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Events

Our spring and fall events include talks, panel discussions, film screenings, book launches, studio visits, exhibitions, and artistic installations. All events are documented and archived online and on the MAS Context Vimeo Channel.

Upcoming

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Lee Bey on The Best Side: The Architecture, Places, and Spaces of Chicago’s West Side

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 6PM
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MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Now / Arriving 2026

Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6PM
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MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Germane Barnes: Turn the Mic Up

Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6PM
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Installation

The Difficulty of Representation

April 9-May 17, 2026
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MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Luis Urculo: The Difficulty of Representation

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 6PM
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MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Adam Paul Susaneck: Segregation by Design and Reconnecting Communities

Monday, March 23, 2026 at 6PM
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Exhibition

All Magnificent and Wild: Notes on Chicago Residential Hotels

March 14-April 11, 2026
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MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

GOFF

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 6PM

Past

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Mas event 2026 exploring the archives chicago history museum 01

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Exploring the Archives: Chicago History Museum

Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 11AM
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Mas event 2026 identity as infrastructure main

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Identity as Infrastructure: How Span’s Design Shapes Culture, Institutions, and Public Life

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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Mas event 2025 show me 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Sean Lally: New Origin Stories

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 tracing traces 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2025

Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 11:30AM
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Mas event 2025 thirtysix views views of inverted portal event los angeles 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal | Los Angeles

Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 fernand pouillon 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Fernand Pouillon: France’s Most Wanted Architect

Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 isamu noguchis designs for a better world 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Marin R. Sullivan: Isamu Noguchi’s Designs for a Better World

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 stanley tigerman drawing on the ineffable 02

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable

Monday, October 27, 2025 at 5PM
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Mas event 2025 small adaptations 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

salazarsequeromedina: Small Adaptations

Monday, October 20, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 unbuilding rebuilding recentering the architectural archive 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Unbuilding/Rebuilding: Recentering the Architectural Archive

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 exploring the architecture and design open archive 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 6PM
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Mas event 2025 crop top 06

Exhibition

Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory Opening Reception

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 6PM