How do you approach the design of a space or process intended for a specific community? Shalini Agrawal has many…
8 posts with the tag "cities"
Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge
By Shannon Mattern
The past year was full of revelations; we learned, as many have long suspected, that criminal risk assessment and online…
Designing for Climate Change
By Sophia Fish
In a bright, open studio in Oakland, Nicholas de Monchaux works with his partner, Kathryn Moll. Together they make up…
Living in the Archives
By Jenny Odell
In the spring of 2018 I became the first artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Planning Department. I was given a…
Reimagining the City
By Public Knowledge
What can our urban landscape reveal about San Francisco? In Reimagining the City, speakers looked at different approaches to Bay…
The Value of Networks at a Time of Fragmentation
By Jon Christensen
In the San Francisco Bay Area, a booming technology industry has led to increasing inequality, the privatization of public resources…
Promoting Dignity, Compassion and a Community Living Room
By Megan Martenyi
In 2009, when the San Francisco Public Library became the first library in the United States to hire a full-time…