Hacking the Streets of San Francisco at the Market Street Prototyping Festival

Way to go, San Francisco, one of my favorite cities in the States.

From Makezine:

Hackers took over Market Street in downtown San Francisco this weekend. Not Anonymous-style protesters, but urban makers, who brought 50 prototypes, custom built to modify the urban environment and make it more interactive.

The variable, manic identity of the street, which cuts a diagonal swathe across the city, is a frequent topic of discussion among San Franciscans and urban planning thinkers. It’s one of the most traveled streets in the city, filled with pedestrians, public transit, and tourists, so it’s ripe for experimentation. That was one purpose of the Market Street Prototyping Festival, held April 9-11, in five different blocks of the street.

It was difficult to tell who was on Market Street for the festival, and who happened upon it by chance, but that’s kind of the point — the artists and makers who were there with their creations talked about how people would come together to interact with them, as well as how the makers would adapt their prototypes to be more easily used.


http://makezine.com/2015/04/14/hacking-streets-san-francisco-market-street-prototyping-festival/