Paraformance Videos:
Paraformance 1: The Tour
Paraformance 4: The Game
Paraformance 6: The Nappening
Jan. 2009 update:
In Collaboration with Rebar, the SF Urban Planning & Research Association (SPUR) has released a report on San Francisco's "POPOS."
Download SPUR's handy visitor's guide (pdf) to the spaces!
Spring 2006 - Spring 2007
COMMONspace is an experimental project to map, explore and evaluate San Francisco's privately-owned public open spaces.
In an effort to provide more public space downtown, the City of San Francisco has partnered with private developers to create a number of privately-owned public spaces. Some of these spaces are open and inviting - activated by public use. Others are under heavy surveillance, difficult to find, appear private, or are fundamentally inaccessible. To date, these spaces have not been systematically evaluated.
The goal of COMMONspace is to evaluate, activate and reclaim these spaces as a critical part of the public realm and as a valuable component of San Francisco's intellectual and artistic commons. We aim to determine just how public are these privately-owned public spaces?
Rebar has partnered with Snap Out Of It to conduct a series of events and paraformances in these spaces. To learn more about the paraformances, watch the videos!
To see a catalog of the spaces,
see our Interactive Map
Visiting the spaces? Take the Video Podcast Tour!