April 10, 2018 – At the first Open House of Spring 2018, the students from East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at Esteban E. Torres High School presented Greetings from East L.A. at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. USC students, faculty and admin...
We are hosting not one, but two, open houses to highlight the work of “Greetings from East L.A. " Please join us! The open houses showcase work by high school students from East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy exploring active and multimodal transportation in East L.A. Students will...
We are thrilled to announce that we are a 2017-2018 awardee for the Humanities For All Project Grant from California Humanities! The grant is for our latest and greatest Hidden Hi Fi project titled The Chicharrón Chronicles: Post-Colonial Spanish Legacies in Contemporary Historic Filipinotown. The Humanities...
On January 26, 2018, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy led an eye-opening day of activities for the students at East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at Esteban E. Torres High School (Renaissance), Stevenson Middle School, and Belvedere Middle School. The theme of the...
Love and Loss in Hi Fi – a creative place-keeping Project – is a dynamic, five-part Hidden Hi Fi screening and story-gathering series and engages residents from Historic Filipinotown in a direct response to their rapidly gentrifying community. On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, we collected...
Share your stories about the people and places that make your neighborhood home. Tonight, January 24, 2018, is the first night of Love & Loss in Hi Fi: a creative place-keeping project. Love & Loss in Hi Fi is a dynamic, five-part Hidden Hi Fi screening and story-gathering series and...
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice led the ELARA students on a Ground Truthing Field Trip around East L.A. during the Fall 2017 semester. The field trip was an exercise in exploration and interrogation. Students investigated individual buildings along Cesar Chavez Ave. and figured out...
On Tuesday, October 24, 2017, our Urban Futures Lab Fellows hosted a "Happy Hour" event where they reflected on their first year and shared their ambitions and dreams for the future. Fellows created a six-word story, an aspirational job description honing in on the type of...
On Thursday, August 24, 2017, we partnered with C.I.C.L.E. and the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC) for Taste of Temple Street: Filipino Bites by Bike, presented by Metro Los Angeles. Together, we biked to various restaurants on Temple and sampled their delicious foods. It...
ASPIRATIONS: From Purpose to Action /// Urban Futures Lab Module 6 began in September 2017 – the mid-point of the two-year arc of the fellowship. As an inflection point, the Module asked the Fellows to reflect on their first year, reconsider their professional interests and goals, and...