Cities

The role of the arts in the future of cities is a vibrant topic, and a fraught topic. Explore past and contemporary debates on the design of cities, on place-making, and on gentrification, whether in our own Bay Area or in urban destinations throughout the world. 

Spring 2023 Schedule Archive: A+D Thursday

Spring 2023 Schedule
A+D Thursdays: Video Art in Context

 

Fall 2022 Schedule Archive

Fall 2022 Schedule Archive: A+D Thursdays

Fall 2022 Schedule
A+D Thursdays: Creativity in Practice

 

Thursday, September 1, 12:45pm

Fall 2022 Schedule Archive: A+D Fridays

Fall 2022 Schedule
A+D Fridays: A Year on Angel Island

 

Spring 2022 Schedule Archive: Arts + Design Fridays

Spring 2022 Schedule
Arts + Design Fridays: Perseverance, Renewal, and Reflection in a Changing World

 

In case you were wondering how the Berkeley Art Museum, a Brutalist structure close to Northern California’s Hayward Fault, was converted into a new state-of-the-art incubator lab, a simple answer can be found in the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub’s new logo (by design firm twoxfour), on which an abstraction of the building’s unusual radial floor plan h

Berkeley’s ongoing discussion to create 9,000 homes over the next decade will include plans to accommodate artists with affordable housing that meets their needs, including flexible live-work spaces throughout the city.

Some of Berkeley’s most recognizable blocks are poised for a major makeover.

On Monday, Telegraph for People, a campus advocacy group for a car-free Telegraph Avenue, released its illustrated plan for Telegraph Avenue entitled “Option Five.”

 

On chilly Saturday, winter graduates turn to their future

Xander Young was just a few weeks into his first semester at UC Berkeley in March 2020 when in-person life ended and he, and all his fellow classmates, moved classes, clubs and college comradery online.