Posts Tagged 'meet your city'

Graphic novels have proved themselves a fertile genre for repackaging history for young people—urban history in particular.

The Chicago Tribune's architecture critic, Blair Kamin, says "No Small Plans" delivers an important message for adults as well as the students who are its chief intended audience: Be sure to take note of, and participate in, the design decisions that affect your life.

Fostering civic engagement among Chicago’s young people is no small task, and the Chicago Architecture Foundation has “No Small Plans” to tackle it.

The graphic novel shakes up the format of the civic primer with illustrations and characters that jump off the page.

No Small Plans looks to the past to examine the present and imagine a future metropolis.

In the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s educational graphic novel “No Small Plans,” teens – past, present and future – traipse through Chicago neighborhoods to ponder some big questions: What makes a community?

Artist, illustrator and educator Devin Mawdsley knew it was time to create an arts collective when he heard about the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s plan to create a new educational graphic novel for local high school students.

The new book No Small Plans is designed to close the civic education gap by encouraging young people to get involved in their communities.

Civic education has always been a priority in Chicago, as a city that prides itself in its political involvement and civic engagement. Yet it has only recently become a requirement for Chicago's students.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation hit its fundraising goal with 25 days left.

The graphic novel No Small Plans aims to empower the city’s youth through stories about their neighborhoods.

Drawing on Chicago's international reputation for architecture and its comparatively lesser-known—but no less sterling—history of comics culture, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is putting the finishing ink on a unique new venture.

To help engage students and help generate interest in architecture in younger audiences, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has teamed up with a group of artists to produce a graphic novel that explores the past, present, and even the future of Chicago architecture.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation’s new graphic novel reimagines Wacker’s Manual through stories of youth who live here.

Listen in as Gabrielle Lyon, CAF’s Vice President of Education and Experience, introduces both 1911’s Wacker Manual—an urban planning guide aimed at Chicago's youth—and CAF’s plan to revive the classic textbook as an inspiring graphic novel.