Center for Urban Transformation

See Potential: helping us all envision the rebirth of abandoned buildings on the South Side.

See Potential in what’s around us. That’s the goal of photographer Emily Schiffer’s See Potential initiative: affixing huge weatherproof photographic works to undervalued community assets. It’s a great idea that can help harness the public imagination for the greater good. It’s the sort of greater good that Schiffer always hoped her art would serve. She…

February 1, 2012

ayanacontreras

Arts & Culture, Commentary, Lack Versus Fat, Photography

Center for Urban Transformation, Chicago, community activism, community building, emily schiffer, gladys’ luncheonette chicago, Kickstarter, lack versus fat, Orrin Williams, photography, see potential, urban planning
Growing Home: reclaiming the earth beneath the concrete.

I’m itching for spring. Here in Chicago, the weather has been mercifully mild… Visions of a vegetable and herb garden in my backyard dance in my head. I am swooning over Kale and Basil! But dreams of building up my South Side neighborhood (through green jobs, better food, and economic empowerment) dance, too. I’m a…

January 27, 2012

ayanacontreras

Lack Versus Fat, the Goodness

Center for Urban Transformation, Chicago, community gardens, gardening, Growing Home, Kitchen garden, localism, Orrin Williams, South Chicago, South Side Chicago, Urban Agriculture