About — Ulap Kollective

ULAP was founded in 2020 as an exploration of the intrinsic relationships between cultures and landscapes, particularly the narratives of Filipino migrants in Daly City and the surrounding landscape of San Bruno Mountain.

We believe that the landscape should be a meaningful reflection of community and should serve as a point of engagement and edification. And we believe experimental and creative approaches are needed to connect communities, both human and ecological, at the margins.

Our Approach

ULAP works with local organizations to provide an array of programs and resources that weave the narratives of people with their surrounding natural landscapes.

Our projects include:

Workshops/activities with local nonprofits/orgs as opportunities for interface, reflection, and education re local ecology.
Testing planting/seeding/site management strategies in unique ecological and cultural conditions.
Working with local designers, artists, and educators to develop proposals for the landscape to engage with the cultural values of the SF Bay Area community and site stewardship.

Our collective is led by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ organizers.

What is Ulap?

Ulap envelops the culture and ecology of San Bruno Mountain and Daly City. It’s a phenomenon created by our providential meeting of cold water and warm earth and thousands of rice cookers turning on for our daily meals. We embrace this mythology of the fog: it weaves the nourishment of our families with the nourishment of the unique, sensitive habitat of the mountain.

Fog reaches across Daly City’s landscape from the concrete/asphalt of parking lots to the untended landscapes on the city’s edges. It rolls from the rugged coastline, up sandy dunes, and settles among the towering eucalyptus of San Bruno Mountain.