27 Steps

Market Street has always been the venue to voice, protest for, and celebrate for peace; “27 Steps” reminds us of this journey…

Back to Paper

A paper dispenser of cultural content (poem, short story, drawing, comic strip) created by the community at large. Contribute your art and…

Bench Go Round

Bench Go Round playfully re-imagines public seating to create connection between strangers. Bench Go Round is just what it sounds like, a…

Chime

Chime is an interactive public art installation that uses music and movement to engender a sense of community and wellbeing. Chime is…

City Fit Path

City Fit Path is a free urban exercise trail featuring simple, equipment-free activity stations for people of all ages and abilities. City…

Common Ground

Common Ground is a sidewalk feature powered by curiosity and empathy between strangers. Common Ground is a sidewalk installation consisting of pairs…

Create-with-Nature Cart

The Create-With-Nature Cart will serve as a portable oasis for the public of all ages to collaboratively create ephemeral sculptures using enticing…

EAVESDROP

Market Street is bugged! And you are invited to listen in. EAVESDROP connects visitors to Market Street Prototyping Festival through the act…

Ember

Ember is a monument to yesterday, playing back the presence of previous visitors in the form of notes. Ember is an installation…

Excalibur

Our prototype name is Excalibur. We want this prototype to make Market Street people feel like they are closer to nature and,…

Follow

A column of LEDs that projects avatars for everyone who comes around one of Market Street’s uniquely-angled corners. The diagonal nature of…

Gamepost

Gamepost is a system of signs that present simple, fun games that anyone can play, turning city streets into spaces for exploration…

Glimmer

Glimmer is a dynamic installation that invites passersby to enter, touch, and interact with a plush thicket of colorful suspended filaments. Glimmer…

Inside Out Dance Studio

The mission of Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s “Inside Out Dance Studio” prototype is to raise awareness for the arts in Mid-Market, encourage…

Knotty Sidewalk!

This is knot your average street furniture! Wrapping around existing sidewalk elements Knotty Sidewalk really ties Market Street together! Celebrate the sidewalk!…

Livable Body Livable City

An interactive way for the public to experience their body, mind & senses—in relationship to public space—in a totally new way. Livable…

Maps of San Francisco

A playful and interactive sculpture that enables people to connect with our city and each other through a moving mosaic of historic,…

Market Street PREPHub

The Market Street PREPHub is a prototype for a new kind of infrastructure designed to increase disaster resilience. By activating neighborhood spaces…

Metro Moods on Market

Like an Urban Mood Ring, the MMM PROJECT creates an artwork comprised of the collective, changing moods of people moving along Market…

peepSHOW

peepSHOW is an urban viewing station that focuses the gaze and thoughts of a passersby onto obscure or concealed street scenes. peepSHOW…

Pillars of Reflection

Pillars of Reflection: a mirror installation that gives pedestrians a moment to look more closely at themselves and the many moving parts…

Play Hear

Play Hear is a space for spontaneous musical collaborations with friends and strangers of all ages and abilities. By exhibiting homemade instruments…

Pop-Up Forest

The Pop-up Forest will create a uniquely immersive “forest” experience on Market Street that engages passersby in a dialogue about trees along…

Prism Portal

Prism Portal is a rainbow portal composed of interlocking grids that use light and color to attract passersby; it is a tribute…

Pulse

Informed by the curves of the human body and aligned like the heartbeat of the city, Pulse hopes to bring about new…

Reclaim The Water

Reclaim The Water is an informational, participatory and sensorial installation on San Francisco’s unused watersheds, engaging people with the ecological and social…

Rock Rock Around the Block

Rock Rock Around the Block is an inclusive, interactive project that is part merry-go-around, part rocking chair, part railroad handcar, and a…

Sea Level Stories

A combination of data visualization and narrative collection, Sea Level Stories invites you to explore how sea level rise changes the San…

SonoGROTTO

SonoGROTTO, creates a space of respite and repose on the busy sidewalk, porous enough to retain a strong connection with surrounding flows,…

Strange Lenses

Strange Lenses is a set of lenses that distort the faces of pedestrians. Strange Lenses is a set of lenses that distort…

Street Sketch

Street Sketch is a structure where people can draw together during the day, and that becomes an illuminated sculpture at night. The…

StreetSpeak.SF

StreetSpeak.SF is a collaborative platform that engages strangers through storytelling in an effort to build a broad and unique community within the…

Swallowtail

Over the course of four sessions held this spring, including discussions and a walking tour, the Think Tank set out to create…

The People’s Table

Creating artistic ping pong tables to promote play and community. The People’s Table is a free, outdoor, and artistically designed ping pong…

The Play Station

Step into The Play Station SF and have more fun on Market Street. Play is for everyone. But there’s really nowhere to…

The Sidewalk Library

To create a Sidewalk Library which takes the idea of the Public Library as community center and event space to Market Street….

The Zero Waste Trading and Mending Cart

The Zero Waste Cart is a mobile pop-up that functions as a free community clothing circulation and sewing station. Give. Take. Repair….

Urban Thump

Collaborative Music Creation, Driven by Gestures and Physical Interaction The Urban Thump project is a unique interactive installation that will attract people…

Vote With Your Feet

Participants answer crowdsourced questions by walking through one of two doors. Two doorways stand in the middle of the street, with a…

wav.field

The wav.field installation is a way to punctuate the busy flow of Market street with a moment of repose and reflection, through…