A hyperlocal postcard
What’s the deal with (specifically this corner of) Adams Point?
Oakland Interpreter Birdzine
Analysis of qualitative survey results from 100 Oaklanders on their ambitions and observations living in a place of rapid change. A dozen respondents were translated into avatars, as various birds who currently frequent Lake Merritt.
OpenArchSF: Oakland Civic Design Lab
To design and build-out the Civic Design Lab on Oakland City Hall’s 9th floor, Open Architecture San Francisco volunteers worked with area architects and City representatives to develop a collaboration space that breaks down bureaucratic silos.
Oakland Interpreter Project
Stronger Civic Connections Despite Technology. From the Spring 2018 MA Interdisciplinary Design Strategies project for Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), Dun Laoghaire, and Institute without Boundaries (IWB), Toronto.
“This Is Not:” A Manifesto
Towards the end of the MAIDS thesis, I was losing track of the reasons for the project. In a quick exercise, I was able to zoom out and identify universal, accelerating phenomena threatening our well-being as a society.
Structures for Inclusion: Untold
Can storytelling bring Public Interest Design the recognition it deserves, or is something else missing?
Dismantling Houses
The Open Architecture Collaborative takes up tools at 2017 Leadership Summit In February, Rice University’s architecture building wore some encouraging impromptu signage: WE – WILL – NOT – BUILD – YOUR – WALL. The handful of students at work that weekend were surprised but not alarmed by the presence of some 20 international professionals in their…
Open Arch SF 2016: A Look Back
Not that anybody needs a reminder, but 2016 was a LONG YEAR! So long in fact we welcomed it under a different name. During the period when the Open Architecture Collaborative identified itself, built a board of directors, and quietly secured a 501(c)3, the “San Francisco Chapter” had its own rebuilding to do.
Opening our Open Spaces – by winks, nods, weights, pulleys
How Open Architecture SF partnered with computer programmers and renown architects to hack underused “open spaces” of downtown San Francisco.
TransForm engagement: LGM Silicon Valley
Earlier this year, transit nonprofit TransForm invited Open Architecture San Francisco Bay Area (OAC:SF) to engage attendees of the Let’s Get Moving! Silicon Valley Summit held at Microsoft Mountain View on Saturday, May 7.
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