Cares only about the quality of the work, not politics or advancement

An annual two-day street festival across Shelf and Tier 2 neighborhoods celebrating augmentation as identity, community, and survival — not aspiration. Chrom…

Ironbloom began in the Tier 2 fabrication districts of the old South Loop as a defiant response to corporate augmentation advertising that portrayed chrome a…

…thout covering, polished or weathered according to personal pride. Ironwear began in Shelf communities where replacement parts were salvaged and mismatched — the aes…

…o choice but to display unfinished chrome, was reclaimed as pride and then aggressively aestheticized into a movement spanning Tiers 1 through 4. The Tier 5 co-optio…

…d their advocates, the word has been reclaimed as a term of pride — the Porcelain Collective in the Meridian Arts District uses it explicitly. In Tier 1 usage it car…

A term of fierce pride used by long-term Shelf residents to distinguish themselves from recent arrivals or those who moved…