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Austin 2.0

2021
Chicago Architecture Biennial

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Chicago’s Austin neighborhood

Commission

Chicago Architecture Biennial with Polk Bros Foundation

Scope and Approach

Meeting online only, 12 Austin teens developed six placemaking strategies for reclaiming city owned residential lots on the blocks where they live. Creating spaces for community play at the hyper-local level is an urban design strategy that addresses youth empowerment, public safety, and mental health one block at a time. Territory design teams hope to prototype Austin 2.0 in summer 2022.

Stakeholders

Austin teens, My Chi My Future Austin Steering Committee, Austin Forward Together Youth Empowerment Task Force

Budget

$12,5000

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Working in public, Territory youth collaborate with community partners, city agencies, artists, architects and planners as they develop their ideas from vision to reality