About this Event
The Everything Chicago Symposium is a one-day public event at the Driehaus Museum that brings together architects, designers, students, educators, and community leaders to explore how design can shape a more just and imaginative future for the city. Throughout the day, the program will highlight leading Chicago practices and visionary ideas, sharing work that responds to pressing urban challenges and expands our collective imagination. It will also engage directly with architecture schools and academic leaders to examine how the studio, as a space of experimentation and inquiry, influences the city and helps shape what comes next. Together, these conversations offer meaningful opportunities for the public to learn, reflect, and actively participate in envisioning Chicago’s future.
9:00 AM — Welcome
Coffee, conversation, and opening remarks
9:30 AM — Common Chicago: Public Space
Ideas for reimagining shared urban life
10:30 AM — Revitalizing Downtown Roundtable Discussion
Visions for the city’s core and its future
11:30 AM — Common Chicago: Infrastructure
Designing the systems that hold the city together
12:30 PM — Lunch
1:30 PM — Common Chicago: Civic Buildings
Rethinking the public institutions that shape community
2:30 PM — From the Studio to the City Panel Discussion
Academic visions and experiments shaping Chicago
3:30 PM — Common Chicago: Collective Space
Designing for connection, collaboration, and belonging
5:00 PM — Reception
A celebratory close to a day of ideas and dialogue
This event is presented in collaboration with the Driehaus Museum.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 50 East Erie Street, Chicago, United States
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