Publications

The Studio for Public Spaces utilizes our in-house visitor and research evaluation department whenever possible for site evaluation as well as front-end, formative, and summative evaluation. We also chronicle our ongoing works through in-house publications, blogs, and public presentations in the hope that we might inform cross-disciplinary fields working together to create more vibrant, participatory public spaces.

Project Publications

• Outdoor Exploratorium, experiments in noticing and understanding (pdf)
  2010
• SCIENCE SHE LOVES ME: Chapter The Anti-Aesthetic
  Susan Schwartzenberg and Shawn Lani, 2009

Research and Evaluation

Site Studies

• Characterizing Audience and Traffic Flow at Pier 39 and the Ferry Building (pdf)
  Lisa Sindorf, Toni Dancu, 2011.
• Characterizing Audience and Traffic Flow at Rincon Park and Brannan Street (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Evaluation at Rincon Park – Lessons Learned about Audience and the Evaluation Process (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.

Summative Evaluation

• Outdoor Exploratorium Summative Evaluation (pdf)
  Wendy Meluch, 2009.

Formative Evaluation

• Walk-along: What visitors notice on their way to the Exploratorium (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2004.
• Experiments in Noticing Exhibit Prototypes (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, Annie Lien, 2004.
• Visitors’ Outdoor Plans, Preconceptions, and Interests (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, Jackie Wong, Emily Hatch, 2004.
• Noticing Tour: Kite Cam PDF (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, Jackie Wong, Jessica Ruskin, Veronica Garcia-Luis, 2005.
• Experiments in Noticing the Noticing Tours (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2004.
• Sky Mosaic – Building a Shared Mosaic (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2004.
• Sky Mosaic – Matching Task (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2004.
• Noticing Tour: Then and Now at the Palace of Fine Arts (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, Veronica Garcia-Luis, Jackie Wong, 2004.
• Open-Ended Exploration with a Noticing Toolkit at the Palace of Fine Arts (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2002.
• Lift II (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Viewports (Cargo Ships, Cargo Cranes, and Mt. Diablo) (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Currents (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Urban Sound Garden at Rincon Park (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Lift (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Listening Tube (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.
• Raindrop Plotter (pdf)
  Joyce Ma, 2005.

Press

• New York Times
• Architect: The Architect’s Magazine
• The Architect’s Newspaper
• San Francisco Magazine
• Via Magazine
• Exploratorium/BGC Project
• Exploratorium/Jamestown Project
• Channel 7 coverage of Jamestown Project