As part of Public Knowledge, this monthly series casts SFMOMA as a venue for discussing public issues. What does it mean to design with communities in mind? CCA professors Shalini Agrawal and Chris Treggiari will address this question, drawing on their long-term collaboration with Mission Neighborhood Resource Center. They will explore the importance of taking creative and inclusive approaches when working in the public interest, and discuss how a hybrid practice that combines methods from archi...
As part of Public Knowledge, this monthly series casts SFMOMA as a venue for discussing public issues. What does it mean to design with communities in mind? CCA professors Shalini Agrawal and Chris Treggiari will address this question, drawing on their long-term collaboration with Mission Neighborhood Resource Center. They will explore the importance of taking creative and inclusive approaches when working in the public interest, and discuss how a hybrid practice that combines methods from architecture, art and design can allow for new ideas to emerge that better address community needs.
Shalini Agrawal is the Director of the Center for Art +Public Life and teaches in Interior Design, Individualized and Interdisciplinary Studies at the California College of the Arts. Trained as an architect, Shalini has over 20 years of experience facilitating multi-disciplinary design workshops between participants of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic statuses. Her professional practice, MAC Studio Landscape Architecture, engages communities in design. MAC Studio has been selected to complete San Francisco Unified School District Green School yards for public schools. Under her leadership, the Center for Art + Public Life has been awarded the AIA San Francisco Community Alliance Award in Education.
Chris Treggiari's artistic practice investigates how art can penetrate the public realm by connecting a wide range of people, neighborhoods,and communities. Chris co-curated âOakland, I want you to knowâ¦â at the Oakland Museum of California in 2016, an exhibition that engaged in the conversation about gentrification in Oakland and the Bay Area. He has been an artist in-residence at the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts. Chris has shown internationally at the Venice Biennale in 2012 as well at Torrance Art Museum, the Getty, Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose.
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