This month, the city of Chicago will ring in the sophomore edition of its architecture biennial, the critically acclaimed inaugural event in 2015 having set the stage for the Windy City to become a showcase for architectural innovation.

This year’s theme, “Make New History,” curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of L.A.-based firm Johnston Marklee, picks up on thematic threads from 2015 while emphasizing site specificity, artistic collaboration, and urban planning. Johnston and Lee have organized a myriad of exhibits, performances, and installations that will radiate from the Chicago Cultural Center (the Biennial’s central hub) to six anchor sites, five partner institutions, and four additional special-project locations. “We’ll see more projects that address the civic landscape—techniques of mapping, studying ways to find new approaches to the civic scale,” says Johnston.