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Design Wed Sep 09 2015
Center for Lost Arts: Beta-Testing a Maker Space
By Bethel Habte
The old bowtruss building at 440 N. Morgan St. in the West Loop was a meat freezer. But for one month before its demolition, Kickstarter co-founder Charles Adler made it a playground. He stocked the building with materials and tools, then let loose 40-plus designers, woodworkers, artists and engineers in the space and let them make stuff.
Anything at all.
The month-long experience - called Center for Lost Arts - served as a prototype for future "maker spaces" in Chicago that Adler hopes to build. But prototypes aren't perfect.
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Bethel Habte is an independent radio producer in Washington, DC. She recently completed a Master's Degree in multimedia journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, specializing in audio and print feature reporting. You can follow her on Twitter at @bethel_habte.