2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival

Location

Market St., between 7th St. and Embarcadero

Status

Removed

Date Installed

October 2016

Website

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Designers

Various Artists

Partners

YBCA
San Francisco Public Works
Autodesk
CCA
David Baker Architects
Gray Area
Exploratorium
Arts Commission

Funders

Google Impact Challenge Grant (google.org)
ArtPlace
California Arts Council
The James Irvine Foundation

Sponsors

Cushman Wakefield
Verizon
Autodesk
Dolby
Grosvenor

In-Kind Sponsors

A.C.T.'s Strand Theater
Bay Area Bike Share
Cubert
Detour
JCDecaux
Poll Everywhere
TechShop
The Hall

Bringing new ideas an fun to Market Street

The 2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival showcased 30 installations built by designers, community groups, and students. The Festival aimed to use community-led design to make the Market Street a more vibrant and engaging destination. Through collaboration and rapid experimentation, the Prototypes in this Festival aimed to catalyze conversations around a variety of large-scale urban challenges. Another Prototyping Festival was held in 2015.

Watch a video about MSPF 2016

More about MSPF 2015

San Francisco’s Better Market Street project has gathered extensive community feedback over the past few years with a clear response that the public wants a more vibrant and positive experience on Market Street’s sidewalks. We believe that there is an ongoing need for this sort of experimentation and prototyping. Initiatives like the Prototyping Festival allow all those who are passionate about our city to engage in the civic process and to provide hands-on contributions to solving San Francisco’s biggest challenges.

More about Better Market Street