The artistic director of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial Yesomi Umolu has picked five highlights from the event, including a glass memorial dedicated to victims of gun violence victims and a small cinema set that explores race and gender in the 20th-century.
Umolu and co-curators Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares developed the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, titled ...And Other Stories, to explore a wide-range of contemporary themes and incite a variety of responses.
Exhibits, installations and other programme activities produced by over 80 contributors fall under one of four curatorial brackets ? No Land Beyond, Appearances and Erasures, Rights and Reclamations, and Common Ground ? and address issues like social housing, gun violence and cultural histories. The Chicago Cultural Center, the event's hub, which is open to the public from Thursday September 19 until Sunday 5 January 2020. Read on for Umolu's five highlights:

Top and above photograph by Kendall McCaugherty
The Gun Violence Memorial Project by MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas
Gun violence is a national epidemic whose sheer scale often reduces victims to statistics. MASS Design Group, in partnership with the artist Hank Willis Thomas and the gun control advocacy groups Everytown for Gun Safety and Purpose Over Pain, developed The Gun Violence Memorial Project to honour the lives of gun violence victims.
Through advocacy and remembrance-object-collection workshops, they invite the public to ...