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A CHANGING SPACE: South Side

Lauren Darby, B.F.A. Dept of Design, CMU

A historic overview of the shifts in access to the rivers, specifically the roads which were sold to industrial interests at the turn of the century.

"Space can not only be described by what it is; it can be described by what it is not. The traces of exclusion, injustice, false consciousness, and repression haunt the spaces in which our homes, parks, and institutions are built. In an image/spectacle society, these traces are often unseen, covered by advertisements or bulldozed for condominiums."

Curators Statement, A Haunted Landscape, The School of Art Institute of Chicago