How One Community-Minded Designer Is Tapping the Potential of Chicago’s Vacant Lots
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With Grids + Griots, Charlotte, North Carolina–based Sekou Cooke Studio reconfigured a 40-foot long shipping container into components that help activate an adjacent bike repair and sales shop run by the youth leadership organization YMEN (Young Men’s Educational Network). The installation integrates elements such as raised planters, bicycle storage, walkways, gathering areas, and informal retail booths.