Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
Role: Curator/Exhibit Designer
Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
Lawndale Pop-Up Spot
The Festival celebrates cultural heritage and amplifies solidarity among the Jewish community who lived in North Lawndale historically, the predominantly Black community that resides there today, and the broader Chicago community. During the Festival days, the landscape of unique sukkah structures is activated with cross-cultural public programming, co-organized with the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot, bringing together intersectional pairings of neighborhood groups After the Festival, each sukkah is relocated and permanently re-installed at the facilities of the community organizations that co-designed them, as vibrant new program spaces; for example, as a garden pergola, rooftop playscape, heritage museum, meditation pavilion, community memorial, and tool library.
The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival is co-hosted by Could Be Design and the Lawndale Pop-Up Spot.
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