Schools & Projects

GATHERING AROUND THE LYLE CENTER
A youth education project on urban wildlife, biodiversity, habitat, and conservation done through educational signage, sculpture, and website integration.

Mutual Blue Futures
Using art to creatively translate key climate strategies and objectives.

BAG/GET: PHASE 2 Software that builds on last year’s success to get fresher food faster to 46 million of our neighbors in need.

PURE WATER, SHARED FUTURE: EQUITY-CENTERED MARKETING FOR RECLAIMED WATER An equity-driven marketing campaign designed to increase comfort levels around drinking water reclaimed from LA’s sewers and streets.

Hydrogen Station Marketing
Rebranding and revitalizing the Cal State LA Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility through strategic marketing and outreach.

Stories for Sustainability: Whispers of the Coast and the Path to Impact
A project to uncover forgotten voices of Long Beach through audio storytelling and empower involvement with the city’s unique ocean-urban interface.

Voyage to Sustainability and Shoreline Safari
Building on the legacy of the Queen Mary ocean liner to educate and inspire for sustainability and using augmented reality to transform Shoreline Village into an interactive aquatic experience.

ORIGINLA
Got more homegrown produce than you can eat? Use a digital platform to distribute it among neighbors.

SECOND BITE: LOS ANGELES
Harvesting large-scale, regional events for excess food and getting it to people in need.

FROM ORGANIC WASTE TO ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION
You knew there had to be a better way to compost. This is it!

Stories of Sustainable San Fernando Valley
A project that uses storytelling to thicken the connective tissue of LA’s San Fernando Valley, promoting healing, restoration, and more resilient communities.

ADOBE WALL
An innovative wall system that maintains a constant temperature of 68-72 degrees fahrenheit within a single family residence.

SHOWER OF GRACE Transforming a trailer into a mobile shower station for the unhoused.

Eco-Lab
A mobile hub of inspiration and resources for community-led architecture, landscape, and urban design that targets struggling urban areas.

Housing the Gardener: A DIY Kit
A community-powered housing initiative that turns LA’s empty lots into sustainable homes and green spaces with a low-cost, roll-up-the-sleeves approach.

Mount Meadow
Replacing campus lawn with a dense, native-plant meadow that supports biodiversity and strengthens ecological connections with the nearby Santa Monica Mountains.

Climate Migration and Faith: Phase 2
A communication and action plan for church leaders to mobilize community engagement around the challenges of climate migration.

Biophilia Treehouse: Phase 3
Art, science, and education coalesce in an outdoor laboratory for biodiversity.

The Pando Mobile Water Lab
A series of photographic storytelling workshops and deliverables designed to help us reimagine our relationship with the life force on which we and the rest of the natural world depends: water. 

Charrette for an Eco-Design Masterplan
Reimagining the Sisters of Social Services’ 11-acre campus in LA’s Encino neighborhood in light of Pope Francis’s “integral ecology” and LA County’s sustainability goals.

TEST PLOT: RAINBOW CANYON COMMUNITY CROSSROADS Transforming landcare traditions to address modern challenges and unite communities.