Medium — "Community Resilience Through the Civic Commons, Part 1"
“The lush outdoor space is being transformed by the Rebuild Foundation with the help of Homan Grown, a local social enterprise and plant nursery located in Chicago’s West North Lawndale neighborhood on the city’s West Side. Homan Grown’s mission is to provide employment and training in advanced horticultural, design, and construction skills to residents, while acting as an educational resource for Chicago’s students and non-profits is closely aligned with Rebuild Foundation’s goal of strengthening the identity of the neighborhood while creating a new model for public engagement.”
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Whet Moser explores the Recombinant House, a component of the Studio’s Garden in the Machine proposal for Cicero, Illinois, presented in the MoMA exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream.
The Architect's Newspaper — "Memphis’s long-neglected Tom Lee Park gets an overhaul, and Theaster Gates wants to honor its namesake"
“Work on a $60 million project to overhaul a long-neglected stretch of Memphis, Tennessee’s Mississippi River waterfront is moving swiftly. Begun in 2019, the transformation of the 30-acre Tom Lee Park into a public gathering space and resilient stormwater barrier is unfolding according to a master plan by Chicago’s Studio Gang and landscape and park design by New York’s SCAPE. Now, the redevelopment has gained another notable contributor: artist, educator, and urbanist Theaster Gates.”
