Night of Ideas: Outside the Lines – Shaping Narratives and Urban Futures
Villa Albertine’s signature Night of Ideas will take place from February 24 to March 3 across 20 US cities. The event invites thought leaders, activists, performers, authors, and academics to engage the public in late-night discussions addressing major global issues. This year’s unifying theme, “Outside the Lines,” centers on urban life and development, raising questions about the impact of climate change, new technologies, gentrification, and social activism, by way of diversity and inclusion, access to education and nature, the future of cultural institutions, and the shapes of artistic communities in built environments.
In Chicago, this event is co-curated by Villa Albertine and the Chicago Architecture Center.
Free and open to the public, this global celebration of thoughts will welcome inspiring voices from academic, artistic and civic communities for a four-hour marathon of ideas on this year’s theme: Outside the lines.