
Projects

Alvord Lake
Golden Gate Park's natural and social landscapes invite visitors to connect and explore.

Sound Commons
At SF’s UN Plaza, people come together to explore sound, changing the tenor of this public space.

Ciencia Pública: Agua
This parklet exploring the science of water lives outside a school in SF’s Mission neighborhood.

National Aquarium, Baltimore
SPS worked with the aquarium in Baltimore to plan exhibits along their waterfront site.

Pause
The city of San Francisco chose the Exploratorium to develop this site as a model for how to revitalize an urban space.

Ciencia Pública: Skateboarding

Piers 15/17
Visitors to the Exploratorium's new home on the piers enjoy exhibits that illuminate and capture outdoor phenomena: light, wind, tides, and more.

Jewel Changi Airport's Canopy Park
The Studio for Public Spaces partnered with PWP Landscape Architecture to support the design of attractions at Jewel Changi Airport’s Canopy Park.

People-watching / Pier 9
For this experiment in social space-making, we paired playful, moveable seating with hints on people-watching and how to observe the interesting human interactions that occur.

Fort Mason
At this site, our first major outdoors installation, the exhibits encourage visitors to become expert noticers of the natural and built world.
(Exhibits deinstalled July 2015)

Wave Wall
Fronting the LIGO Science Center, this wall of magnetically-coupled rods is driven by the wind. It self-organizes into large, rippling wave forms.

Emeryville Public Market
Exhibits on wind, sand, history, and sustainability turn a trip to a local shopping center into a rich exploration of place.

Presidio Gateway
Working with CMG Architecture, SPS helped develop conceptual designs and programming for 10 acres of new parkland in San Francisco's Presidio.

Golden Gate Bridge
At the Golden Gate Bridge, interactive exhibits let visitors explore its dynamic nature.