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The Urban Culture Institute Fellowship Program

The Urban Culture Institute Fellowship Program offers internships and field work opportunities that foments the organization’s role as a professional practice engaged in interdisciplinary dialog, research, writing and education. Our intellectually rigorous program provides a framework for connecting Fellows with the Institute's existing, ongoing programs and academic discourse, employing best practice standards for public art and urban culture, placemaking and related fields.

Fellows are invited to join the Urban Culture Institute’s team to work on ongoing projects and initiatives or propose their own, independent research projects. Fellows work with Christina Lanzl, Ph.D., of the Urban Culture Institute and adjunct faculty for history, theory and culture as well as urbanism with a focus on placemaking in the Department of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Interested candidates send an email identifying a planned area of research or project proposal, along with a current resume and a portfolio of previous work or a writing sample.

The fellowship program offers networking and mentoring opportunities, professional feedback, logistics and administrative support. Potential research areas at the core of the Urban Culture Institute’s activities, interests and research include:
  • Arts and cultural programming in public places
  • All aspects of temporary and permanent public art
  • Cultural planning
  • Placemaking
  • Quality of life issues
  • Sustainable approaches and materials for the built environment
  • Partnerships and public participation
  • Community development
  • Advocacy
  • Project-based learning

Urban Culture Institute Fellows and Interns:
  • External Thesis Advisor, Verónica Colmenares, Master’s Program in Dynamics of Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Management (DYCLAM), University Jean-Monnet | Summer 2018
  • Placemaking Through Manipulating Spaces, Thorsten Sterbenz, Master of Architecture, Wentworth Institute of Technology | Spring 2018
  • Sophomore Architecture Coop Semester, Shuxin Huang, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Wentworth Institute of Technology | Spring 2018
  • Placemaking Concepts for Landscape Architecture, Thu Ngan Han, Project Landscape Designer, Stantec | Fall 2015
  • Berlin’s Spreepark: A Think Tank Investigation, ​Julia Ebert, Master of Arts, Social and Business Communication, Berlin University of the Arts | 2012
  • Berlin’s Spreepark: A Think Tank Investigation, ​Caro Stöckermann, Master of Arts, Strategic Communication and Planning, Berlin University of the Arts | Summer 2012 
  • Berlin’s Spreepark: A Think Tank Investigation, ​Mari Emori, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Spring 2012
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