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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/14/22

Energy Democracy

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 12/15/21 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 12/15/21

Visions to Victory

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/15/15 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 10/15/15

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 9/30/15 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 9/30/15

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 9/14/15 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 9/14/15

Legacies of the Street

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.

Shalem Aboody-Lopez 2/14/15 Shalem Aboody-Lopez 2/14/15

#StreetsHaveStories

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.

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Pedal2Parks

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.