Archeworks

MISSION

Archeworks mission is to use the power of design to challenge social, cultural and environmental challenges in Chicago. We do this by providing educational programs and creating collaborative design projects with our students, our members and the people of the communities we serve.


STUDIO
Archeworks conducts and oversees research in many capacities. This multidisciplinary research think-tank engages areas beyond design that influence the social climate that we design within: education, policy, media, technology, waste streams, energy. This team deepens the focus, precision and impact potential for our projects.

SCHOOL
Archeworks offers a postgraduate certificate that focuses on the skills, techniques and implementation of Public Interest Design: identifying opportunity, engaging a collective audience, convincing and testing ideas, and making design an agent of change. Through a vast network of industry experts, civic leaders, award winning practitioners and successful social entrepreneurs, students are given the tools and access to make a difference in the world, and the accountability to do so.

CAMPUS
Archeworks operates Chicago Complex, a satellite campus for national and international universities. This academic consortium for advanced urban studies utilizes the Chicago metropolitan area as a laboratory for contemporary cultural production. Students from diverse areas, nationalities and backgrounds bring a balanced and unbiased dialogue around some of Chicago’s most pressing social dilemmas, often exposing latent challenges and finding promising solutions.