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New Monuments for New Cities was the inaugural project of the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, a new collaboration between infrastructure reuse projects in North America. For the exhibition, five urban reuse projects that are part of the High Line Network invited five of their local artists or artist groups to create proposals (in the form of posters) for new monuments. The artists in the exhibition designed monuments, both possible and impossible to build, that question the format itself and envision its future. Each participating location produced an exhibition of the resulting 25 artworks specific to their site. The Trust for Public Land and The Chicago Park District, who jointly manage the 606 park and trail system in Chicago, worked with a Management Studio student team and the neighborhood organizations participating in the project, including the American Indian Center, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, Grow Greater Englewood, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, to curate, design, install, host and program the exhibition.
For the Fall Semester, the Management Studio student team focused primarily on developing the exhibition design plan for the 4.3-mile installation. After gaining unanimous approval from leadership of the 606 Trail and Highline Network for their highly innovative exhibition design concept, the team spent the Spring Semester creating and overseeing the installation plan and budget, collaborating on plans for public programming, coordinating opening event activities, and designing marketing and social media materials. Check out HERE to learn more about the project. |