THE IMPACT BEHIND THE STORIES.
Our role as artists, planners, and designers is not to dictate solutions but to shape the conditions where storytelling elevates community knowledge and visions, allowing them to meaningfully influence decisions. Below are featured stories and the real-world impact they’ve made.
This project aimed to identify community members’ top transit priorities and the challenges they face due to disparities in service, operations, amenities, and programs.
Pueblo Studio partnered with City Heights CDC to create a narrative curation project centered on the voices of local entrepreneurs.
In partnership with Leap LA Coalition and Physicians for Social Responsibility–Los Angeles, Pueblo Studio facilitated a series of art-based education and listening sessions on building decarbonization with Indigenous peoples.
Pueblo Studio partnered with four Southeastern San Diego community-based organizations and local residents to co-develop a Community-Driven Mobility Roadmap.
Pueblo Studio partnered with City Heights Community Development Corporation (CDC) to curate and visually tell the 35-year history of the community’s advocacy against the development of the SR15 freeway.
Pueblo Studio, in partnership with LISC San Diego, led the development of the City Heights Inclusive Economic Recovery and Resilience Agenda.
Pueblo Studio partnered with the City of Long Beach to co-create a Digital Inclusion Roadmap with community members and local Community-Based Organizations (CBOs).
After the Los Angeles Police Department began prohibiting street vending in the area—citing concerns about pedestrian flow—Pueblo Studio worked directly with vendors to ensure their voices shaped the future of the space.
The Bend Central District Initiative (BCDI), a project of Central Oregon LandWatch (COLW), worked to build broad, effective support for policies that advanced an inclusive, dense, and mixed-use neighborhood in the Bend Central District—one connected by safe, sustainable mobility options.
These storytelling sessions directly shaped and informed the City of West Hollywood’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, ensuring that the strategies it proposed were grounded in Indigenous teachings, priorities, and calls to action.
Pueblo Studio partnered with residents of the West Adams neighborhood in Los Angeles and the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute to explore how community storytelling can meaningfully shape planning decisions and transform the built environment.
Pueblo Studio partnered with Los Angeles Walks and Southern California Families for Safe Streets to create a deeply participatory and healing event for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
The goal of this project was to deepen understanding of women’s experiences and travel needs so Metro could enhance safety, reliability, and overall comfort for women using transit.
Pueblo Studio partnered with Public Matters to coordinate four community-led bike trains that converged simultaneously at Los Angeles State Historic Park spotlighting the need for safer, more accessible bike routes to the park.
Pueblo Studio partnered with Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) to co-develop a suite of popular education materials and facilitation guides that are now being used by communities across the country to advance energy democracy.