The Architectural Ecologies Lab is partnering with the Exploratorium and the San Francisco Urban Film Festival for the March 9 event “After Dark: Integrating Ecologies,” part of the Exploratorium’s weekly series of Thursday night programming.
How We Hear Now is a participatory, collective artwork created by The ECOPOESIS Project, a multi-year initiative led by the Architectural Ecologies Lab and MFA in Writing program at California College of the Arts. The project was initiated in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a response by the Ecopoesis Project to continue their collaborative explorations of emotions and thought towards action around climate change. It will be on view as a large-scale public projection at the San Francisco Ferry Building from June 25 to July 10, 2021.
CCA Architectural students will share projects from the fall semester Buoyant Ecologies: Urban Ecotones at Islais Creek Studio and suggest scalable approaches to piloting a community demonstration project in Bayview Hunters Point with Malcom X Academy 4th grade students.
Please join us for the opening of the virtual exhibition of work produced in the fall 2020 studio Buoyant Ecologies: Urban Ecotones at Islais Creek and the 4th grade class from Malcom X Academy in Bayview.
This exhibition is a window into how 4th graders from Malcolm X Academy in Bayview Hunters Point were given a remote platform in the 2020 fall semester, through the creativity of their teacher, Y-PLAN, SF NOMA and SF Planning, to be valued leaders of environmental justice in their community. It is also a model of how college students of architecture, from the California College of the Arts, learned to engage with these 4th graders, to listen to them, and to give a voice to their experience through practical and inspired architectural actions.
This exhibition is about ecologies (or ecosystems) and design. It features student visualizations of the beauty of the logic of the bio-systems addressed in their design work. The exhibition includes work by students across CCA’s Architecture, Design, and Fine Arts divisions.
On January 27, CCA will host a public event showcasing the work of students from a number of Bay Area schools participating in the Resilient By Design Bay Area Challenge, a year-long research and design effort to develop innovative responses to the effects of climate change in the Bay Area.
Please join us on March 31 for the opening of the Buoyant Ecologies exhibition at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition displays the work by students from the fall 2014 CCA Architecture Integrated Studio taught by faculty Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda, and Evan Jones. The studio explored speculative proposals for a floating expansion of Autodesk's state-of-the-art Pier 9 Workshop along San Francisco's Embarcadero waterfront. The opening event included short talks by CCA Dean of Architecture Jonathan Massey, project leaders Marcus/Ikeda/Jones, Noah Weinstein and J. Sassaman of Autodesk, ecology research partner John Oliver of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, and fabrication research partner Bill Kreysler of Kreysler & Associates.