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Territory is young people leading through the practice of design in our communities.

09/04/2026

🍂 Territory Fall 2026! 🎨🏙️

Interested in art, design, or making an impact in your community? Join us this fall and turn your ideas into real projects that help shape our city!

🚨 Space is limited, especially for our Advanced Program — apply today!

Apply through After School Matters and search for Territory.

Questions? Email us at [email protected]

TeenOpportunities AfterSchoolMatters

08/13/2026

our teens spent the summer designing, experimenting, building, and bringing their ideas to life at 557 Creating Space. 💡🛠️✨

These prototypes are more than projects they’re proof of what happens when young people have the space, tools, and freedom to create.

Check out what they made! 👀🔥

05/29/2026

come along on our Territory field trip pt. 2 ✨
visiting the 557 Creating Space Project + exploring urban design in action 🏙️

special shoutout to our Stewardship Teen Lamaya for the voiceover 🎙️

05/21/2026

We wrapped up our Spring Design Team program STRONG 💥🌸

This season was filled with inspiring teen presentations, creative design projects, and powerful community impact. We celebrated with two amazing events our Spring Review with community members and our Trolley Tour celebrating our 10 YEARS of teen impact in our neighborhoods 🚋🎉

Seeing our teens share their ideas, leadership, and vision for the future reminded us why this work matters so much. Thank you to everyone who supported, collaborated, and celebrated alongside us!

🚨 Summer applications are closing soon!
If your teen is looking for an opportunity to explore urban design, gain real-world experience, and make a difference in their community, apply now! Through

🥳And BIG EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT SOON 👀💥

YouthVoices CreativeYouth SummerOpportunities

05/07/2026

As an educator one has an obligation to ignite curiosity and passion. Today it was great to see the flames of effort manifest.

Today the youth of Territory NFP presented their Spring work, which included designs for updating our lot at Ohio and Central as well as policy analysis and design in conjunction with UIC CUPPA

The community came and supported. The highlight was the intergenerational dialogue that started tense yet evolved into honest conversation about how youth can make Austin better!

More work is to be done but days like today inspire not only youth but adults alike.
Introducing architecture, urban design, and civics one day one conversation and one project at a time!

04/24/2026

Spring check-in 🌿

Our Youth Design Teams has been putting in the work as they move through Phase Two of Creating Space and we couldn’t be more excited to share some highlights from the journey so far.

✨Want to stay connected with what we’re building? Sign up for our newsletter and follow our socials through the link in our bio.✨

04/09/2026

March 21, 2026 💫 Our FIRST Urban Design Career Fair was a success!
Huge thank you to all the amazing youth who showed up, our partners, tabling orgs, and board for making it happen 🙌
Special thanks to Bethel New Life for hosting us 🏙️✨
Future city builders in the making!

Scan the QR code for your professional headshots taken at the event 📸

Address

4950 W. Thomas Street
Chicago, IL
60651

Website

https://linktr.ee/territorychicago

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