A radio station dedicated to music for walking through the city and dusty ballads for staring out the window.
55,000 miles and 416 colorful pages through America.
An online tool that helps people shape the development of their neighborhoods.
Collecting residents’ hopes and memories of a neglected building in Alaska.
A public art project that invites your neighbors to share what is most important to them.
Talked to CBS’s SmartPlanet about dignity, cities, and our new storefront. They asked, “What is Civic Center doing now that reflects the way public space has changed in the past 50 years?”
“The Walkman changed the way we understand cities,” said William Gibson. “I first heard Joy Division on a Walkman, and I remain unable to separate the experience of the music’s bleak majesty from the first heady discovery of the pleasures of musically encapsulated fast-forward urban motion.”
Candy will speak at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, in collaboration with the Black Rock Arts Foundation and the Black Rock Design Institute.
Come over and watch it with us. The studio should be swept up and relatively clean. Light refreshments will be served.
Transform your community into a place to share dreams with your neighbors.
55,000 miles and 416 colorful pages through America.
A limited edition silkscreen poster.
Remember the important things at home.
A public art project that invites residents to provide civic input on-site.
Civic Center blends art, design, education, and urban planning to create tools that help people navigate and improve their cities. We create public art installations as well as print and digital materials. If you're interested in working together, say hello@civiccenter.cc.
We conduct workshops and give talks about cities and design. If you'd like to invite Civic Center to speak or conduct a workshop, please contact hello@civiccenter.cc. If you're interested in having Candy Chang speak at an event, please contact The Lavin Agency.
We believe that public spaces should inspire conversation, make the machinery of the city more accessible, and restore a sense of dignity to the public realm. For press inquiries please contact james@civiccenter.cc.
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Civic Center is a creative studio that sparks citywide conversations about the design of our neighborhoods.
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3067 North Rampart
