The Guerrilla Coffee Unit (GCU) refutes the gentrified, high end coffee-laden streetscapes by creating a free urban kitchen table and sanctuary for the city’s ever-more visible unhoused population. It creates a new safe space to converse, listen and tell stories by giving someone on the street a literal place to sit, a warm cup of coffee, and someone to listen to. The Guerilla Noodle Cart takes this one step further and allows for the serving of a hot meal.
As a tool for advocacy it allows students to get to know unhoused folks and hear their stories, building empathy and creating stronger designers. The GCU/GNU were deployed for the Advocacy in Design Studio and the Lava Mae Pop up Care Village in San Francisco.
“Guerilla Coffee Unit” published in ︎︎︎PLAT Journal 7.0
“We belong here” ︎︎︎ Paper and Workshop at the ACSA Conference Less Talk : More Action 2019, Stanford University
A collaboration between:
Faculty: Sameena Sitabkhan, Doron Serban
Students: Stella Buckmann de Lima Netto, Yuanyuan Chen, Pablo Delarosa, Raul Higuera, Woohyung Kim, Erick Luna, Wenjie Lie, Zed Malmoux, Benjy Michel, Adam Nuru, Andrae Sanders ,Markish Siojo, Nahoua Christian Jean-Raymond Sorho, Carrarheina Tjoa, Francisco Toca-Madri, Robert Villanueva, Bobby Wijaya, Yang Xi, Shuangrong Zhong
Code Tenderloin
Lava Mae
As a tool for advocacy it allows students to get to know unhoused folks and hear their stories, building empathy and creating stronger designers. The GCU/GNU were deployed for the Advocacy in Design Studio and the Lava Mae Pop up Care Village in San Francisco.
“Guerilla Coffee Unit” published in ︎︎︎PLAT Journal 7.0
“We belong here” ︎︎︎ Paper and Workshop at the ACSA Conference Less Talk : More Action 2019, Stanford University
A collaboration between:
Faculty: Sameena Sitabkhan, Doron Serban
Students: Stella Buckmann de Lima Netto, Yuanyuan Chen, Pablo Delarosa, Raul Higuera, Woohyung Kim, Erick Luna, Wenjie Lie, Zed Malmoux, Benjy Michel, Adam Nuru, Andrae Sanders ,Markish Siojo, Nahoua Christian Jean-Raymond Sorho, Carrarheina Tjoa, Francisco Toca-Madri, Robert Villanueva, Bobby Wijaya, Yang Xi, Shuangrong Zhong
Code Tenderloin
Lava Mae