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Maya Bird-Murphy
Chicago-based designer, educator, and founder making design accessible.
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Last month we came together at the Design Summit for Friends of Friends to celebrate the power of design to make positive change. We gained knowledge, made lasting friendships, danced in the street, and chose joy as an act of resistance. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
In the coming weeks, we will share our favorite photos and clips from the sessions. Stay connected—this event is over, but we plan to continue creating opportunities to gather.
A huge shoutout to everyone who had a hand in making this event so special!
Video by @tiinley
It was such an honor to be interviewed by Alice Rawsthorn for the Design Emergency Podcast (@design.emergency). We discussed how Mobile Makers empowers more people to engage in architecture, what it’s really like to run a nonprofit, and how the values of young designers are shifting the field. I also shared more about the new initiatives I’m working on, like Alternative Practice and the Design Summit for Friends of Friends, which are filling my cup. Thank you to @alice.rawsthorn and @paolantonelli for having me!
Thank you to @interiordesignmag and @thecindygram for inviting me to sit on the jury for the @nycxdesign awards! ✨
Thank you to @interiordesignmag and @thecindygram for inviting me to sit on the jury for the @nycxdesign awards! ✨
Thank you to @interiordesignmag and @thecindygram for inviting me to sit on the jury for the @nycxdesign awards! ✨
Enjoyed joining Theaster, Erika, Staceyann, and Dilla for a discussion at the Land School. Thanks for the invite, @wallacefdn and @rebuild_foundation!
More about the event:
In March 2026, The Wallace Foundation brought together more than 130 grantee partners, artists, and leaders for its biannual Peer Learning Community as part of its Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative. The panel conversation Land as Ledger: Art, Land, and the Architecture of Community Futures examined models in which creative practice, urban agriculture, and design strategies transform speculative value into shared ownership, resilience, and belonging.
Panelists included Theaster Gates, artist and founder of the Rebuild Foundation; Maya Bird-Murphy, founder and Executive Director of Mobile Makers Chicago; Erika Dudley of Urban Growers Collective; Staceyann Chin, writer, activist, and founder of Kindred on the Rock; and Sherman Dilla Thomas, Chicago historian, photographer, social justice artist, and 2025 MacArthur Fellow.
📸: Charles Bouril Photography
Enjoyed joining Theaster, Erika, Staceyann, and Dilla for a discussion at the Land School. Thanks for the invite, @wallacefdn and @rebuild_foundation!
More about the event:
In March 2026, The Wallace Foundation brought together more than 130 grantee partners, artists, and leaders for its biannual Peer Learning Community as part of its Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative. The panel conversation Land as Ledger: Art, Land, and the Architecture of Community Futures examined models in which creative practice, urban agriculture, and design strategies transform speculative value into shared ownership, resilience, and belonging.
Panelists included Theaster Gates, artist and founder of the Rebuild Foundation; Maya Bird-Murphy, founder and Executive Director of Mobile Makers Chicago; Erika Dudley of Urban Growers Collective; Staceyann Chin, writer, activist, and founder of Kindred on the Rock; and Sherman Dilla Thomas, Chicago historian, photographer, social justice artist, and 2025 MacArthur Fellow.
📸: Charles Bouril Photography
Enjoyed joining Theaster, Erika, Staceyann, and Dilla for a discussion at the Land School. Thanks for the invite, @wallacefdn and @rebuild_foundation!
More about the event:
In March 2026, The Wallace Foundation brought together more than 130 grantee partners, artists, and leaders for its biannual Peer Learning Community as part of its Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative. The panel conversation Land as Ledger: Art, Land, and the Architecture of Community Futures examined models in which creative practice, urban agriculture, and design strategies transform speculative value into shared ownership, resilience, and belonging.
Panelists included Theaster Gates, artist and founder of the Rebuild Foundation; Maya Bird-Murphy, founder and Executive Director of Mobile Makers Chicago; Erika Dudley of Urban Growers Collective; Staceyann Chin, writer, activist, and founder of Kindred on the Rock; and Sherman Dilla Thomas, Chicago historian, photographer, social justice artist, and 2025 MacArthur Fellow.
📸: Charles Bouril Photography
2025 tested my resilience. We experienced so much funding uncertainty that I wasn’t sure we would make it to 2026. And dealing with this during a time when it feels like everything in the world is so ugly and cruel made it hard to know how to show up. I latched on to every one of these beautiful moments to get me through. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who offered me kindness, grace, support, or a hug this year—I couldn’t do this without you. I wouldn’t trade this self-prescribed madness for anything else, but I spent a lot of time with myself this year and I’m ready to start doing things a little differently.
In 2026, I wish for peace, healing, rest, and a bit of ease for us all. Happy New Year! ✨
I decided to go on a little “writing retreat” to finish a deadline that’s been looming for a while. I’m contributing a chapter to a forthcoming book, and needed to get out of my normal routine and into nature (also the pool doesn’t hurt). This type of writing assignment is new to me, and I’m so excited to go through this process. Wish me luck. 🙃
I decided to go on a little “writing retreat” to finish a deadline that’s been looming for a while. I’m contributing a chapter to a forthcoming book, and needed to get out of my normal routine and into nature (also the pool doesn’t hurt). This type of writing assignment is new to me, and I’m so excited to go through this process. Wish me luck. 🙃
I decided to go on a little “writing retreat” to finish a deadline that’s been looming for a while. I’m contributing a chapter to a forthcoming book, and needed to get out of my normal routine and into nature (also the pool doesn’t hurt). This type of writing assignment is new to me, and I’m so excited to go through this process. Wish me luck. 🙃
A special thing happened this week! At this year’s Interior Design Hall of Fame Gala in New York, Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen honored Mobile Makers during the ceremony and announced that we’ve been chosen to receive a donation from the proceeds of the event. What an incredible way to end the year!
Thank you @thecindygram and @interiordesignmag for always going out of your way to support and advocate. It means so much. ♥️♥️♥️
This week, I joined @thecindygram to chat about my design journey at the 30/30 National Conference, an @interiordesignmag event that celebrates designers under 30 shaping the future of the industry. Thank you for the invite! ♥️
This week, I joined @thecindygram to chat about my design journey at the 30/30 National Conference, an @interiordesignmag event that celebrates designers under 30 shaping the future of the industry. Thank you for the invite! ♥️
This week, I joined @thecindygram to chat about my design journey at the 30/30 National Conference, an @interiordesignmag event that celebrates designers under 30 shaping the future of the industry. Thank you for the invite! ♥️
I’m feeling inspired and cautiously hopeful after last night. It was a much needed reminder that when we work together, people hold so much power. I believe everyday designers have the power to make this world better and that architecture can be a tool for liberation, but we have to fight for it. Stay engaged, raise your voice, and be bold!
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Mobile Makers, in collaboration with the historic Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church, designed the “Woven Porch,” a sukkah that was unveiled last weekend at the opening of the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. At the festival’s end, the outdoor pavilion will be moved to its permanent home in a former empty lot that is being transformed into a garden sanctuary and information access point for those in need of wellness, housing, food, and other community resources, particularly Black women.
The sukkah will act as a porch—a threshold and gathering space for slowness, connection, and mutual aid. The design of the structure evokes the concept of “radical hospitality” and draws from the forms and textures of Chicago’s West Side. It introduces woven cane as a metaphor for collective dreaming, making, solidarity, and resilience. This site will embody Stone Temple’s vision for a thriving, sustainable North Lawndale where every resident has access to green spaces, fresh produce, and the knowledge to nurture their environment.
As we sit in this moment of heightened unrest and oppression from the streets of Gaza to the neighborhoods of Chicago, we are committed to creating and fostering spaces of love, care, play, collaboration, inclusion, and resistance.
Fabrication by @1840creative
📸 Photo 1: Brian Griffin, Photo 2&3: Norvell Tolbert
Subconscious Dreams Come True!! Never in my wildest subconscious dreams did I unthink that @martellusb would christen our brand new House of Belonging w a super dope spoken word!!! Big fan of his when he was on the Bears and I was blown away by his creative articulation of his perspective and energy. Thank you to The Design Summit of Friends of Friends 🙏. @mobilemakers_chicago + @collaboraction = 🍯🌈💜
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