MUSE Community + Design is #hiring a full-time SAFE (Streets Are For Everyone) Ambassador to support the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT). SAFE Ambassadors represent CDOT in its efforts to support and promote active transportation and other traffic safety initiatives. This is a great opportunity for someone who is outgoing and passionate about safe streets and active transportation! Starting salary is $57,200. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gyVrJwyw
MUSE Community + Design
Architecture and Planning
Chicago, Illinois 1,724 followers
MUSE Community + Design provides creative and inspiring solutions to improve places for people.
About us
Muse Community + Design is a Chicago-based urban planning and public engagement firm that helps clients make inspired changes to improve their communities. Muse creates the policies, plans, and regulations that enable aspirations to become reality. By employing a people-focused approach, Muse devises realistic, tailored solutions that celebrate communities’ unique assets.
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http://musecommunitydesign.com
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- Architecture and Planning
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
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- Self-Owned
- Specialties
- urban planning, land use planning, community engagement, downtown planning, neighborhood planning, zoning, design guidelines, entitlements, community outreach, and comprehensive planning
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Fiona Kennedy and Kennedy Causby popped up at City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College yesterday to promote the second year of #CityCivicsDay! Our women-led dream team - including Blue Daring, Gabriela Jirasek, Maria L., and Amanda Carlson - is designing another thoughtful and interactive day of civic engagement for our city. Save the date: Saturday, November 9, 2024, and sign up for updates at chicago.gov/CityCivicsDay.
Assistant Commissioner, Community and Digital Engagement at Chicago Department of Planning and Development
I’m excited to share #CityCivicsDay is returning on Nov. 9, 2024 at Malcom X College! You’re invited to a free, day-long celebration of civic involvement and community connection. Yesterday we launched our outreach campaign at City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College. Thanks to Aziza Darwish for the connection! Learn more and sign up for alerts at Chicago.gov/CityCivicsDay. This is a collaboration between the Chicago Department of Planning and Development and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). Thank you to the incredible team making this happen! Amanda Carlson, Maria L., MUSE Community + Design, Blue Daring
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We're looking forward to supporting Territory NFP and the Territory Internship for Design Equity (TIDE) interns next week as they complete their summer project. TIDEs spent their summer researching and interviewing the community to influence their design project and will unveil the final design of a memorial to Austin's "pink house" on Thursday, August 8. We hope to see some of our friends and partners there!
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Last weekend the MUSE Senior Associates Chelsa Moore and Dhara Shah supported an activation at Hatcher Park in Gary, IN, that included a site walk and story circles with devoted long-time CITY OF GARY INDIANA residents. Named after former Gary Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, one of our country's first Black mayors of a city with more than 100,000 residents, the park has been neglected for more than two decades. A project led by National Audubon Society - Great Lakes is reimagining Hatcher Park, and MUSE is supporting community partners' efforts to develop a vision for the park's future.
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MUSE's work on the Chicago Park Disrtict Washington Park Framework Plan, with National Audubon Society Great Lakes in Gary, IN, and with Trust for Public Land to map a comprehensive vision for the Major Taylor Trail has our team talking a lot about the importance of natural spaces within urban settings. Investing in routes - like the Major Taylor Trail - that connect people to nature is a critical way to support more positive mental and physical health outcomes, and to help us see our communities differently. Keith Holt of the Major Taylor Cycling Club describes urban nature well in this WBEZ Chicago podcast about the trail and its namesake: "There is industry, there is meadow, there is steel in my urban nature. There is water, there is concrete, there is grass. All of these things exist, and then there are also people." https://lnkd.in/gVW8dwif
Chicago’s Major Taylor bike trail celebrates a trailblazing American cyclist
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MUSE's SAFE Ambassadors Sam Frolichstein-Appel and Lizeth S. have contributed to connecting over 2,000 Chicagoans with new bikes and gear through the Bike Chicago initiative. We look forward to continuing to work with Chicago Department of Transportation, community partners, and recipients to improve mobility and transportation access in Chicago! https://lnkd.in/eaWWRC66
Chicago’s Unique Bike Giveaway Program Is a Win for Mobility Justice
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We're proud supporters of Territory NFP and excited to host TIDE interns for the second summer in a row. Thanks to LBBA Architects for your leadership in designing a meaningful experience for the interns and hosts!
Say hello to our 2024 TIDE lab interns! The Internship for Design Equity Lab (TIDE Lab) is a collaborative educational program hosted by Territory NFP, La Casa Norte, LBBA Labs, MUSE Community + Design, and The Walsh Group - Walsh Construction & Archer Western. Our interns will not only gain valuable experience working in construction and design office settings but also improve on essential career-building skills such as research, communication, and presentation. In partnership with La Casa Norte and TIDE Lab partners, the interns will research Chicago's current homelessness issue to destigmatize the experiences of those with unstable housing and the supportive services that assist them. Their insights will ultimately inform a development that will be added to Territory’s community space in the heart of the Austin neighborhood. In these first few weeks, the interns attended a kick-off dinner at the Lamar Johnson Collaborative office and visited each partner site to get familiar with their niches. Stay tuned for more updates throughout the summer!
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Heading to Transport Chicago tomorrow? Don't miss our colleague Stephanie Nappa's session with Calvin Graham from TY Lin international ltd about their work supporting Chicago Department of Transportation's rollout of new bike routes to create neighborhood and citywide bike networks. Steph and Calvin will share insights into how the department's "plan-gineers" balance community input, best practices, and the fiscal and physical constraints across diverse communities.
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Congratulations to MUSE friend and partner Lesle Honore on presale of her new book Brown Girl, Brown Girl!
It’s finally here !!!! Brown Girl, Brown Girl is available for preorder everywhere books are sold ! Thank you to my agent Johanna Castillo For finding me and believing in me To my editors Farrin Jacobs and Deirdre Jones You’ve made my dreams real Thank you Cozbi Cabrera for your breathtaking art Thank you Little, Brown Young Readers for knowing that every human that identifies as a Brown girl deserves to open a book and see themselves To my family, friends and followers, thank you for your love and faith To my dragons, thank you for giving me purpose And to my Daddy, Louis Honore Sr. who would have been 85 years old today Thank you for giving me the love of books and stories, this was your dream just as much as it is mine Happy Birthday *Brown Girl, Brown Girl what do you see ? I see an Author who looks like me * #BrownGirlBrownGirl #BuyMyBookPlease #ClickTheLink 👇🏽 https://a.co/d/3Q0Nh1g
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Who said the first day on the job has to include sitting around completing paperwork? Kennedy Causby, our newest MUSE, spent her first day on a site tour in the Calumet Industrial Corridor on Chicago's South Side. Kennedy is a recent UIUC graduate who we have gotten to know over the years through APA-IL conferences and UIUC Student Planning Organization activities. We're still pinching ourselves that she's officially our colleague!
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