Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this program features a talk by Jesse Rosenbluth who explores ways to  democratize access to nature by integrating science and design into working landscapes in the built environment. Design excellence and the science of maximizing environmental performance can together create landscapes that are resilient, but […]

Presented as part of Red Line Services’ Designing Belonging series, this Lunch & Learn program features a talk by Chandra Christmas-Rouse, an urban planner, advocate, and artist based in Chicago. With the goal of meeting the needs and priorities of residents and communities most effectively, she shares a healing-centered community development framework that includes guiding principles, strategies, […]

Individual and collective experiences of climate change are mediated simultaneously by embodied encounters with extreme weather events and by now-familiar abstractions of climate models and satellite imagery. As we grapple with the increasing dissonance between everyday life and epochal climatic and environmental change, how might we hold these intimate and remote forms of sensing in […]

Join Center for Native Futures for a talk with their 2023 Artist-in-Residence, Noelle Garcia (Klamath, Paiute). A reception with light refreshments follows the presentation. Based in the Chicago area, Noelle Garcia is an artist and educator who focuses on themes of identity, family history and recovered narratives in her work. She is an indigenous artist […]