerhouse. As the industrial character of process with an expected closing date in Summer 2016. This the neighborhood grew, residential structures, including the property will be conveyed to Space Fund NFP. Site prepa- iconic Chicago greystones were built to house workers in ration and planning is ongoing. Construction is expected to nearby factories. East Garfield Park peaked to 70,000 res- commence Summer 2016. It is anticipated that the space will idents in 1950. By 2010, with far fewer factory jobs nearby be open to the public Winter 2017. and thousands of housing units lost over the years, there are 18 just 20,567 residents and approximately 1,750 vacant lots. Loss can constitute a bright future for the area utilizing CAIC’s socially-engaged neighborhood master implementation strat- egies. Today East Garfield Park offers commercial and mixed use nodes, green corridors and mixed use areas. The Stables and the Powerhouse, two properties in the City’s portfolio of public assets, will be repurposed in Phase One with additional investment in artist home-ownership in ex- isting residential structures as well as new residential units on current vacant parcels in Phase Two. During Phase One, the Stables will be converted into studios for artists, artisans, and creative entrepreneurs. The renovated Powerhouse will include a new public Welcome Center facing Hamlin Avenue that will draw Conservatory and Park visitors into the gallery, programming spaces and production showroom. Fabrication students will engage in industrial arts training and production ranging from wood mill operations to brick manufacturing in this same facility. The Chicago Arts + Industry Commons will be served by pro- duction generated at the Garfield Park Industrial Arts assets. The Cultural Reinvestment Model is at the core of Chicago’s Reimagining the Civic Commons Network. It operates in a cyclical nature–underutilized assets transformed into a re- vitalised assets that house economic engines, resulting in new developments and new capital that is re-invested into the model. These new developments and new capital help support the existing asset and fosters network growth. If the Cultural Reinvestment Model is the muscle of network, The Chicago Arts + Industry Commons powers that muscle, pro- viding the raw material and skilled labor utilized at the other assets in the Chicago network. This property will remain under the ownership of the Chicago Park District. CAIC has possession and control of the property under a long term lease with the Park District. Site prepara- tion and planning is ongoing. Construction is expected to commence in Fall 2016. It is anticipated that the space will be open to the public in fall 2017.

19 Chicago Arts + Industry Commons PROJECTED CONSTRUCTION AND PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Stony Island Arts Bank Programming Completed October 2015

St. Laurence Elementary School Construction Programming Summer 2016 - Spring 2018

Kenwood Gardens Construction Programming Summer 2016 - Winter 2017

Garfield Park Industrial Arts Construction Programming Summer 2016 - Fall 2017 Cultural Reinvestment Model

The Chicago Arts + Industry Commons will utilize an evolv- ing Cultural Reinvestment Model for neighborhood activation steeped in arts and culture. In this model, a singular sleepy asset is activated utilizing a capital stack configured of a combi- nation of any or all of the following: private investment, owner equity, philanthropic dollars, public funds, and tax credits. The sleepy asset becomes a revitalized cultural space which offers programming, pedagogy, training, shared tools and resources, job creation and incubation. The revitalized asset is part of an engine that spurs new development and new capital. At times, the new capital created by the singular cultural asset may not be sufficient to bear the burden of both generating enough re- sources to sustain itself and spawn further development. There- fore, the new capital created by the revitalized asset must be further leveraged by a for-profit revenue generating engine to create additional new capital and development. This engine can include one or more commercial, residential, retail, and/or man- ufacturing enterprise. The new capital and development created by the collective for-profit and nonprofit engine helps sustain the revitalized asset while creating additional capital and value in new spaces and places. This influx ignites a reverberation (cycle) of new development and community amenities. While art is the frame by which we advance transformation, it is contextual to our circumstances as an applicant. Others invested in deploying strategies of connectivity in their cities may benefit from our methods but have a different engine driving activation. The price tag associated with redevelopment and neighborhood “revi- talization” projects requires a stack of resources to offset the costs of aging infrastructure and/or deteriorating architectural, environ- mental and social conditions. Apply the capital stack (in a number of configurations) to the sleepy asset to alter the landscape. The visual of the “Cultural Reinvestment Model” depicts the flow of resource in a place, over time. It illustrates the sequence of activity and investment driving the type of development we currently enact. With support for our Reimagining the Civic Commons project, we will continue to pursue this model to cre- ate a vibrant civic commons on Chicago’s south and west sides. 21

Connectivity visible what was once overlooked or devalued • Place: obsolete structures have a legacy that can reintro- The funding, architectural, cultural and programmatic network duced to make new contemporary meaning and places proposed for the Chicago Arts + Industry Commons is anal- of purpose ogous to the existing structures that operate buildings and projects associated with Theaster Gates. Place Lab, Arts and • Communication: periodic to regular information sharing Public Life, Rebuild Foundation and Space Fund NFP current- across sites increases awareness and contributes to clari- ly coordinate a constellation of neighborhood-based redevel- ty of purpose and priority opment projects envision by Gates. Each entity takes lead on For the purposes of prototyping we focused on communica- different dimensions of the work. This structural arrangement tion as it relates to network or constellation-based work. The is a smaller scale model of civic commons and asset connec- prototyping theory tested: What is the value of knowing what tivity. Reimagining the Civic Commons is intended to cata- others are up to in the whole organization? lyze resource sharing–personnel, programming, funding and learning across geography. Our ecosystem’s network mimics Over several weeks, Place Lab launched a series of commu- Reimagining the Civic Commons and reinforces its premise–a nication pilots to learn how the various entities in our net- set of connected assets yield increased and more widely work can better share, collaborate, and sustain work across shared prosperity for cities and neighborhoods. our ecosystem. Our hunch was that if we are occasionally confused about roles and relationships within our network, Each Reimagining the Civic Commons team participated in a the public is even more unclear about the ways in which our research and design process in order to enhance and refine teams, buildings and programs are connected or distinct. their proposal idea. The Chicago Arts + Industry Commons A scenario that could easily occur with any of the proposed interjects arts and culture as the animator of the commons. civic commons projects. We wanted to test a concept al- Consequently, the design question we sought to examine as lowed us to: an applicant is, “How will artist-led transformation create a platform for robust public life on the South Side?” • Create a mindset of one organization Delving into possible answers to our design question allowed • Alleviate the bottleneck of knowledge us to explore qualities of our present network structure as • Teach ourselves how to speak proudly and broadly about well as the methods and processes we use to carry out our what all the entities are up to work. We determined that there are five dimensions of our work that can be instructive for the Reimagining the Civic • Induce intra-network support through greater participa- Commons on a national scale. tion at events and programming • Collaboration: strike a balance that benefits locals while Civic Commons aims to connect new assets, a system that is inviting all publics, create a cosmopolitan localism larger and more complex than our existing projects in various ways. In order to show the connectivity of these assets to the • Lean operation: an exorbitant amount money and time public, we must first establish the connectivity of our existing are not necessary to make moves and impact, iterate to assets. Prototyping mocks up an internally connected system demonstrate and grow of generosity, curiosity and sharing. Lessons from the internal • Design integrity: the free thing, in this case the neighbor- experiment can then be transferred to the civic commons hood amenity or civic asset should be the beautiful struc- systems to demonstrate ways to bring the public (external parties) into this network of assets. ture or parcel of land that garners attention and makes 23 Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate RSS

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How will artist-led transformation create a platform for robust public life on the South Side?

Who are you? No, seriously. Rebuild Foundation. Arts + Public Life. BING. Place Lab. Theaster Gates Studio. The Currency Exchange Café. Every day, individuals and teams across the entities within Theaster's ecosystem busily strive toward a common goal— but many of us have never even met. So, who are you?

Why are we asking? Our team is growing. As we bring on new projects, it becomes all the more important to grow our internal capacity. Over the next weeks, Place Lab will launch a series of communication pilots to learn how we can better share, collaborate, and sustain our work across the ecosystem. This work is part of a Civic Commons project, a pilot proposal that Place Lab is developing to reactivate underutilized civic assets in Chicago. As part of this proposal process, we have the opportunity to grow our internal network capacity and present our ecosystem as a demonstrative model for ways to foster successful artist­led organizations.

The communication pilots will ask the questions: What do you wish everyone else in the ecosystem knew about what you do? How might we share across the ecosystem? What is the value of sharing?

How will this work? Each week, we will introduce a new pilot. The pilots won't require much work. In fact, this week's first pilot simply involves watching the video above and answering the team­building question below.

What is ONE WORD that describes you as a child? 24

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Questions? Email Place Lab. Posturing bodies, styles from this era then that. Colors, patterns swirl, pop, zig, and zag. Eyes and lips seduce, draw intrigue, elicit desire. Cultural codes and signifiers “ overlaid with personal codes: a work plan? The visual encases the sonic, an audio archive accessible through sight. Music plays in my mind.”

Most of the objects in the Ed Williams Collection feature hugely grotesque, dehumanizing, or otherwise stereotypical representations, but this print does no such “ thing. The black Union soldiers are heroic, dignified, even though the stereotype of the incompetent, unintelligent, cowardly black soldier persisted until the late 1960s.”

Inside the Johnson Publishing Company Library, the weight of history is visible. Each visit invites a new angle for exploration. Today, I’m absorbed by “ stories of the African Diaspora. And I’m hopeful that future people will have access to stories of the new diasporas and displacements of today.”

The glass lantern slide collection... themselves are beautiful and rare, but the historiography of the collection; parsing over what, and who, the slides depicted, “ how they were depicted, and being able to see it change over time through the collection.”

Kate showed me a slide she estimated dating from the mid-late 1800s. She knew this because the slide was framed so delicately in hand-painted gold leaf... “ household glass lantern slide collections were rare and expensive hobbies... economically inaccessible to the public. I feel a powerful resonance...being given the right to access this library.”

The books are imbued with value just by being presented and used in the Bank. As such I feel like black subjectivity is both normalized and exalted. The books “ become something to engage with and learn from. Something precious and pedestrian all at the same time.”

25 Our prototyping included staff from Rebuild Foundation, Arts and Public Life, BING Art Books, Place Lab, Theaster Gates Studio and the Currency Exchange Café. The communica- What is the value of tion tests were transmitted via email, some necessitating a response from the recipient, other tests simply offered re- flection or observation about dimensions of our work as an knowing what others artist-led network. Place Lab commenced the communication prototyping with are up to in the an introductory video “Growth Spurt” explaining ensuing experiments and request for participation. The video was whole organization? followed by the collected reflections of the Place Lab staff documenting the experience of visiting the Stony Island Arts Bank and becoming trained to use the various cultural ar- chives and collections housed at the Bank, an asset within the Chicago Arts + Industry Commons. The third communication pilot was a gift box exchange among teams in the ecosystem, offered as an instructional gift to create greater awareness of team identity. The final communication pilot was a “orienta- tion bag” offered to every employee. The “orientation bag” contains artistic objects–books, films, and other items meant to encourage curiosity about the foundational tenets of the various disciplines that drive our work. Work analogous to connecting public assets to yield increased and more widely shared prosperity for cities and neighborhoods. Each city’s civic commons project will require mission buy-in from collaborators and sophisticated communication mechanism to generate connectivity between the teams and the assets.

26 Sustainability Through Arts and Culture through environmental innovations, activated by arts and culture. While the tactics and process may not make environ- Typical sustainability models focus on conserving resources, mentalists out of all of us, it will enhance once-ailing ameni- preventing and redressing acts of environmental degrada- ties in communities on Chicago’s south and west sides often tion, and supporting a defined level of economic production. saddled with more environmental burdens and less environ- Reimagining the Civic Commons is about social connectivity mental benefits than their neighbors to the north. through the built environment of cities’ public realms. CAIC Resiliency is the process of adaptation in the face of adversi- advances a sustainability model rooted in social sustainability ty. The south and west sides of Chicago regularly have to be and resiliency, underscoring the relationship between pro- resilient and resourceful. Inequity and segregation require it. cess, people and place. Planning in a resilient and adaptive way now means that peo- Social sustainability is one aspect of sustainability or sustain- ple in the present prepare themselves and future generations able development. Social sustainability encompasses human against the impacts of disaster, resource depletion, environ- rights, labor rights, and corporate governance. In common mental degradation or population shifts, particularly popula- with environmental sustainability, social sustainability is the tion loss in the case of the neighborhoods on the south and idea that future generations should have the same or great- west sides. As disaster, degradation or changing conditions er access to social resources as the current generation (“in- unfold it is most often those who are least equipped to com- ter-generational equity”), while there should also be equal bat crisis or change who are most affected by it. access to social resources within the current generation The Chicago Arts + Industry Commons will take a step fur- (“intra-generational equity”). Social resources include ideas as ther than removing barriers so neglected communities can broad as other cultures and basic human rights. take advantage of the upsides of sustainability efforts. It If civic commons is an act of renewal, investing in a network will integrate neighbors into the development of their own of sleepy assets of CAIC is an act of preservation. The cul- communities. It will compel connection to land and buildings tural life of the city is continually injected with possibility and and teach stewardship for their maintenance and longevity. It vibrancy, when amenities are maintained and reimagined, will train and employ. All of the assets in the Chicago Arts + instead of demolished or destroyed. Reimagining the Civic Industry Commons bolster resilience for communities as they Commons for Chicago promotes the longevity of the city’s support social connection. Revitalized assets and the ensuing social infrastructure, making public places and systems more programs that come from them impart a greater awareness attractive and available to wider audiences. and reverence for Chicago’s rich heritage and legacy. This is a crucial step to create optimism and reinforce the ability to An assessment of many urban areas reads as follows: deplet- face adversities. ed resources, destroyed natural systems, unnecessary hazards passed to future generations. The CAIC interrupts this path While firmly rooted in social sustainability and environmental of environmental and social degradation through four modes justice, all five sites of the Chicago Arts + Industry Commons of sustainability: education, resources, wellness and mobility. also illustrate deep commitment to environmental sustain- These four modes of investing in the local environment gen- ability. Already clear demonstrations of building reuse, the erate a strong ecology so that people, their health, relation- building interiors and site furnishings will be fitted with ships, gathering places, material culture and infrastructure are salvaged materials from local deconstructions and ash wood not compromised. from felled trees donated by the Chicago Park District. The adaptive reuse of each of the building typologies demon- CAIC strives to build a connection between people and place strate activism through preservation and use, as the norm in 27 this area has been to demolish rather than to revitalize. Build- ing design and construction will include energy and water efficiency measures and stormwater management. At proj- ects with outdoor focus, Kenwood Garden and Garfield Park Industrial Arts, the land will be sculpted and native plants will be chosen to support onsite stormwater detention and collection. Salvage plants will provide starts for each outdoor environment. Additionally, Kenwood Gardens demonstrates redevelopment of a degraded site. Both a challenge and an opportunity, transit in the South Side is not as robust as in other parts of the City. Three of the identified assets in the Chicago Arts + Industry Commons are in close proximity to one another. The Chicago Transit Authority, the City’s transit agency, provides 1.7 million rides on an average weekday. However, there are areas of the City, particularly on the South Side, where residents walk excessive distances to get to stops and stations. This network of city assets will bolster density which will lead to better transit op- tions. While a long term goal is to work with the City of Chi- cago and Chicago Transit Authority towards additional stops and stations, CAIC will explore ridesharing, bicycle sharing and shuttle systems between the assets and other cultural amenities on the South Side.

28 SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH ARTS + CULTURE

AMPHITHEATRE

LISTENING GARDEN

SOUND LOUNGE

MARKED BIKE LANE INSIDE / OUTSIDE STAGE

CAFE

ART ROOM PLAZA

RAPID TRANSIT BUS

DEDICATED BIKE LANE WATER GARDEN

PLAY ROOM

EDUCATION RESOURCES WELLNESS MOBILITY

Create learning communities. Reinvest in people. Amplify beauty in nature. Design a high-quality public realm experience. Promote environmental Reclaim and reuse materials. Develop artful open spaces. stewardship. Enhance infrastructure for bikes and Repropose inactive spaces and Strengthen community safety. pedestrians. Support information exchange in relationships. workshops, apprenticeships, class- Incentivize walkability and access es, and performances. to transit. Conclusion

Aging infrastructure, forgotten or underused tracts of land, and buildings that no longer meet shifting community needs are ubiquitous in most cities in post-industrial America. Cre- ative solutions are necessary for 21st century city building. Even in a new era, traditional master planning is typified by future-focused inaction. CAIC is strategized master imple- mentation with a view toward bold, creative, and sustain- able interventions that will catalyze transformations, CAIC is poised to capitalize on Chicago’s strengths: a large pool of talent, sizable tracts of enhanceable land, historic and cultur- ally significant rebounding neighborhoods, a diverse popu- lation, strong base of cultural institutions and organizations, an expanding community of civic innovators and a growing group of people who are interested and feel responsible for the places they call home. CAIC is committed to making what already exists in Chicago, buildings and cultural programming more accessible for larger publics to appreciate. As skillful planners, coordinators and implementers, with a comprehen- sive approach to city building, CAIC can make a network of Chicago amenities exceptional local, regional, national and international draws. 30