Moving Design is a coalition of designers and artists, working with community partners, leading initiatives that inspire change through the power of design. We use creativity as a catalyst for change, moving our community to action.
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C2A: Bicycle Safety
This Summer 2011, Moving Design will initiate their next call to action around bicycle safety in Chicago. Focusing on Logan Square and transforming it into Chicago’s first hub for safe, active mobility, where pedestrians and bikers rule.
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Tabula Rasa
Moving Design facilitated a six-week workshop with 24 interdisciplinary University of Illinois students to research and imagine the digital book’s future potential as a tool for education and expression. How far can the digital book go?
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C2A: Water
Moving Design heralded a Call to Action, bringing together a coalition of the brightest designers for a six-week workshop, to inspire new stewards of our water resources. How can design engage, inform, and activate Chicagoans to care about where our water comes from and where it goes?
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G.O.D.
Moving Design and Archeworks propose a new, permanent urban infrastructure where the activity of farming is the epicenter of urban culture called Garden Oriented Development, or G.O.D.
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One Drop
Moving Design received Sappi’s 2010 Ideas That Matter Grant to develop curriculum for the Chicago Public Library to engage Chicago’s youth in a stronger appreciation for our water resources. How do we instill a sense of stewardship in the next generation?
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2019
Moving Design invited 18 students from Northern Illinois University to define and visualize the story of our culture 10 years from now. What does the future look like? What does the future feel like?