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    Chicago design studio has MAPPED out local community-based resources

    An online database launched this year is trying to fill an information gap on Chicago-area community projects. MAPPED, a project of Design Trust Chicago, was started because the three founders of the trust realized there was a lack of accessible information about community design programs. “The website, we wanted it to be playful, fun, engaging, conversational,” said Emma Jasinski, the community designer at Design Trust Chicago. “A lot of this information lives on city websites or on other platforms, but oftentimes it’s really dense information that’s hard to navigate.” Clio Lyons, the operations manager for Design Trust Chicago, said the goal is for the site to act as a “Wikipedia…

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