Eve Blau presents “Mapping Hybrid Urban Conditions in Postsocialist Europe”
Eve Blau presents “Mapping Hybrid Urban Conditions in Postsocialist Europe” Harvard GSD News 25 November 2013 image: Spatial Information Design Lab, GSAPP, Columbia University Eve Blau presented...
View ArticleInteractive Public Art Map from “See-Through Maps” Online Exhibit...
An interactive, crowdsourced public art map from the Global Urban Humanities Initiative's online See-Through Maps exhibit features data and images about murals, sculptures, and informal art. The...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Urban Pilgrimage
The Global Urban Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce a call for papers on the theme of Urban Pilgrimage. Urban Pilgrimage will be published as a special issue of the UC Berkeley architecture...
View ArticleUC Berkeley and UCLA Complete Year One of Urban Humanities Initiatives
What does the first year of an experiment in the emerging field of urban humanities look like on the campuses of two major public universities? At a recent Los Angeles symposium, it was described by...
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS: PARTICIPATORY URBANISMS
Participatory Urbanisms is a peer-reviewed web publication (limited print run) that seeks to interrogate the “participatory turn” in contemporary urban studies and performance studies, to explore the...
View ArticleSan Leandro interactive lights entertain, collect pedestrian data
San Leandro interactive lights entertain, collect pedestrian data Contra Costa Times by Rebecca Parr 12 December 2014 image: Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group As pedestrians approach, a cluster of globes...
View ArticleDisplaced Art from Evicted Residents of Albany Bulb at “Refuge in...
Displaced Art from Evicted Residents of Albany Bulb at "Refuge in Refuse" KQED Arts by Dani Burlison 11 February 2015 image: Robin Lasser In April 2014, more than two dozen people were evicted from...
View ArticleFaculty, Ph.D. candidates win fellowships for humanities, social science...
Faculty, Ph.D. candidates win fellowships for humanities, social science research Berkeley News by Kathleen Maclay 24 July 2015 The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its 2015...
View ArticleMichael Dear Reflects on Transdisciplinarity in New GeoHumanities Article
Global Urban Humanities teaching faculty and steering committee member Michael Dear has a new piece on practices in the transdisciplinary classroom in the inaugural issue of GeoHumanities, a new...
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Art+Village+City exhibition gives crowds glimpse into art and life in the...
Art+Village+City, an exhibition resulting from an open-ended inquiry into the human condition in the built environment through the interdisciplinary tools of urban studies and the collaborative ethos...
View ArticleOpening a Dialog Between Disciplines
December Student Spotlight Karin Shankar TDPS: Theater, Dance and Performance Studies December, 2015 Image: Akhada (wrestling ground), Gurgaon, India, Credit: White-Mazzarella/Mehta/Grewal 2013...
View ArticleSan Leandro Pedestrians Walk in the Light
San Leandro Pedestrians Walk in the Light San Francisco Magazine by Adam L. Brinklow 2 June 2015 image: Greg Niemeyer Wanting to enliven its downtown and get more data about foot traffic patterns, San...
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P[art]icipatory Urbanisms: Arts of the Global City
P[art]icipatory Urbanisms: Arts of the Global City UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan 1 March 2016 image: Karin Shankar Maps. Sculptures. Lecture halls. Art galleries....
View Article“City of Gold” Offers a Delicious Urban Lens on L.A.
"City of Gold" Offers a Delicious Urban Lens on L.A. UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design News 30 March 2016 image: still from documentary Highly acclaimed by critics, director Laura Gabbert’s...
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Art+Village+City in the Pearl River Delta
Art+Village+City in the Pearl River Delta Frameworks | A Publication of the College of Environmental Design by Trude Renwick and Valentina Rozas-Krause Spring 2016 image: Guangzhou Academy of Art We...
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Mellon Foundation extends funding for Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Mellon Foundation extends funding for Global Urban Humanities Initiative Berkeley News 18 April 2016 by Kathleen Maclay Full original article UC Berkeley’s Global Urban Humanities Initiative will...
View ArticleArt+Village+City Images at Shenzhen Exhibition
Works from "Art+Village+City in the Pearl River Delta," a Global Urban Humanities Initiative interdisciplinary research studio, are included in a current exhibition in Shenzhen titled “Rural-Urban...
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Publication: No Cruising: Mobile Identities and Urban Life
The first Global Urban Humanities research studio, “No Cruising: Mobile Identities and Urban Life” took place in Spring of 2014, co-taught by Margaret Crawford (Architecture) and Anne Walsh (Art...
View ArticleSlavery, Community, Floriculture, Music + Nature @ Berkeley Circus
The 7th annual Berkeley Circus took place on Friday, March 3rd. The Circus showcases the outstanding studio work, professional projects, and research of the CED community including courses sponsored by...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: Global Urban Humanities Initiative GRADUATE Course...
Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Studio Courses for 2018, 2019 and 2020 APPLICATION PERIOD EXTENDED: due November 24, 2017 PDF- CFP Application Information Word Document - Application Cover Sheet...
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