Illinois Tech Day

The Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) and Chicago Humanities welcome Chicagoans to the Bronzeville neighborhood campus—a design epicenter on the South Side and the birthplace of human-centered design—for a full day of programs, speakers and interactive installations. In addition to providing audiences provocative ideas from leading thinkers, attendees will experience the world’s largest concentration of buildings designed by legendary architect Mies van der Rohe.

Interactive Experiences at Illinois Tech

The Gumball Project – The Pullman Strike by JB Daniel

Chicago artist JB Daniel brings his compelling installation of modified gumball machines that showcase the people, their roles, and stories of the historic Pullman labor strike of 1894.

10:30am-7pm

Help Each Other Project by JB Daniel

This interactive installation art project began during the pandemic with a simple goal and message: Help Each Other. The project altruistically promotes only this one empathetic message with no other political agenda or affiliation attached.

10:30am-7pm

South Side Home Movie Project

University of Chicago professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Jacqueline Stewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project to collect, preserve, digitize, exhibit and research small-gauge home movies made by residents of Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.

9:30am-7pm

Clamor & Lace Noise Brigade

A FREE 8pm Pop-up Music Performance Outside Hermann Hall following Kathleen Hanna.

Clamor & Lace Noise Brigade is Chicago’s first street marching band composed solely of musicians and performers of marginalized genders. Clamor & Lace collaborates with musicians, dancers and artists of all backgrounds and skill levels to create joyful, raucous and high-energy performances.

The Floating Museum – The Garden

Floating Museum is an art collective that creates new models: exploring relationships between art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Using site-responsive art, design, and programming we explore the potential in these relationships, considering the infrastructure, history, and aesthetics of a space.

10am-5pm