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