Citywide Interview, Be Part of the Converation

by AREA | Published July 23, 2010

As AREA issue #10 — Institutions and Infrastructure — moves toward the production phase, readying for an October 1 release, we are canvassing our community for a few more items to help round out the issue.

Please respond FAST or not at all to one or more of these survey questions: we'll take responses of 200 words or less sent to AREAeditors@gmail.com by August 1.

Two of the questions are new:

Libraries. What's a usual or unusual use you've made of a public library in Chicago?

People's institutions. What people's institution in this city is dearest to your heart? I.e., the one would you be saddest to see disappear? Why? (People's institutions might include community organizations, longstanding mobilizing efforts, alternative art spaces, social experiments — see our web previews of issue 10 for examples.)

Two have been sent out before:

Chicago Activists of Faith. How do the principles and practices of your faith community bring you to social and political movements in Chicago? Please provide examples. We are interested in better understanding the role religious organizations play in promoting the social well-being of local communities beyond their own, and how they might offer models of partnership, collaboration, and resource sharing that secular groups could learn from.

Community Cultural Center. Why does Chicago need a new community cultural center that will facilitate city-wide networking and community—and movement—building? Where would you imagine this place being located, and what are some things that might happen there? For examples, see "What Does Citywide Movement Building Look Like?".