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Nubes Chen

Arts Culture and Humanities Planner II  

Department: Arts & Culture
Email: [email protected]


Biography:

As an Arts, Culture and Humanities Planner at MAPC, Nubes collaborates with communities, municipalities, and urban planners on arts, culture, heritage, and public humanities projects. She brings experience in cultural planning, placemaking, and creative engagement to create a more participatory planning environment, promote more equitable cultural representation in space, and build more resilient communities.

Before joining MAPC, Nubes worked as a creative community planner in Los Angeles developing strategies and methods of context-responsive engagement, creative mapping, and storytelling to reshape and educate community history, amplify local culture, and build community trust and self-determination for urban projects in marginalized communities. Nubes also worked as a regional planning consultant in China for four years, where she delivered numerous projects of historic and cultural district planning, tourism planning, and urban governance for various cities. In this role, she explored strategies to balance cultural heritage preservation and economic development and promote cultural participation.

As a professional, researcher, and advocate for placekeeping, Nubes is experienced in the collection of oral histories and community organization. She is also passionate about understanding the interaction of public memory and space and using socially engaged art to collectively reclaim, redefine, and rebuild a community.

Nubes holds a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy with a concentration in Arts and Culture and a B.A. in Economics and Business.

Areas of Expertise: Arts and cultural planning, placemaking and placekeeping, creative community engagement, creative mapping, ethnographic studies, data analysis