MAPPED (Making A People's Pathway for Engaging Design) is a digital library dedicated to documenting Chicago’s community projects—built, envisioned, or planned. This transparent, organized, and accessible index of Chicago’s community spaces showcases resources for communities to advance their design and planning initiatives by mapping ideas, projects, people, plans, and organizations. 

Since MAPPED was launched to the public, we have hosted various workshops with residents, community organizations, and institutions across Chicago to continue to build out the database of community projects published on the platform.

These gatherings, called MAPPED-a-thons, bring together community members, design enthusiasts, planners, and various other individuals to input project information and work alongside us to fulfill our mission of making design more transparent, accessible, and equitable.

Click here to explore the MAPPED database.

To date, we’ve partnered with numerous individuals and organizations to host both virtual and in person MAPPED-a-thons across Chicago.

15+

partner organizations

50+

volunteers

60+

projects mapped

Booth Hansen

Chi Hack Night

Latent Design

School of the Art Institute Chicago

Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party

Design for America

ACE Mentoring

CannonDesign

NeighborSpace

Illinois Institute of Technology

PORT Urbanism

University of Chicago

Territory Chicago

Free Spirit Media

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Booth Hansen Chi Hack Night Latent Design School of the Art Institute Chicago Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party Design for America ACE Mentoring CannonDesign NeighborSpace Illinois Institute of Technology PORT Urbanism University of Chicago Territory Chicago Free Spirit Media School of the Art Institute of Chicago


Want to add your organization to our list of partners or get involved in a different way?

  • Attend our next MAPPED-a-thon on [date]! These events are free and open to the public.

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  • We are always looking for partners to collaborate with us to host in person or virtual MAPPED-a-thons. We love creative partnerships and themes, and you’re welcome to host an event in your space, ours, or somewhere different. If you’re interested in collaborating with us, reach out to hello@designtrustchicago.org.

  • Want to get involved in another capacity? No problem! Reach out to hello@designtrustchicago.org.