The Public Studio works with artists, neighborhoods and organizations to invigorate communities and the spaces they inhabit, both place-based and online. Recent collaborators include The City of New York, UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, LA Commons, GOOD, Creative Commons, Jonathan Harris, BurdaStyle, and Etsy.
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Los Angeles 2009
For LA 2.0, we gathered thirty urban practitioners, neighborhood advocates, and artists to brainstorm creative solutions for some of the cities most pressing issues. The winning solution of the day: temporary, modular public spaces. Brilliant!
Paris 2009
We brought our post-it map to Paris!
Los Angeles 2008
Together with GOOD, The Public Studio created pop-up community centers (temporary community curated public spaces) in New York and LA that hosted national and local projects addressing public issues ranging from the National Resource Defense Council's Speak Now campaign to an original series on the value of sharing with Creative Commons.
Los Angeles 2008
Townhall Potlatch, a salon hosted with One Pot addressing Los Angeles’ public transportation needs with local leaders and advocates. Participants were asked to bring a personal artifact that addressed the question, "how do you move through the city?".
New York City 2007 photo courtesy of Jez Coulson
The Seed Project was an experiment in public interaction and interactive mapping. Working with over 4,000 volunteers we distributed 80,000 flowers to pedestrians throughout New York City’s five boroughs in a single day and then mapped the flowers' movement using a simple tagging system and a google maps mashup.
NYC 2007
In 2007 Kyla Fullenwider directed Garden in Transit, one of the largest community-driven, public art projects in the nation's history. Over 25,000 volunteer artists -- mostly public school students from Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens -- participated in the year long education initiative which culminated in hand painting thousands of flowers on the city's taxis.
Other projects include A Public Forum on Public Space with Islands of LA and the Passport Project (co-curated with UCLA’s REMAP) which works with students to explore and document some of Los Angeles' most culturally rich neighborhoods. In 2009, through a grant from UCLA’s Department of Urban Planing, The Public Studio curated a series of walking expeditions exploring street food and local culture for Trekking LA's 2009 season.