Alaa Khaled and Salwa Rashad have been interested in how various immigrant populations, and particularly Arab immigrants, have shaped and been shaped by Los Angeles’s cultural, economic, architectural and environmental landscape. Khaled and Rashad framed [...]

The Isle, Sunset Square at Kish Island, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2009
Photo Credit: Joshua White
While in Los Angeles, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi researched Los Angeles-based Iranian satellite television stations for a video [...]

Alexia Leon Public Presentation, 4/7/09
Alexia Leon focused upon questions on how the desert environment has shaped the development of both Lima and Los Angeles, and its implications for future development. Ms. Lima worked on her [...]

XIangning Li, Public Presentation, 1/21/08
As an urban theorist, Xiangning Li is concerned with the transplantation, application, adaptation and distortion of Western models in China. During his UFI residency, Li expanded his research on this [...]

MAK Day Walkthrough of UFI Fellow Ismail Farouk’s exhibition, “Cancelled without Prejudice,” 11/5/08. Farouk at left with MAK Center Director Kimberli Meyer
During his time in Los Angeles, Ismail Farouk identified and documented patterns of [...]

Urban Think Tank Public Presentation, 8/13/08. Luis Efrén Santana (left center) and co-presenter Marcelo R. Elola (left, foreground) with guests
A member of Urban Think Tank (U-TT), the multi-disciplinary design practice based in Caracas, Venezuela, [...]

Marco Kusumawijaya and guests, Public Presentation, 6/4/08
Marco Kusumawijaya’s research concerns the various social, cultural and political possibilities for creating more sustainable cities. Kusumawijaya recognizes that sustainability will require changing both the city’s habitat, or [...]