Grow Your Vision
Discover and explore The City of Chicago's 1837 adopted motto "Urbs in Horto" (Latin for City in a Garden) growth through snapshot-collage storytelling; a Digital-Desktop Internet Art Style with pictures encompassing a portal-feeling transporting viewers to the natural world location. Covering the community led initiatives, organizations, businesses, current events, and the amazing people behind the work - further learning about the implication's communities face, the barriers that are specific to their group, and how the community is changing their natural history through an inter-web of community support. Explore open-resouce projects on our website - from sections of Environmental Justice history, CTA nature guides, to community resource & organizing maps. I invite you to explore our Instagram page @wearethecityinagarden and open-resource projects in shaping your sense of belonging with the environmental movement in Chicago!
Mission
Discover The City of Chicago's adopted motto "Urbs in Horto" (Latin for City in a Garden) through open resources and curated experiences for you to explore your neighborhoods growing spaces and the environmental movement across Chicago. All while honing in on your intrinsic value through bio-cultural entrepreneurship; utilizing natural resources, culture, and local community support available to you!
Vision
Build sense of belonging within the environmental movement in Chicago and find your place in the world!
Slogan
"We are the city in a garden" (eng)
"Somos los urbs in horto" (span)
Programs
Nature Based Workshops/Teach-ins
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Creative Garden Series: Centering art practices to re-imagine garden resources and the opportunities that lay beneath its surface to grow individually!
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Business Through Nature Series: Explores entrepreneurial trades through sustainable practices.
Nature Based Community Resources
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Community Connections Map: An open access map of nature-based groups organizing across Chicago's neighborhoods.
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CTA Nature Guides: A quick community guide to local green spaces nearby / accessible through the CTA line.
Snapshot-collage Storytelling
@wearethecityinagarden
A digital art-scape of an exploration into Chicago Environmental movement; where each post encompasses a collage of pictures taken of an explored location with the goal to broaden understanding of the natural interactions across Chicago from land stewards, artists, businesses, etc.
Elevated Reuse Market + Workshop
An end of year celebration! The Workshop focuses on creative reuse with old dispensary tins & jars while learning environmental effects of ash / filter pollution. The Market highlights community groups collabed with through the year; from art, retail, clubs, etc!
Initiatives
Educational Nature Graphics
Free downloadable mini booklets based on nature and its various benefits from themes of :
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Guerrilla Marketing: The Eco-friendly Way ZINE
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Disrupting The Prison Cycle with Green Spaces ZINE
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Graffiti, Street Art, Murals: You Can Be Anything You Want To Be (a Mexicanas Twist on using art as self expression) ZINE
Guerrilla Marketing Material Drops
A Mini Mercado bag containing a copy of "Guerrilla Marketing: The Eco-Friendly Way" Zine to teach free* marketing techniques, 4ct paint markers, 1ct paint stick, 25ct of Mailing Labels to make stickers, and a Somos Los Urbs In Horto Sticker!
Plant Where You Paint Workshops
Educational urban arts workshops centering self expression to cultivate appreciation of the practice and the environment in which its painted in. Receiving native seeds to guerilla garden when they go out to paint.
Get to Know The Identity
Known by two names,
Somos Los Urbs in Horto / We Are The City In A Garden
to keep originality in "Urbs in Horto" designation in 1837 & translated meaning behind the saying.
Website Name: SomosLosUrbsinHorto
Instagram Handle: @wearethecityinagarden
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Click the sticker to read more on our visual identity from standard colors/fonts to our methods of public communication such as signage from flyers to sticks and learn how you can do it yourself for free!
Click the star to learn about our meaning behind the usage of the infamous Chicago 6-pointed flag stars represented on stickers and number of petals on logo. Take a glance at the culture of our page and what we represent at the core.