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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 02




Spring 2023
46 pages 
12 articles 
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We Leap from research to action.

We asked out contributors to explore instances of urban intervention woven into the urban fabric by youth, nonprofessionals, artists, and radicals.

We traverse Hong Kong, Los Angeles, subways and raves woven deep beneath cities, and scale statuesque buildings. This issue explores the multiplicity, accessibility, and flexibility of urban action.

As young, curious people, there are no limits to what we can contribute to our cities.

Here we are, bigger and better than ever.