Reimagining the UrbanBay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public SpaceSeptember 30, 2013
Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates gather to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources.
Editorial Director of Print for MIT Technology Review
Allison Arieff gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on Sep 30, 2013.
Allison Arieff is the Editorial Director of Print for the MIT Technology Review. She was previously Editorial Director for the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association). From 2007-2020, she wrote a regular column about architecture, design, cities, and technology for the Opinion section of The New York Times. She has written about design for two decades for Wired, California Sunday, Good, and The New...
ARC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley
Louise Mozingo was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.
Louise Mozingo is Professor of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. She is a member of the Graduate Group in Urban Design of the College of Environmental Design and Director of the American Studies program of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She was named a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2017. A former Associate and senior landscape architect for Sasaki...
Benjamin Grant was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.
Benjamin Grant is a city planner, urban designer, curator and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent over a decade at SPUR, the urban policy research organization, where he served as Urban Design Policy Director, leading research on physical planning, public space and urban design.
He is the author of numerous reports and studies on subjects that include retrofitting suburbs for walkability, the innovation-sector workplace, accommodating regional...
Anisha Gade was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Anisha Gade is currently a PhD Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds dual masters degrees in City Planning and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. With a background in communications and international urban development, she is especially interested in contributing to critical dialogue about the built environment.
Poet, Vocalist, and Leader of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust
Moy Eng was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017.
Moy Eng leads Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), a community centered real estate organization for the arts. In deep partnerships with community, CAST invests and stewards affordable housing and workspaces across the San Francisco Bay Area. Launched in 2013, CAST has acquired and invested in six arts buildings in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, cited as a creative placekeeping model by cultural and civic leaders internationally...
Director of Urban Design, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Margaret Crawford was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2013.
Margaret Crawford holds degrees in architectural history, housing, and urban planning. Before coming to Berkeley, Crawford chaired the History, Theory, and Humanities Program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and, from 2000–2009, was professor of urban design and planning theory at the Harvard GSD, teaching history and design workshops and studios. Her scholarly work includes Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The History of...
ARC Fellow and Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health at UC Berkeley
Jason Corburn was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.
Jason Corburn is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Public Health. He directs the Center for Global Healthy Cities and co-directs the joint Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the links between environmental health and social justice in cities, notions of expertise in...
Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto
Karen Chapple was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Keeping San Francisco Alive Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 12, 2015.
Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as...
On October 14th, ARC presented the Internet Tour with the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), led by Alex Saum-Pascual, Poet and Assoc Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, and created with Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona. With the participation of Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor of Art Practice, the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media...
