Timeline
Highlights
Since the project started five issues have been released, including 70 contributors, 40 advisors/copyeditors/proofreaders, and 60 different projects in the city's current and recent history profiled in the pages of the magazine/website. Each of these issues has had a release event, which serve as a celebratory and networking occasion for contributors and friends of the project. Every event associated with the publication has happened in a different location (Ping Tom park in Chinatown, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Experimental Station in Woodlawn, the Jane Addams Hull House in West Loop, and Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport), reflecting the project's interest in the diverse geography of the city.
- All five issues (#1 Privatization, #2 Local Food Systems, #3 Solidarity, #4 Prisons/Justice System and #5 Education) have been published in print with 5,000 copies per issue and online in their entirety, receiving over 1000 unique visits to the website per month.
-Six lectures as part of the "Infrastructure Series" (at Mess Hall in Rogers Park, Polvo Arte in Pilsen, In These Times in Logan Square, ACME arts in Bucktown, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Hull House Museum in the West Loop).
- Editorial retreat at the Jane Adams Hull House and Young Chicago Authors with a 15 person advisory group
- Another Chicago, the email newsletter keeping contributors updated with organizational developments of AREA, and announcing the events/activities of our local contributors has been regularly sent since September 2006 to over 800 local subscribers.
-This summer's How We Learn event series brought together hundreds of Chicagoans to nearly 30 events about education, organization and participation. Including presentations by Andrew Gryf Paterson, Josh MacPhee, Feel Tank Chicago, Waite White, Chicagoland Bike Mechanic Orgs, Chicago Underground Library, Mess Hall, Platypus, Free Geek, Chicagoland/Calumet Underground Railroad Efforts, Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago Women's Health Center, The Odyssey Project, Stephen Haymes, Meredith Haggerty, Lavie Raven, Dave Pabellon, Scott Berzofsky, Dane Nester, Nicholas Wisniewski, Jesse Seay, Lou Mallozzi, Christina Kubisch Daniel, Kunle/Holger Lauinger, John Dewey, Charlie Vinz, Material Exchange, Nance Klehm, Vocalo.org Producers, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Counter Cartography Collective, and Kristen Cox of Fire This Time Fund.
- Workshops related to publishing and AREA have been developed for teenage contributors at the Howard Area Alternative High School and with the Young Chicago Authors organization. Numerous educators are using AREA texts in their after school program, high school and university classrooms.
-Lectures by about AREA have been presented at national and international conferences including Artivistic (Montreal), ReActivism (Central European University Budapest), 16beaver Group (New York), National Conference on Organized Resistance (Washington DC), Planners Network (University of Illinois Chicago), UCLA's Department of Urban Planning (Los Angeles), Syracuse University, and in numerous university seminars throughout Chicago at DePaul, Loyola, UIC, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
-AREA's mapping endeavor "Notes for a Peoples Atlas of Chicago" has been exhibited in such places as Columbia College's A+D Gallery, the Hyde Park Art Center, UIC's Gallery 400 and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Since the project started five issues have been released, including 70 contributors, 40 advisors/copyeditors/proofreaders, and 60 different projects in the city's current and recent history profiled in the pages of the magazine/website. Each of these issues has had a release event, which serve as a celebratory and networking occasion for contributors and friends of the project. Every event associated with the publication has happened in a different location (Ping Tom park in Chinatown, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Experimental Station in Woodlawn, the Jane Addams Hull House in West Loop, and Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport), reflecting the project's interest in the diverse geography of the city.
- All five issues (#1 Privatization, #2 Local Food Systems, #3 Solidarity, #4 Prisons/Justice System and #5 Education) have been published in print with 5,000 copies per issue and online in their entirety, receiving over 1000 unique visits to the website per month.
-Six lectures as part of the "Infrastructure Series" (at Mess Hall in Rogers Park, Polvo Arte in Pilsen, In These Times in Logan Square, ACME arts in Bucktown, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Hull House Museum in the West Loop).
- Editorial retreat at the Jane Adams Hull House and Young Chicago Authors with a 15 person advisory group
- Another Chicago, the email newsletter keeping contributors updated with organizational developments of AREA, and announcing the events/activities of our local contributors has been regularly sent since September 2006 to over 800 local subscribers.
-This summer's How We Learn event series brought together hundreds of Chicagoans to nearly 30 events about education, organization and participation. Including presentations by Andrew Gryf Paterson, Josh MacPhee, Feel Tank Chicago, Waite White, Chicagoland Bike Mechanic Orgs, Chicago Underground Library, Mess Hall, Platypus, Free Geek, Chicagoland/Calumet Underground Railroad Efforts, Bronzeville Historical Society, Chicago Women's Health Center, The Odyssey Project, Stephen Haymes, Meredith Haggerty, Lavie Raven, Dave Pabellon, Scott Berzofsky, Dane Nester, Nicholas Wisniewski, Jesse Seay, Lou Mallozzi, Christina Kubisch Daniel, Kunle/Holger Lauinger, John Dewey, Charlie Vinz, Material Exchange, Nance Klehm, Vocalo.org Producers, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Counter Cartography Collective, and Kristen Cox of Fire This Time Fund.
- Workshops related to publishing and AREA have been developed for teenage contributors at the Howard Area Alternative High School and with the Young Chicago Authors organization. Numerous educators are using AREA texts in their after school program, high school and university classrooms.
-Lectures by about AREA have been presented at national and international conferences including Artivistic (Montreal), ReActivism (Central European University Budapest), 16beaver Group (New York), National Conference on Organized Resistance (Washington DC), Planners Network (University of Illinois Chicago), UCLA's Department of Urban Planning (Los Angeles), Syracuse University, and in numerous university seminars throughout Chicago at DePaul, Loyola, UIC, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
-AREA's mapping endeavor "Notes for a Peoples Atlas of Chicago" has been exhibited in such places as Columbia College's A+D Gallery, the Hyde Park Art Center, UIC's Gallery 400 and the Museum of Contemporary Art.