8 posts with the tag "cities"

Designing with Communities in Mind

How do you approach the design of a space or process intended for a specific community? Shalini Agrawal has many…

Talking Climate Change through Art and China

On September 11, 2018, the public program “Global China: Cross-Cultural Conversation on The Work of Art in the Age of…

Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge

The past year was full of revelations; we learned, as many have long suspected, that criminal risk assessment and online…

Designing for Climate Change

In a bright, open studio in Oakland, Nicholas de Monchaux works with his partner, Kathryn Moll. Together they make up…

Living in the Archives

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

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

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

In 2009, when the San Francisco Public Library became the first library in the United States to hire a full-time…