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Claiming Space: Creative Grounds
In 2013, the City of Chicago closed and consolidated 49 Chicago Public Schools (CPS). More than 3 million square feet of public school space became designated as “under-utilized” or “under-performing” and was turned back over to the City of Chicago for resale or repurposing. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum partnered with Creative Grounds, led by architectural urban designer, Paola Aguirre and artist Sara Pooley, to document and make visible the statuses of closed, sold, non-utilized and merged West Side Chicago Public Schools. Through an interactive mapping installation, Creative Grounds visualized the impacted landscape and the affected communities, contemplate their enormity and reflect on possibilities for the future.