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015_01_578-669

Focus: East Garfield Park and Near West Side of Chicago
Size: 42” x 78”
Medium: archival inkjet print
Date: 2012-2015

In many ways, 015 explores the line between an art practice, entrepreneurial work, and an architecture / urbanism practice.  The work began with an earnest attempt to develop strategies to rebuild the West Side of Chicago via a focus on sustainability as well as the role that digital platforms can play in managing, maintaining, and calling attention to a particular area.  The hope was that such digital platforms could serve as a scaleable service that would justify the initial investment and that would ultimately lead to investment in similar areas of cities around the country.  In order to embark on this work, I spent considerable time photographing the landscape that I hoped to attract interest in.  This initial engagement of the site led to further research into its history – especially the largely forgotten utopian Fifth City Development of the early 1960s – diagrams to help understand the urban form, interviews with residents, and partnerships with community groups.  It through the development of a series of proposals for five sites on the West Side that I felt would be capable of catalyzing broader redevelopment.  Finally, it took the form of a series of texts and books that summarized the approach.  While these might not fit within the traditional boundaries of an art practice, as a guide for how to engage a specific community and use design and creative thinking to benefit that community through attracting capital to improve the physical environment, they fall in line with a recent history of socially engaged practices.  They also are a clear extension from the broader body of work that seeks to interrogate sites and their histories in order to discover a material that can be used to rethink the present and possibly create an alternative future.

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