Previous Grant Projects
2022 Rob Lane ‘09 & Jim Brown ‘09: House of Wise Words, Tijuana, Mexico
Created a facility and planning process for a small community school, which served as a demonstration and model for public schools elsewhere in Tijuana as well as the city as a whole.
2014 Project Update
Rob Bleiburg ‘10 describes how his 2014 alumni grant helped the Colorado West Land Trust provide access to a prized wilderness area for Grand Junction residents
2019 LZ Nunn: A Spark for ArtUp, Lowell, MA
Developed a community engagement plan including a community meeting and focus groups to launch “ArtUp,” a new youth arts and creative place-making initiative organized by Project LEARN
2018 Susan Chin: Plaza Stewards Project, New York, NY
Produce a study of ‘better’ practices for stewardship of community-managed plazas, including inclusive tactics for engaging homeless people.
2018 Jamie Blosser: Santa Fe Midtown District—A Road Map
Help the City of Santa Fe create a meaningful process to equitably redevelop a 64-acre parcel in midtown. Conceptualize governance or finance structures that would optimize the City’s investment in the property.
2017 Richard Reinhard: United Methodist Building—Moments and Messages, Washington, DC
Develop a preliminary concept, design, plan and budget to transform the first floor of the historic United Methodist Building and its grounds into an asset that tells a compelling story as a center of faith-based activism.
2017 Nedra Sims Fears: Greater Chatham Initiative, Chicago, IL
Develop a creative placing making identity for a mixed-use commercial strip located in the Greater Chatham area, which has long been a place of opportunity and choice for Chicago’s middle-and working-class African-American families.
2017 Thaddeus Pawlowski, Johnstown Riverwall Charrette, Johnstown, PA
Helped the city address its crumbling flood wall infrastructure and re-envision its relationship with the river as a force for positive change. Thaddewus Pawlowski (2015), LaShawn Hoffman (2015), Marc Norman (2015), Anne-Marie Lubenau (2012), Charles McKinney (1994), Julie Campoli (2010), Damon Rich (2007).
2015 Richard Reinhart and David Kamp: The Fabric of Health—Green Commons, Buffalo, NY
Brought together community groups to examine the critical intersection of physical development and public health and address the question: “How does this place, this strategy, this policy actively promote health?”
2013 Ana Maria Duran: Yachay—the City of Knowledge Master Plan Improvement, Yachay, Ecuador
Improve the master plan and propose a plan of action for the planned Ecuadoran city of Yachay, where academia, public research institutions, industry and heritage tourism meet.
2013 Steven Lewis: Cultural Tourism in the Greater Watts Community, Los Angeles, CA
Explored the viability of cultural tourism in a historically under served and marginalized community and performed an organizational evaluation of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee.
2013 Helen Marriage & Ann Yoachim: Art Means Business, Durham, England
Brought Loebs to present at a one-day international conference, in Durham (England) during Lumiere, the UK’s largest light festival. The event brought together visionaries and policymakers from the worlds of urban planning, local government and business, inviting them to share ideas for how the creative industries can offer innovative solutions for intractable problems and re-imagine the city of the twenty-
first century.
2012 Julie Campoli: Upstream Downtown - Making Room for the River, Vermont
Brought Loeb Fellows and Vermonters together to discuss how the state’s river-‐based urban centers can thrive in a changing climate. Upstream-‐Downtown events examined how river systems interact with human settlements, using examples of flood resiliency from across the globe.
2012 Damon Rich: Newark Riverfront Summit, Newark, NJ
Six Loeb fellows participated in the first-ever Newark Riverfront Summit, which consisted of a set of three private workshops with civic groups and elected officials, a boat tour with elected officials and residents, and a concluding public conversation and report-out at the Newark Museum.
2012 John Zeisel & David Kamp: Riverside Memory Park, New York, NY
Create an inviting Alzheimer’s-friendly design and implementation plan for a six block area of Riverside Drive
Earlier Grant-funded Projects
2010
The Courage to Manage Change: Building Community Across Difference, a three fellowship collaborative workshop on the power of a thoughtfully designed public realm to bridge difference in Ireland. Michelle Sullivan ‘95
A catalytic mind-bending intervention to stretch local perceptions of public art and to inform the community's best practices research in York, PA. Genevieve Ray ‘79
Physical school planning session with the Sunka Wakan Lakota Cambridge School leaders, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD. Sally Bloom Sidiqqi ‘94
2009
Planning charrette to update the master plan for Park Place, a 12 block Hope VI project, Birmingham, AL. Cathy Sloss Jones ‘07
Technical assistance workshops for enhancing and sustaining San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Fidel Lopez ‘77
Strategic planning for board and staff of Green Belt Alliance of San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Fei Tsen ‘88
2008
A celebration of Portland's seminal landscapes designed by Lawrence Halprin, Portland, OR. Randy Gragg ‘06
EnVISIONing ANNAPOLIS: Post Charette Assessment, Annapolis, MD. Glenn Smith ‘97 and Miriam Gusevich ‘97.
2007
Green Building Architecture Symposium in Nanjing, China. Marina Stankovic ‘02 and Andreas Wolf ‘07
Whistle Stop Land Use Planning tour, East Palo Alto, CA. Paul Okamoto ‘01
Lentos Town Center Gateway Project community design workshop, Portland OR. Robert Liberty ‘03
Public Art Planning Workshop, Raleigh, NC. Haig Khatchatoorian ‘85
2006
Action for Climate Change conference at the GSD, Cambridge, MA. Robin Chase ‘04
Symposium on Urban Design and Place-making: A Dialogue for Change in Memphis, TN. Ann Coulter ‘03
Strategy meeting of Loebs and other activist architects: how to grow a movement for architecture with a social agenda,, Cambridge, MA. Maurice Cox ‘05
Columbus Metropolitan Club lecture on Building Public Space, to spur conversations about citizen involvement in the public realm, Columbus, OH. Kathy Fox ‘02
Strategic planning session on application of digital technologies and innovative services to enhance integrated, sustainable urban transportation in growing city regions of North America and the world, Ann Arbor, MI. Sue Zielinski ‘05
2005
Panel to explore options for future programming and development of the historic Lincoln Theater on U Street, Washington, DC. Toni Griffin ‘98
How to Shape a Vibrant Downtown, Salt Lake City, UT. Brenda Case Scheer ‘90
Future priorities of Historic Boston, a preservation revolving fund, Boston, MA. Matt Kiefer ‘96
Design Week–lecture, student charrette, and seminar exploring innovations in housing design and development, Budapest Hungary. Terry Curry ‘00
Dialogue among design advocacy groups about how to grow a movement for greater social relevance in architecture. Kathy Dorgan ‘02 and Stephen Goldmith ‘99
2004
Conference Series planning for Restorative Gardens: Places of Ecological and Human Health. David Kamp ‘96
2003
Working Together One Plan Land Use Conference, San Luis, CO. Arnie Valdez ‘02
2002
Community Design Workshop for Near Island and Downtown Kodiak, AL. Leslie Kerr ‘89
Baltimore-Washington Symposium on Technology and the Future of the Region. Andy Lemer ‘93