The Chicago Design Summit serves as a catalyst for collaboration and partnership by offering a platform for participants to share and respond to ideas related to the upcoming CAB 5 titled, This is a Rehearsal. Led by the CAB 5 artistic team, Floating Museum, the one-day in-person event will feature sessions with local guests and visiting panelists, including the founder of JIMA Studio, Ujjiji Davis Williams, Principal at MASS Design, Jha D Amazi, anthropologist Vyjayanthi Rao, Founding Director of Stoss, Chris Reed, architect Feda Wardak, CEC Arts Link Program Director, Megha Ralapati, and Manager of Archives for Cook County Skyla S. Hearn, among others.
Ideas explored during the Summit—such as rehearsing critique, production, and relations—ask us to consider how we might rehearse new design approaches to collectively address emerging conversations about the contradictions between the concrete realities of our lives and environments and the narratives we construct.
Can we reconcile, embrace, or navigate these contradictions by rehearsing new processes for architectural and urbanistic production? How do we develop new programs and environments for attuning collective relations? And what feedback loops can we establish to inform critiques of the systems that shape our personal, interpersonal, and cultural experiences?
Please note that although the program is free and open to the public, registration is required.
The Summit is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Graham Foundation.
