Oakland, California
Oakland, California
NEW! Click here to see photos - Civic Design Teams Up with Warriors, EBALDC, Castlemont High School
Civic Design Studio works with 6 Oakland Unified High Schools that focus on Architecture, Urban Planning, Carpentry, Digital Fabrication, Fashion and Visual Arts.
As close Industry Partners with OUSD, we connect educators and students with local Universities and professional community partners on all of our projects.
Through innovative community engagement and project planning, together we create large-scale art and design build projects across Oakland.
These projects that all have high levels of educator professional development, student engagement, as well as deep and meaningful public impact.
Civic Design worked over 50 students from Fremont High Architecture and UC Davis Landscape Architecture. We partnered with Oakland Housing Authority to create existing conditions reports and design recommendations for a local low-income residential apartment.
Students presented over 20 different designs in 3D, along with professional level landscaping recommendations.
Thanks to incredible teacher Phong Hoang and coordinator David Maduli, as well as Oakland Housing Authority.
Akonadi/Civic Design - 2019 Racial Justice Poster Project
Over 200 students across 2 OUSD High Schools participated in Akonadi Foundation and Civic Design’s Youth Racial Justice Poster Project.
Winners were showcased at Museum of Children’s Art during an OUSD Arts and Media Student Expo, attended by over 1000 people. They will also be featured in public displays in Old Oakland at the end of summer 2019.
Civic and Akonadi worked together to create a workshop curriculum for teachers that gave history and context to the project. From over 200 submissions, students self-selected 16 finalists to represent their high schools.
Thanks to teachers Rachel Kantor and Robert Smith, as well as Renee Geesler from Akonadi Foundation. Also thanks to CTE Coordinator Daniel Spinka and MOCHA director Nina Woodruff-Walker.
Civic Design Studio worked with Castlemont High School Green Urban Planning, University of San Francisco Architecture, and Oakland Housing Authority to create existing conditions reports and design recommendations for a low-income housing apartment badly in need of redesign.
Students met with residents and each other, sharing work and touring each other's schools to come up with incredible designs.
CLICK HERE TO SEE STUDENT WORK SAMPLES
Thanks to teachers Lillian Jacobson and Seth Watchel, director Tim Bremner, and Oakland Housing Authority.
Civic Design Studio worked with Fremont High School Woodworking and Chinatown merchants to create produce stands that greatly improved storefront appearances in the area.
Across multiple languages, students did onsite visits and brainstormed on designs that merchants contributed to. This is an ongoing project.
Thanks to teacher Drew Prober, coordinator David Maduli, and merchants from New Hop Lung and Yuen Hop Noodles.
Recently had the pleasure of displaying over 40 photographs of OUSD student work at the recent OUSD Summer Internship Fair.
Thanks to coordinator Rocio Cisneros and the property owners of Old Oakland for use of the photos.