Transition Uptown
Early graphics and a look at using OpenStreetMaps for Asset-Mapping the neighborhood
Neighborhood
Projects: Transition Uptown, 46th Ward Participatory Budgeting, Environmental living through community
Location: Chicago - 2010 to present
Responsibilities: Helped attempt to create a Transition Town initiative in Uptown as a main organizer. Volunteered as a community representative for the first Participatory Budgeting initiative in my ward. Maintain the responsibility of living intentionally in community.
Lessons Learned: Sometimes the problems of the world seem too great. Being involved with real people on the local level (wherever I am) allows me to work for and experience positive change at the personal level.
Transition Uptown
The "Share Fair" hosted by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, it brought together groups representing nearly every Chicago neighborhood to share their work on sustainability
Transition Uptown
A pre-community charrette we hosted to create different ideas about how some of our intersections and neighborhoods might look
Transition Uptown
What we called our "Provocative Image," this was a sketch I did to get people thinking about the "what-if's" and possibilities found in the spaces of our community
Participatory Budgeting
The first time for this initiative in our ward, we attempted to find, create and refine ideas for how to use part of the 1.3 million dollars given annually by the city to each ward
Participatory Budgeting
The idea I had (and worked on most) was to create digital community bulletin boards in public spaces. The idea was a bit too complicated to pull off, and never made it to the vote.
ICA Greenrise
Intentional community living in Uptown at the ICA building, the midwest's largest non-profit service center