We've Never Done This Before

Where Design Meets the Sidewalk In Episode three, we go behind the scenes of Los Angeles' Sidewalk and Transit Amenities Program (STAP), an ambitious effort to bring 3,450 new bus shelters across the city. Through personal stories, unexpected challenges, and lessons from the field, the episode explores what it takes to rethink everyday infrastructure around the people who use it.

In our second episode, we step inside Studio One Eleven’s downtown Long Beach workplace, an adaptive reuse project that became a living experiment in community-driven design. Partners Alan Pullman and Michael Bohn, alongside team members and collaborators, share how the move from a disconnected high-rise to a vacant storefront reshaped not only their workplace, but the surrounding neighborhood. Wh...

In our first episode, we head to Long Beach’s 4th Street Retro Row, a lively commercial corridor defined by independent businesses and a strong sense of community. Studio One Eleven Partner Alan Pullman joins Kathleen Schaaf and Kersten Kansteiner, longtime business owners on the strip, to share how a connection sparked by a city-issued call for proposals grew into a collaborative façade improveme...