Story-based Strategy

Dec 21

Pueblo Studio creates spaces where communities can share their stories in ways that feel authentic, dignified, and healing. Through one-on-one interviews, collective art-making, small group conversations, and storytelling circles, participants are invited to reflect on their lived experiences and visions for change. These sessions can be documented through notes, audio, video, and portrait photography, capturing the richness and diversity of each story.

As stories are shared, common threads and deeper themes emerge—helping communities see the collective narratives that shape their identities and movements. Pueblo Studio supports groups in understanding and articulating these emergent narratives to guide cultural strategy, community visioning, planning, and policy development.

Let's partner on a project

Featured Projects

Featured

MTS Social Equity Listening Tour

This project aimed to identify community members’ top transit priorities and the challenges they face due to disparities in service, operations, amenities, and programs.

City Heights: Stories of Resilience

Pueblo Studio partnered with City Heights CDC to create a narrative curation project centered on the voices of local entrepreneurs.

Building Decarbonization

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.

Southeastern Community Driven Mobility Roadmap

Pueblo Studio partnered with four Southeastern San Diego community-based organizations and local residents to co-develop a Community-Driven Mobility Roadmap.

City Heights Economic Recovery and Resilience Agenda

Pueblo Studio, in partnership with LISC San Diego, led the development of the City Heights Inclusive Economic Recovery and Resilience Agenda.

Long Beach Digital Inclusion Roadmap

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).

Street Vendors and Public Space

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.

Belonging: Bend Central District Initiative

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.

West Hollywood Climate Action and Adaptation Plan

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.

Understanding How Women Travel

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez

Story-based Strategy

Featured Projects

Multimedia Narrative Curation