Instead of reaching towards the sky, this project and new infrastructure enables Chicago to reach for new horizons. The Chicago Institute for Land Generation is established to produce and oversee the process. Once banished to make way for the picturesque natural “other” that now garnishes the river, this proposal brings a new industry and production economy to the shoreline of Chicago. The product of this new economy will be land that is outside the current political boundary of the city and un-tethered to any region or territory. It is the foundation for new societies and political scenarios to begin.
Contesting Limits
by Suzy HarrisBrandts
Soft Progressivism: Salvaging Architecture’s Brutal Soft Power
by Scott Colman
Sonic Urbanism/Towards a New Urban Sound
by Shannon Werle
Dredge
by Stephen Becker, Rob Holmes, Tim Maly, Brett Milligan
SKY_NET: A Power Migration Network
by Jared Winchester
Knowledge Cultivation
by Nicholas Musser
Be Alarmed
by Leigha Dennis
A FLOATING ROOM
by STUDIOGRUBER. Team: Stefan Gruber, Gilbert Berthold, Michael Schultes (pneumatic consultant)
Undamming the Dutch Delta
by Kimberly Garza and Sarah Thomas
The Soft Energy Controversy
by Rania Ghosn
Signal Space: New York’s Soft Frequency Terrains
by Michael Chen; Maps by Michael Chen and Justin Snider
Scaffolding City; Architectural Utopia of the Future Past
by Edward Dodington
SOFT HOUSE
by KVA MATx, MIT SOFT CITIES research, Jan Knippers/ King Advanced Engineering, ILEK Stuttgart, Buro Happold and a consortium of European building industry partners.
Soft Culture Machines
by Ewan Branda, Woodbury University & UCLA
Landscapes of co-option: soft power and the environmental turn in corporate America
by Dan Handel
Soft goes hard
by Kathy Velikov, Geoffrey Thun, Colin Ripley
SURVEILLER ET DIVERTIR _ Discipline and entertain
by Pietro Pezzani
Aqua_Dermis: A Proposal for Climate Adaptive Comfort
by Mariela De Felix
ESP // Estuary Services Pipeline
by Bionic- Marcel Wilson
Kinetic Backbone
by Leigh Salem
The Fog, The Fish, and The Wave
by Marianna de Cola
Buoyant Light
by Claire Lubell, Virginia Fernandez
GROUNDING: Landslide Mitigation Housing
by Jared Winchester / Viktor Ramos
Of Pop and Prostheses: Vienna 1965-72
by Jon Cummings
Weather Station
by Anca Matyiku
Arctic Opening
by fabric | ch - office for architecture, interaction & research
Dredge Locked
by Alex Yuen
Chicago Institute of Land Generation
by Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer
The Bladders
by Jonathan Walker
City Tickets
by Mayo Nissen
Anticipatory Architecture: Reyner Banham and Technological Futurism in Postwar and Contempoary Desig
by Chris Perry
ShapeShift
by Supervisor: Manuel Kretzer; Students: Edyta Augustynowicz, Sofia Georgakopulou, Dino Rossi, Stefanie Sixt
iMobile
by Office of Mobile Design: A Jennifer Siegal Company