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Join us to explore how architects can shape inventive models of property ownership to make housing more equitable, inclusive, and vibrant. Speakers: Alice Armstrong and Ashton Hamm of uxo architects and Janette Kim of CCA’s Urban Works Agency.
Join us to play Co-Op Quest, an interactive board game about the joys and challenges of cooperative living. This game was designed for the non-profit SOMOS Mayfair by CCA students in a seminar called “Collective Power” taught by Janette Komoda Kim.
The Center for Architecture and Design and Architecture Division at California College of the Arts are proud to present Architecture for a Changing Climate, an exhibition tackling one of California's most pressing challenges: resilience in the face of wildfires and climate change.
Congratulations to UWA Director Janette Komoda Kim, whose firm All of the Above and LMNOP, led by CCA alumnus Tyler Pew (MArch 2012) were awarded the 2024 Innovation Fund from the Build It Green Network. This grant will support outreach for Mix & Match, a board game that enables community members to design unique investment and ownership arrangements for affordable and equitable housing.
Members from the non-profit SOMOS Mayfair gave CCA students a tour of the Mayfair neighborhood in San Jose. Students in this seminar, called “Collective Power,” taught by Janette Komoda Kim, will design a board game to facilitate cooperative living.
"West Oakland Stories," Issue No.5 of The Agent, is out now! Edited by Adjunct Professor Julia Grinkrug, with contributions by Associate Professor Neeraj Bhatia and Shreya Shankar (MArch 2023).
Congratulations to UWA Director and Associate Professor Janette Kim for being awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for Spring 2024! During her fellowship, Janette will work on her forthcoming book on the decommodification of property ownership.
NBC Bay Area’s 5pm news featured CCA students’ work on post-fire recovery in Greenville, CA, in “San Francisco students help historic fire-damaged town plan its future” by Joe Rosato, Jr.
Congrats to UWA Director Janette Kim, who received the 2024 Arnold W. Brunner Grant for Architectural Research from AIA New York and the Center for Architecture for Property Playbook, her forthcoming book and research project that illustrates how activists and architects can work together to co-opt property law and foster a just and ecologically vibrant built environment.
Associate Professors Antje Steinmuller and Neeraj Bhatia, co-directors of the Urban Works Agency, received an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2024 Creative Achievement Award for their project “Making Space for Community – Learning from Collective Living as a Basis for Designing Policy.”
Associate Professor Neeraj Bhatia, director of UWA and principal of The OPEN Workshop, was honored with a 2024 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award, which spotlights North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who have significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence their field.
Neeraj Bhatia received an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2024 Faculty Design Award for “Aging Against the Machine,” a project completed with Ignacio González Galán (Barnard College) and Karen Kubey (University of Toronto).
Organized by Associate Professor Neeraj Bhatia, Relearning Kinship brings together designers, activists, sociologists and legal scholars to discuss and expand our understanding of kinship in relation to land and new family forms. Recognizing forms of kinship that sit outside blood relationships highlights the role of care in relearning our social and environmental bonds. This event is presented by CCA@CCA, Urban Works Agency, and Haight St. Commons.
Join us for a lunchtime talk with Julia von Mende, an architectural theorist and professor at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Julia’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary investigation of spatial structures and everyday practices such as eating and domestic life.
CCA Architecture Division students and faculty will come together with Tyler Pew, CCA alumnus and member of the Dixie Fire Collaborative, to present work from the first year of CCA Architecture’s collaboration with the city of Greenville, CA to reimagine and rebuild the community in the aftermath of the devastating Dixie Fire in 2021.
Join us for the release of Common Ground: Project for the Post-Retail City, Re-Making the Ground Floor., a book produced by an advanced urban studio that envisioned strategies for reclaiming the urban commons in the post-pandemic city.
This workshop, hosted at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, explored how architectural drawings can influence the cultural rituals and legal protocols of commoning. Panelists described how they use drawing to define ownership, and invited participants to engage in a collective drawing exercise.
Congratulations to Janette Kim on receiving the 2023 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York! The award spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design voices that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Click for full video of Janette’s lecture.
Janette Kim recently shared her research on Esther’s Orbit Room and design work in the Resilient by Design Challenge at the Housing Justice Futures Philadelphia Forum on Design, Race, and Climate Change at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design.
Looking for a job related to Urban Works? Join us to meet Bay Area architects who affect social justice, ecological vitality, and economic resilience. We will begin with Part 1: Employer Panel Discussion to discuss how practitioners engage with urban questions, then hold Part 2: Portfolio & Interview workshop for students, and wrap up with Part 3: Speed Dating with Employers. All events are open to CCA Architecture students.
In this traveling exhibition, students from 3 courses at California College of the Arts presented research and design proposals created in partnership with the community of Greenville, California that help rebuild a more resilient and inclusive town after the Dixie Fire. Coursework: Property in Crisis studio by UWA Director Janette Kim, Rethinking Repair by Margaret Ikeda and Mark Donohue, and Spaces of Extraction seminar by James Graham.
Don't miss Places Journal's Field Notes on Design Activism series, in which several dozen educators and practitioners from around the world share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice. Contributions include UWA Directors Antje Steinmuller, Janette Kim, and Neeraj Bhatia.
The Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival at the University of Cambridge hosted two performances of Bartertown, a board game created by CCA Professor and Urban Works Agency Co-Director Janette Kim that explores how networks of sociability and care can adapt to climate change as well as other disasters like a market crash or even a divorce.
This panel discussion asked how narratives of property can be recast in relation to justice and liberation for BIPOC people, and to grapple with the entanglements, responsibilities, and risks brought forward by climate change. Speakers: Emanuel Admassu, Keller Easterling, David Fortin, and Brittany Utting, with James Graham and Janette Kim, moderators.
Janette Kim’s article, "Manifold Enclosures: Decommodifying Property at Esther's Orbit Room in West Oakland" was published in Duke University's journal Public Culture. The award spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design voices that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.
This exhibition of recent projects from CCA's Urban Works Agency explores how architects can reshape social justice, ecological vitality, and economic resilience in cities today. Work shown here spans across four of the lab’s current areas of focus: Domestic Affairs, Resilient Equity, Catalyzing the Commons, and Leveraging Infrastructure.
Property in Crisis (Janette Kim’s Fall 2020 Advanced Studio) is being exhibited at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 curated by Dominique Perrault, in the “Global Studios” exhibition curated by Archiworkshop at Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
Please join students from CCA’s Architecture Division in conversation with Gregory Jackson, Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. We will ask Jackson about his work on collective decision-making and cooperative-ownership in East Oakland, to understand how urban economies can be reshaped to support community ownership and power-sharing.
Please join students from CCA’s Architecture Division in conversation with Gregory Jackson, Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. We will ask Jackson about his work on collective decision-making and cooperative-ownership in East Oakland, to understand how urban economies can be reshaped to support community ownership and power-sharing.
Please join students from CCA’s Architecture Division in conversation with Marquita Price, Director of Urban and Regional Planning at the East Oakland Collective. We will ask Price about her involvement in the East Oakland Neighborhoods Initiative, which organized a neighborhood-driven planning process in Deep East Oakland to build a just transition from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members.
This book launch celebrates the publication of two books by the Urban Works Agency: Apocalypse Now! Project for the Post Retail City and Designing a Just City. Join the editors, student authors and a panel of contributors to explore what it takes to make the city open: open to interpretation, open for business, open for self-determination, and open as public space.
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