Katherine Darnstadt

Latent

Katherine Darnstadt is the founder of Latent, an architecture and urbanism practice exploring the influence of design as small or as large as the context allows in the search of social and spatial justice. Since founding Latent in 2010, Katherine and her firm have pursued projects at the bench, building, and block scale across Chicago and the Midwest. They have prototyped new urban design systems to advance urban food access with Forty Acres Fresh Market, supported over 200 small businesses through Boombox micro retail popup program, designed new community centers with Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, and created community design frameworks through co-founding the nonprofit Design Trust Chicago.