The City of Los Angeles’s Chief Design Officer, Christopher Hawthorne, launched 3rd LA in 2015 as a series of conversations about the future of the city. As professor of the practice of English at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, he brought the program to USC in January 2020.
Organized by Hawthorne in collaboration with the 3rd LA public-affairs series at USC’s Academy in the Public Square and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Pump to Plug is an initiative designed to curate creative responses to the challenges and opportunities posed — in urban, architectural and environmental terms — by the transition to electrified mobility. It invited eight design teams to produce forward-looking proposals for the design of charging stations, the future of gas station sites across L.A., and charging facilities for an electrified long-haul trucking fleet. The participating teams were: Abalos + Sentkiewicz AS+, Inaba Williams Architects, MOS Architects, Perkins + Will, Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW), and Woods Bagot.
In this video, Hawthorne outlines the results of the event.
The full symposium is available here.
