Join us and Goethe-Institut for an interdisciplinary symposium on land justice and the commons. Topics include an Indigenous history of Chicago; the ideological underpinnings of the idea of ‘the commons’ and its application in Europe and the US; how urban farms become microcosms for new social worlds; and how civil rights law can combat environmental racism.

Speakers include: Daniel Loick, Associate Professor in Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam; Juanita Irizarry, Executive Director of Friends of the Parks; Nyabweza ‘Bweza’ Itaagi, lead steward of the Englewood Nature Trail, Anthony Tamez-Pochel, co-president of Chi Nations Youth Council, and others.

The event will conclude with a plant and seed swap and is free and open to the public.

This symposium is organized in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Bubbly Dynamics LLC.