Visiting Speaker and Documentary Film Sally Smith Greenspan of The Enterprise Foundation,  New York + “Designing Healthy Communities”  Dr Richard Jackson, MD, Chair of UCLA’s School of Environment and Public Health.  New documentary film. Thursday February 16, 2:15-4:05 PM.  Location:  Meyer Forum 124. Urban Studies students, faculty and Program friends [...]

Upcoming Events Phone Banking and Tabling: This Tuesday (November 8 ) and Thursday (November 10) from 12-1pm, SSS will be tabling and calling the White Plaza to talk about the Keystone Pipeline.  Stop by to make a call or learn more about Keystone. Seedbank Trip: This Sunday, November 13th the garden [...]

Launched in spring of 2011 we’re now entering our first full year and gathering a circle of student writers and paid student editors. For writers there are many ways you can contribute, from writing a single story to joining a circle of writers who will meet regularly,  be mentored, exchange [...]

On Monday, October 3rd from 6-8pm John Carty (currently the inaugural research fellow at the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art) will give a talk at the Stanford Humanities Center (Board Room).  His talk is titled, “Ecologies of Art: Human and Land Rights in Australian Aboriginal Painting” [...]

If you’re on campus sometime before July 31st, find some time to visit the compelling exhibit of art by the indigenous Martu people of Australia’s Western Desert. Waru! Holding Fire in Australia’s Western Desert is on display in the Thomas Welton Art Gallery on the Stanford campus. If you can’t [...]

At the end of June I had the chance to attend an event called Dwell on Design, an exhibition featuring a slew of modern design ideas and a range of products that included furniture, lighting, textiles, and more.  The expo, hosted by Dwell Magazine – a monthly modernist shelter magazine [...]