Featured Event:
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Design Charette Exhibit
In November of 2015, students from different Chicago-area graduate programs came together through multidisciplinary intersections. From these intersections sprouted design proposals and strategic plans for the redevelopment of the Maryville properties and abandoned Cuneo Hospital.
We are excited to share these projects with you!
Please join us on Saturday, March 5th for a night in celebration of this beloved Landmark in the community of Uptown. Participants from our peer-led charrette will be present to discuss the ideas in more detail and facilitate conversations about "what could have been."
Exhibition – March 5, 2016
Co-Hosted with CNU Illinois, Friends of Cuneo
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Students for the New Urbanism - Illinois Chapter
Students For The New Urbanism Illinois Chapter includes any and all Graduate Programs interested in working together. You will find updates from meetings we have had here. You can also sign up to our mailing list to get updates on future meetings, events, and collaboration opportunities.
Mission:
Students for The New Urbanism Illinois is a cross disciplinary and intercollegiate platform that bridges the gap between students and places to facilitate community.
Vision:
Students for The New Urbanism is dedicated to empower people to create vital, healthy, and sustainable communities to demonstrate how the quality of urban environments impact our daily lives.
For more information, questions, and comments please contact us at snuillinois@gmail.com.
Intercollegiate Coalition
University of Illinois at Chicago
Judson University
DePaul University
Northwestern University
Your SNU-IL Leadership Team
Lauren Klabunde - Managing Leader and Student Representative to CNU-IL Board
University of Illinois at Chicago
Emmanuel Cortes - Leader
University of Illinois at Chicago
If you are interested in committing to an assigned role, think that your skills could be used in a different way to support a certain event, or you would like to be a part of our Chapter Leadership Team, please contact us at snuillinois@gmail.com
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UPCOMING SNU ILLINOIS EVENTS
Now is the time to start making an impact in our graduate school community. We are looking for bold, action-oriented leaders, diverse collaborators, and creative minds to help plan three different events during fall and spring semesters.
Detailed summaries of upcoming events are at the links below with descriptions of specific roles we think that we need in order to coordinate them successfully. Please Note: Targeted event dates and initial progress have already been established.
A Love Letter Cuneo:An Exhibition of Reuse Ideas for an Underappreciated Landmark
Co-Hosted with CNU Illinois and Friends of Cuneo
Exhibition – March 5, 2016 6pm-10pm
Underscore Theater - 4635 N Clark St., Chicago, IL
Building SNU Community: Firm Crawl
Spring Semester 2016
Morning and afternoon schedules for flexibility
Multible Locations (TBD)
Co-Hosts TBD
Have an awesome event idea for SNU-IL? Please fill out SNU Event Proposal Template document and send it our way!
PREVIOUS SNU ILLINOIS EVENTS
November 2015 - Pop-Up Urban Design Studio
In November, the Illinois Chapter of the Students for the New Urbanism, along with event partners, Friends of Cuneo and the Sports Economy School and co-host CNU Illinois, held the third annual Pop-up Urban Design Studio. The participants included more than 20 planning and healthcare students from DePaul, UIC and Loyola who came together in intercollegiate teams for a 90-minute, peer-led charrette. This year's charrette developed renewal strategies for the abandoned Maryville property and Cuneo Hospital in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The charrette was held at the nearby Clarendon Park Community Center. Melanie Eckner of Friends of Cuneo and Sara Dinges of Uptown United provided feedback on the resulting solutions. Information about the site is available here. Results of the charrette will be available here in early 2016
September 2014 - Pop-Up Urban Design Studio
Along with this year's event co-host, DePaul’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, CNU Illinois and the Illinois Chapter of the Students for the New Urbanism hosted the second annual Pop-up Urban Design Studio enabling planning and design students from DePaul, Judson and UIC to come together in intercollegiate teams for a two-hour, peer-led charrette. This year's charrette developed strategies for the Libby Canning facility brownfield site in Blue Island, Illinois. Information about the charrette site was generously provided by the City of Blue Island and Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology and is available here.
Results of the charrette are available here.
September 2013 - Pop-Up Urban Design Studio
Students from DePaul, Judson, and UIC gathered to create strategic plans for the Barber-Colman factory site in Rockford, Illinois. Representing different fields of study, students collaborated in teams to generate design proposals for the site while adhering to New Urbanist planning theory. The inter-school teams were able to come up with their working plans within a two hour session. Visions included an entertainment hub, an educational community, and an urban-agrarian center. Most importantly, the charrette allowed students from differing fields and colleges to meet, share their knowledge, and learn from each other. Additional information about the charrette and site is here.
Results of the charrette are available here.
March 2013 - Lego Transect Competition
Daniel Englund (right) hunting for "thin red block" while Josh Nieves (center) continues to hoard the buttresses.
This submission represents a landlocked city with each block representing uniquely scaled buildings.
Second prize winner representing a T-2 rural barn with energy efficient technology added. (Note on the whiteboard reads: "In these boxes is my childhood. Please, please, play nicely - Patrick")
This student-led competition focused on using Lego blocks as a tool for micro-scale urbanism. It was up to the individual's discretion to determine the size of their lego module. Some chose to use the lego module to represent brick coursing while others used the module to represent an entire building block. With this in mind, each student was given two rules: represent the idea of an urban transect through the use of lego blocks - and have fun. The two winners were awarded a 3D printed lego block for holding pens/pencils and the top prize was a wood engraved coaster with the city of Florence, Italy etched into it. SNU had many student contributors to help make this event be a success.
Top prize winner Jon Lund with coaster prize and submission representing a T-4 mixed-use retail and housing facade at the street level.
Richard Nichols (right) calmly sifting through the pile of space-legos while Eric Blowers (left) dumps a bin of legos on the table.