#archeworks

Gather Give Grow, Archeworks, 2010, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

In these projects Archeworks and MRVDV proposed alternative interventions (focused on issues such as local food) in the fabric of urban space and experience. Gather Give Grow is a short animation highlighting Archeworks’s Mobile Food Collective—a proposal showcased in the US Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the 2010 Venice Biennale. Aware of the social, economic, and health benefits associated with local food, Archeworks designed a family of flexible mobile structures intended to support local food production. Gift of Archeworks Medium: Animation

Mobile Food Collective Model, Archeworks, 2010, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Gift of Archeworks Size: 7.6 × 121.9 × 61 cm (3 × 48 × 24 in.) Medium: Brass and plastic

Bringing People to the Table, Archeworks, 2011, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Written, designed, and published by Archeworks, a Chicago alternative design school founded by architects Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox in 1993, Bringing Food to the Table tells the story of the collaborative design process that launched Archeworks’s Mobile Food Collective (MFC), a fleet of bike-operated modular food carts. The MFC is an interactive project that partners with the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago to engage communities across the city in a more participatory food culture through collaborative exchange and urban agriculture education related to sustainable local food production and preparation. This publication also traces the group’s journey from Chicago to the 2010 Venice Biennale. Gift of Archeworks Size: 18 × 18 × 1.3 cm (7 1/16 × 7 1/16 × 1/2 in.) Medium: Book

You’re invited to our OPEN HOUSE HOUSE PARTY! Learn about new partnerships and design initiatives in 2015-16 including the Postgraduate Certificate in Public Interest Design program and our newly launched, ChicagoComplex. Meet our new executive director and team and connect with other designers. Discover how to get involved while enjoying drinks and appetizers! July 30th from 6-9PM ARCHEWORKS 625 N. Kingsbury Chicago, IL 60654 RSVP Here

http://www.archeworks.org/event_Lectures.cfm?lecture=ErikaAllen

Closing the Loop: Planning and Implementation of Community Food Systems

Ms. Allen will present a series of projects exploring the intersection of community food systems and design. Her talk with center on new multidisciplinary strategies for implementing good food production, in Chicago and nationally, and incorporating social justice and economic development into urban agriculture frameworks.

Erika Allen is Projects Manager at Growing Power Chicago. Her specialties include project planning; community food systems design; direct marketing training; advising limited resource producers on farm business development,; and working in partnerships to create healthy and diverse food options in inner city and rural communities. Her recent work includes launching the Chicago Food Policy Council, where she serves as co-chair. Erika also serves as civic co-chair for The City of Chicago's Chicago Organic Initiative's Education, Training and Schools subcommittee.

The daughter of Growing Power founder Will Allen, Erika spent her formative years involved in all aspects of farm management. Years of experience working in urban communities with art education and social service have brought her full circle back to her farming roots. Integrating creative and therapeutic techniques with food security and community development have led her to establish four urban agriculture and food system projects in Chicago. Erika received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master's in art therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.