This workshop, hosted at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, explored how architectural drawings can influence the cultural rituals and legal protocols of commoning. Panelists described how they use drawing to define ownership, and invited participants to engage in a collective drawing exercise.

Congratulations to Janette Kim on receiving the 2023 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York! The award spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design voices that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Click for full video of Janette’s lecture.

This panel discussion asked how narratives of property can be recast in relation to justice and liberation for BIPOC people, and to grapple with the entanglements, responsibilities, and risks brought forward by climate change. Speakers: Emanuel Admassu, Keller Easterling, David Fortin, and Brittany Utting, with James Graham and Janette Kim, moderators.

Property in Crisis (Janette Kim’s Fall 2020 Advanced Studio) is being exhibited at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 curated by Dominique Perrault, in the “Global Studios” exhibition curated by Archiworkshop at Dongdaemun Design Plaza.

Please join students from CCA’s Architecture Division in conversation with Gregory Jackson, Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. We will ask Jackson about his work on collective decision-making and cooperative-ownership in East Oakland, to understand how urban economies can be reshaped to support community ownership and power-sharing.

Please join students from CCA’s Architecture Division in conversation with Gregory Jackson, Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. We will ask Jackson about his work on collective decision-making and cooperative-ownership in East Oakland, to understand how urban economies can be reshaped to support community ownership and power-sharing.

Please join students from CCA’s Architecture Division in conversation with Marquita Price, Director of Urban and Regional Planning at the East Oakland Collective. We will ask Price about her involvement in the East Oakland Neighborhoods Initiative, which organized a neighborhood-driven planning process in Deep East Oakland to build a just transition from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members.

This book launch celebrates the publication of two books by the Urban Works Agency: Apocalypse Now! Project for the Post Retail City and Designing a Just City. Join the editors, student authors and a panel of contributors to explore what it takes to make the city open: open to interpretation, open for business, open for self-determination, and open as public space.

This conference reflects on #UrbanismBeyondCorona, a series of Instagram posts initiated by the Urban Works Agency and the Experimental History Project at CCA. The conference will begin with a multiple, concurrent roundtable discussions involving series participants connected by theme, and conclude with a keynote lecture by Giovanna Borasi.

Entanglements Series at the Cooper Union | Janette Kim + Lydia Kallipoliti, “Beneath the Dome and Outside the Closed World.”

Professors Christopher Roach and Christina Cho Yoo were asked to speak at an online event hosted by SPUR titled Examining the Post-Retail City. The event highlighted the studio taught by Christopher and Christina this past Spring titled, Apocalypse Now!

The Exploratorium and California College of the Arts are pleased to present Bartertown. Join us to play this life-size board game on climate change and social resilience, with game designer Janette Kim of CCA’s Urban Works Agency. RSVP to Play.

Janette Kim is presenting her work on property and rising seas at the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture “Black-Boxing Banham” conference (Sat Mar 21) organized by Todd Gannon and Michael Osman, and the “Power at the Margins” conference at UC Berkeley (Sat Mar 14). 

Janette Kim is presenting her work on property and rising seas at the “Power at the Margins” conference at UC Berkeley (Sat Mar 14). 

The Home Economics studio (B.Arch, spring 2020) field trip this year went to three sites around San Francisco that revealed unique forces guiding urban economics and domestic life: Chinatown, Central SOMA, and Upper Haight. Organized by CCA instructor Julia Grinkrug.

Join us to play Bartertown, a board game that explores how networks of sociability and care can adapt to climate change and other disasters, like a market crash or even a divorce. The game was created as a new kind of decision-making tool for a warming world, one that fosters new relationships between economies, design and the public. RSVP to play.

On Thursday, February 20th, 2:30-5:30 Christina Cho and Christopher Roach will run a workshop hosted by SPUR with a wide variety of urban professionals to address the retail crisis and use it as an opportunity to re-think the ground floor of the city.

Students in B.Arch Studio 4 Home Economics studio joined CCA Professors Julia Grinkrug, Janette Kim and Alex Yuen and guest critic Anna Puigjaner of MAIO and Columbia University to create a long section drawing showing how the management of the home links to economics of the city. 

Janette Kim presented The Estuary Commons, UWA’s contribution to the Resilient by Design Challenge at SPUR this October. Photo: Claire Bonham-Carter

Immerse yourself in the struggles of “Bartertown,” a game and fictional land that asks how new networks of care and sociability can emerge in a world without money. This event stages Bartertown as a life-size board game, in which players must brave disasters such as climate change, a stock market crash or even a divorce.