Urban Future Initiative Related Organizations
Community Redevelopment Agency
http://www.crala.net/
The CRA is an organization dedicated to revitalizing, refurbishing, and renewing economically underserved areas of Los Angeles.
Farmlab
http://farmlab.org/
Farmlab is a think tank, art production studio, and cultural performance venue in Chinatown.
Friends of the LA River
http://folar.org/
FOLAR is an organization that protects and restores the natural and historic heritage of the Los Angeles River and its habitat through inclusive planning, education, and wise stewardship.
Green Building Resource Center
http://www.globalgreen.org/gbrc/index.htm
GBRC is a an organization dedicated to educating the public on sustainable living matericals and design.
LA Freewaves
http://www.freewaves.org/
LA Freewaves is a grassroots yet global arts organization that connects innovative, relevant, independent new media from around the world.
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
www.welcometolace.org
LACE is an arts organization for work that is new, untested, and experimental.
Latino Urban Forum
http://www.latinourbanforum.com/
LUF is an advocacy group of architects, planners and activists, which deals with Latino settlement patterns in the U.S.
LAXART
http://www.laxart.org/
LAXART is Los Angeles’ leading independent contemporary art space, producing experimental exhibitions, publications and public art initiatives.
Los Angeles Forum for Art and Architecture
http://www.laforum.org/
LA Forum is an organization that plays a vital role in Los Angeles by initiating and supporting events, publications, and symposia in this city and beyond.
Machine Project
http://machineproject.com/
Machine Project provides educational resources to people working with technology and collaborates with artists to produce site-specific works.
Materials and Applications
http://www.emanate.org/
M&A is a research center dedicated to pushing new and underused ideas for art, landscape and architecture into view.
Radical Cartography
http://www.radicalcartography.net/
Raqs Media Collective
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/
Raqs is a group of three media practicioners based out of New Delhi focused on documentary filmmaking.
Sarai
http://www.sarai.net/
A space for research, practice, and conversation about the contemporary media and urban constellations.
South Central Farmers
http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/
SCF was an urban farm and community garden located at East 41st and South Alameda Streets in an industrial area of South Los Angeles, California, which was later sold in a contentious battle, and relocated.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
http://www.storefrontnews.org/
Storefront explores vital issues in art and architecture with the intent of increasing awareness of and interest in contemporary design.
Sundown Schoolhouse
http://www.fritzhaeg.com/schoolhouse.html
Sundown Schoolhouse supports happenings, events, and classes in collaboration with Los Angeles artists and thinkers.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
http://www.clui.org/
CLUI is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues.
UCLA Institute of the Environment
http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/
The Institute of the Environment’s mission is to generate knowledge and provide solutions for regional and global environmental problems and to educate the next generation of professional leadership committed to the health of our planet.
University of Southern California School of Architecture
American Academy in China
http://arch.usc.edu/Connections/AmericanAcademyinChina
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Related Projects and Blogs
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
http://www.an-atlas.com/
An Atlas of Radical Cartography provides a critical foundation for an area of work that bridges art/design, cartography/geography, and activism.
Bidoun Magazine
http://bidoun.com/
Bidoun is a magazine based out of NY which deals with art and culture from the Middle East.
Border Reporter
http://borderreporter.com/
A blog that deals with issues of crime and injustice on the U.S.-Mexico border, specializing in intelligence and analysis from the border region.
Critical Spatial Practice
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/
Critical Spatial Practice is a blog that deals with neighborhood issues, displacement, urban space, and geography.
Curbed LA
http://la.curbed.com/
Curbed LA is a blog that covers our sense of place, and the neighborhoods we call home.
Delirious LA
http://www.deliriousla.net/
Delirious LA is a blog about art, architecture and planning issues in Los Angeles.
Fallen Fruit
http://fallenfruit.org/
Fallen Fruit is a collaborative, activist art project that maps public fruit and encourages people to harvest, plant and sample public fruit.
Groundswell
http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/
Groups and Spaces
http://www.groupsandspaces.net/
G&S gathers information on people making art in groups and collaborative situations, groups that run art spaces, and independently run artist spaces and centres.
Islands of LA
http://www.islandsofla.com/
Islands of LA is an art project that utilizes the marginalized yet highly visible public spaces of traffic islands.
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/
A think tank and activist group that organizes and publishes collective books and magazines in Los Angeles.
LA Farm Girl
http://lafarmgirl.blogspot.com/
A blog that deals with urban farm issues, agriculture, and open gardens.
LAist
http://www.laist.com/
LAist speaks to the nature of the city by fervently covering the local music and entertainment industry.
LA TACO
http://www.lataco.com/
LA Taco blogs about LA culture, lifestyle, and happenings.
movingcities
http://movingcities.org/
Movingcities is a Beijing-based think-thank investigating the role that architecture and urbanism play in shaping the contemporary city.
Metroblogging LA
http://la.metblogs.com/
The largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web. It functions as an alternative news source in Los Angeles.
Polar Inertia
http://www.polarinertia.com
Polar Inertia journal is an outlet and a resource for on going research into the networks and patterns that define the contemporary city.
Rebar
http://www.rebargroup.org/
REBAR is an art and design collective based in San Francisco that belies discrete categorization. It is, at minimum, situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity.
Triple Canopy
http://canopycanopycanopy.com/
Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large.
Witness LA
http://witnessla.com/
A blog that reports on street news, views and stories of justice and injustice.
Fellows’ Resources
Jakarta Arts Council
http://www.dkj.or.id
The JAC works with the artists for developing their creativity and art creations; presenting the quality of arts to the public and to maintain, create and develop arts and culture in Jakarta. UFI Fellow Marco Kusumawijaya is the chair of the JAC.
Green Map
http://www.greenmap.org
Green Map promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development worldwide, using mapmaking as its medium. UFI Fellow Marco Kusumawijaya started a Green Map branch in Indonesia.
Urban Think Tank
http://www.u-tt.com
The Urban Think Tank is a multi-disciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture, urbanism. UFI Fellow Efrén Santana is an architect for U-TT in Caracas.
Ismail Farouk
http://www.ismailfarouk.com
UFI Fellow, Ismail Farouk’s blog which deals with urban geography and the racial, social, political, and economic injustice in Johannesburg.
Trolley Project
www.trolleyworks.net
Trolley Works is Ismail Farouk’s multi-disciplinary art project, which seeks to regulate trolley-pushing activity in downtown Johannesburg.
Tongji University College of Architecture
http://www.tongji.edu.cn/english
UFI Fellow Xiangning Li is an Associate Professor in the Tongji Architecture School.
Time + Architecture
Xiangning Li has been a guest editor and frequent contributor to the Shanghai-based academic journal.
Urban China
http://www.urbanchina.com.cn/
Urban China is the first real magazine on urbanism in China, and a multidimensional text combining profound issues and simple narration, formal official discourse and vivid folk interpretation.
Alta Tecnologia Andina
http://www.ata.org.pe/
Leondelima
UFI Fellow Alexia Leon’s architecture studio in Lima which functions as a research platform for desert architecture and design.
Pages Magazine
www.pagesproject.net
UFI Fellows Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi’s bilingual Farsi/English magazine which critically examines art, culture, urbanism and social issues with a focus on the particularities of the Iranian context.
Amkenah Magazine
UFI Fellows Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad’s self-funded journal published in Alexandria. The publication is concerned with “the culture of place” addressing the artistic specificity of place.
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