Location: The Pedway / Marina City
Organizers: Satya Basu (M.Arch'15, AIADO, SAIC), Nicole Bitler Kuehnle (PhD candidate, Ecology and Evolution, UChicago) and Troy Pieper (MA'15, New Arts Jornalism, SAIC)
Guiding Topics: Microcosms / Utopias / Things in things
Attendees: Alejandro Acierto, Satya Basu, Mallory James, Nicole Bitler Kuehnle, Kera Mackenzie, Troy Pieper, Nicoletta Rousseva, Tina Tahir, Richard Williamson; Marissa Lee Benedict (Program Coordinator, Arts, Science & Culture, UChicago), Jaclyn Jakunski (Research Associate, Earl & Brenda Shapiro Center, SAIC)
Schedule:
10:00 AM Pedway tour led by Satya Basu
12:30 PM Tour of Marina City with Nicol Chervenak (Architect and Marina City resident)
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows entering the Pedway under Block 37 (State St and Washington St).
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Mallory James taking photos of an exhibition of Victorian stained glass windows in the Pedway.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Richard Williamson taking photos of an exhibition of Victorian stained glass windows in the Pedway.
Casino cards scattered across from the Macy's enterance to the Pedway.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Nicole Bitler (left) and Nicoletta Rousseva (right) through one of the many sets of heavy glass doors and rotating entrances that characterize the Pedway.
A section of the Pedway cutting above lower Wacker and connecting to the northern edge of Maggie Daley Park.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Tina Tahir (left) and Kera Mackenzie (right) talk with Jaclyn Jackunski in a brightly colored segement of the Pedway.
Exiting the Pedway, a brief walk above ground, north and west to Marina City.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Richard Williamson (left) and Nicole Bitler (right) on the roof of the west Marina City tower.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Kera Mackenzie taking photos of the Chicago loop from the roof of Marina City.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Troy Pieper taking photos of the Chicago loop from the roof of Marina City, looking south.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows asking questions of Nicol Chervenak, an architect and Marina City resident.
Touring the ninteenth floor storage units of Marina City.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Richard Williamson and Kera Mackenzie looking out of the windows of the west Marina City tower.
Laundry rooms on the ninteenth floor of Marina City (pictured Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellow Alejandro Acierto).
Architect and Marina City resident Nicol Chervenak shows the Fellows some historical photos of Marina City under construction.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows Mallory James (left), Troy Pieper (middle) and Kera Mackenzie (right) looking out of the windows of the west Marina City Tower.
Compact valet parking for Marina City towers.
Plaques designed for the doors of Marina City residents (not original).
Nicol Chervenak shows the Fellows the original promotional materials designed for marketing apartment units in Marina City.
Field Trip / Field Notes/ Field Guide Fellows (left to right) Alejandro Acierto, Richard Williamson, Nicole Bitler and Kera Mackenzie.
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