During a three-week period, a transparent truck served as a mobile talk show set to visit each of the city’s 90 neighborhoods to interview 267 residents about their opinions, histories, and aspirations for their community.

Clients: City of Pittsburgh

Partners: Pittsburgh Department of City Planning, Urban Design Associate

Artists: Jon Rubin, Nina Sarnelle

TALKPGH was an element of DesignPGH and ARTPGH. Art Builds Community, formally known as Barbara Goldstein & Associates, recruited the artists who engaged neighbors in helping to envision Pittsburgh’s future and inform the public art and urban design elements of the city’s comprehensive plan.

Artists Jon Rubin and Nina Sarnelle developed the idea of hosting a mobile talk show in a transparent-sided truck to hear from people who usually don’t attend community meetings and help policymakers develop the public art and urban design sections of Pittsburgh’s comprehensive master plan for the next 25 years of growth.