OddYard Zine



Our Mission

OddYard is a student-run, independently funded publication that strives to provide an interaction between art and the city. We want to understand, analyze, and apply urban design and architecture to our everyday lives. One objective is to learn and research; take in all the necessary information to be well equipped and informed for our environment, to design, to build. We hope to take and apply this information to research, writing and art, creating a product whose language is understandable.

Because we are new to this topic of research, green in the field of urban design, we decided to focus on the needs of ourselves and our peers. Our research, art and writing is aimed at building a framework for change in the urban environment; looking at ways to shift the relationship between planner and user. Our observations on how people interact with the urban environment is the base for our research. Our work is starting small with the intent to widen in scope.

Above all, we aim to display as broad a spectrum of people and issues as possible. We will purposefully use this medium for voices of POC, people living with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and others whose voices have been marginalized in the history of Western urban design.

With this in common, members of OddYard step forward to become engaged and active within the urban environment through art, action, research and writing.



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Issue 01

Necessities - Water is Life: Water in California’s Central Valley 

Security I - On What We Take to the Grave: a visual representation of the transition from 3D to 2D storage spaces 

Security II - The Potential of the American Rest Stop: An Investigation of Preventative Resources 

Belonging - Queer Anti-Urbanism with Artist Greta Boney 

Esteem - Malls: A Shell of the Past 

Self Actualization I - The Origins of Single Family Housing in Berkeley 

Self Actualization II
- Trash bags, Ladders, and Plastic Leaves: Real Dorm Living 

Editors: Stella Singer, Arielle Steere, Jakob Morgan 
Design: Stella Singer, Arielle Steere 

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