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...
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...
On April 25, 2017, the students from East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at Esteban E. Torres (ELARA) presented their body of work for Greetings from East LA on campus at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. USC students, faculty and administrators all had...
On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the Fellows hosted their seventh Urban Futures Lab Supper Club with special guests DMA, President of Planet DMA, and McCrae A. Parker, Technology and Social Equity Strategist at McP & Associates Consulting. This dinner was a culmination of Module 4,...
On Tuesday, January 31, 2017, the Fellows hosted their sixth Urban Futures Lab Supper Club with special guests Jon Christensen, Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and David Sloane, Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. This dinner was a...
During January, Urban Futures Lab Fellows left the friendly confines of the office and project sites to tour three different neighborhoods in Los Angeles, learning about each's hidden history from local experts. Fellows headed to Chinatown, Downtown, and Union Station with Taylor Fitz-Gibbon of UCLA REMAP on a tour called "Planned Forgetting."...
See how ELARA students got hand-on training from photographers Elon Shoenholz and Rafael Cardenas by checking out our album on Facebook!...