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...
Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Susan Moffat is a curator, urban planner and writer who works at the intersection of culture, nature and place, with a special interest in race, parks, and public space. As Creative Director of Future Histories Lab and Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, she leads the development of community partnerships, courses, and workshops and teaches humanities studios. A former journalist, she has a deep belief in the power of stories to make change. She worked in affordable housing, environmental advocacy and shoreline planning. Moffat is the...
Freelance producer and co-founder of Experience Economies.
Gavin Kroeber's projects and writings poach from visual art, urban theory, and performance. He produces curatorial projects, artistic research platforms, and performance events that interrogate the cultural dynamics of power and their expression in the poetics of place. He is a frequent contributor to Art in America...
Professor of Urban Planning, Geography and Former Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Jennifer Wolch is a scholar of urban analysis and planning. Her past work focused on urban homelessness and the delivery of affordable housing and human services for poor people. She has also studied urban sprawl and alternative approaches to city-building such as smart growth and new urbanism. An early investigator of animal-society relations in cities, she has proposed strategies for human-animal co-existence in an urbanizing world. Her most recent work analyzes connections between city form, physical activity, and public health, and develops strategies to address...
