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.
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.