Contributors for “The Available City” Announced by Chicago Architecture Biennial

David Brown, the artistic director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) has announced the contributors for the 2021 edition. The Biennial’s fourth edition is the theme “The Available City.”

As is being said, “The Available City” will explore the impacts collective space can have in cities today. In this edition, Brown will present a comprehensive framework on both local and international projects and practices that reflect new concepts for shared space and collective agency in the city.

An initial list of 29 contributors has been revealed, who bring design perspectives from cities around the world such as Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dublin, Paris, Basel, and Tokyo.

These global design innovators will be paired with local community groups from Chicago to explore forms of shared, collective space and inspire new and imaginative uses of vacant spaces in the city.

The installations, activations, exhibits, projects, and programs will be shared with the public in neighborhoods across Chicago and on digital platforms when the Biennial opens on September 17, 2021.

_{CAB Artistic Director David Brown}

The list of 2021 CAB contributors can be seen below:

Ana Miljački (Critical Broadcasting Lab at MIT), Boston

Ania Jaworska, Chicago

Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo

Borderless Studio, Chicago

Central Park Theater Restoration Committee, Chicago

Christophe Hutin Architecture, Bordeaux

Departamento del Distrito, Mexico City

Drawing Architecture Studio, Beijing

El Cielo, Mexico City

Englewood Nature Trail, Chicago

Enlace Arquitectura + Ciudad Laboratorio, Caracas

fala, Porto

Gensler (Stone Soup Group), Los Angeles + Chicago

Hood Design Studio, Oakland

in care of Black women, Chicago

Jill Desimini, Cambridge

Matri-Archi(tecture), Basel + Cape Town

Open Architecture Chicago + Under the Grid, Chicago

Outpost Office, Columbus Port, Chicago + Philadelphia

ProjectHOOD, Chicago

Riff Studio, New York City

Soil Lab, Copenhagen + Dublin

studioAPT, Ann Arbor

Studio Barnes with Shawhin Roudbari and MAS Context, Miami

Studio Ossidiana, Rotterdam + Venice

The Bittertang Farm, Clearing, Chicago + Island Center, Bainbridge Island

THE OPEN WORKSHOP, San Francisco + Toronto

Urban American City, New York City

To read further details, please visit: https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/edition/2021