The document contains summaries of 9 different student projects related to exploring ideas and interactions in the city of Chicago: 1. Chelsea Mather wrote questions on sticky notes around Chicago to interact with passersby and affect their thoughts. 2. Zoe Knight's zine "Snippets" contains repurposed texts and images from the public to understand conversations in the city. 3. Thomas Almores' sculpture depicts brands competing for attention by having people carry advertisements while climbing the Sears Tower. 4. Andrew Zion's project draws viewers into an ongoing narrative about mural erasure and censorship of controversial opinions. 5. Delaney Morrison collected Vincentian elements around DePaul's campus to

1. Chelsea Mather
“We think and feel constantly. There is no
off button, and we can only filter out so
much of how the world outside our heads
affects us… For this project, I wanted to
look at these temporary effects and how
they stick by taking this concept out into
the city. By writing questions on sticky
notes and leaving them around Chicago as
my own form of public marginalia, I
created texts with the potential to interact
with passerby and affect their thoughts in
some way.”

2. Zoe Knight
“Snippets is a zine that consists solely of repurposed text and images… Snippets
functions as a theme in two ways; one, the content is literally snipped out texts gathered
from the Chicago public. Two, the content mirrors the snips of conversation that traverse
the public on a daily basis. In order to understand a space, it is important to understand
what is being said, what is being printed, and what is being remembered.”

3. Thomas Almores
The overall idea of this sculpture was to
depict the ways brands, and their
advertising, compete with one another in
order to be in the spotlight of our
attention… Advertisements with greater
controversy sit more prominently in our
minds. In this sculpture, I’ve depicted the
Sears Tower being climbed by many
people carrying advertisements as
banners on their backs.”

4. Andrew Zion
“My project aims to draw the viewer into an ongoing narrative in the city… With an
ongoing problem of mural erasure, local and often disenfranchised artists are exposed
to the violence of silence, the discrimination of having their values and controversial
opinions censored through the washing of their public works. I intend to show the viewer
examples of what is lost when people decide to remove or detest that which they may
not understand..”

5. Delaney Morrison
“This is a collection of various Vincentian elements
that can be found on and around DePaul
University’s Lincoln Park Campus. The University
has a very rich connection to its Vincentian
heritage but it often goes unknown by most of the
university community. This project hopes to
illuminate those connections and bring the
Vincentian mission into the lives of the DePaul
community in 2019 Chicago.”

6. Joe Weiss
“This exhibit is meant to make you think about your experiences on the El. Not just think
about them, but consider them and think about how they have shaped your views on
Chicago. We often think about the El as just transportation, but it is much more than that.
It is the connecting infrastructure of the entire city.”

7. James Langford
“This collection of images is a snapshot of the
conversation surrounding the upcoming
retail/residential mega developments that will
likely break ground in the city this year. It can
sometimes be difficult to hear one’s own voice
amidst all of the noise on Twitter and in the
news. Our own thoughts and opinion are diluted by
the propagandized media that we are
constantly spoonfed. Some voices are artificially
amplified and others are deliberately silenced.”