Autodesk Keystone Project for Market Street Prototyping Festival
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Oct 10, 201411:59 PMEDT
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AUTODESK KEYSTONE PROJECT: MARKET STREET PROTOTYPING FESTIVAL
PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED
Updated Submission Deadline: October 10, 2014
Semifinalist Interviews: October 27-31, 2014
Updated Proposal Selection Date: November 3, 2014
Festival Dates: April 9-11, 2015
(Note: complete and fully linked RFP available here: http://inthefold.autodesk.com/files/rfp-1.pdf)
CALL SUMMARY:
The San Francisco Planning Department has partnered with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) to produce the Market Street Prototyping Festival: an innovative, hands- on, publicly sourced approach to creating the next chapter of San Francisco’s public life. The Market Street Prototyping Festival builds upon a five-year, multi-agency effort for a Better Market Street to re-establish San Francisco’s civic spine as a place to stop and spend time, meet friends, people watch, or just stroll and experience the scenery.
Market Street will be broken out into 5 districts along the corridor: Civic Center, Central Market, Retail, Financial, Embarcadero. Each district, or "Block," will be represented by a Block Captain. Each Captain will mentor 10 selected prototyping teams and will be responsible for developing their own Keystone Project that will serve as the primary focal point for each district. As the Block Captain for the Embarcadero district, Autodesk is seeking proposals from engineers, industrial designers, architects, artists, and interactive designers for a large-scale Keystone Project to serve as a physical, visual and social anchor for the Embarcadero section of the festival.
In addition to the Autodesk Keystone Project, the Prototyping Festival itself will commission and exhibit up to 50 design projects that aim to improve lives by improving public spaces. These 50 projects are not to be confused with the Keystone project, as the 50 festival grants are part of a separate application process facilitated by the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Each of these selected prototype projects will be installed on Market Street for the full duration of the three-day festival, April 9-11, 2015. The 50 selected teams will work directly with community members to shape the direction of their designs and will be matched with one of five Festival Districts on Market. The call for applications for those 50 projects is currently open and will close on October 10, 2014. More information on that separate process can be found on the Market Street Prototyping Festival website.
The Autodesk Keystone Project should relate to the ethos “Inspire, Design, Create.” Additionally, it should connect to the character of the Pier 9 Workshop where artists, designers and fabricators are empowered to test the limits of existing technology, both digital and mechanical. The Pier 9 review committee encourages projects that incorporate the following themes related to place-making and the unique social and spatial conditions of the Embarcadero district:
- site specificity: social, cultural, geographic, and civic histories
- connecting digital and physical realms
- daring experimentation/playful prototyping
- edge condition: city + waterfront
- wayfinding and transportation networks
LOCATION:
Over the course of the festival, the city anticipates foot traffic of over 300,000 visitors. The Keystone Project may be installed anywhere within the festival’s Embarcadero district, which starts at the intersection of Market and Steuart Streets, extending to Market and Main Street. See the map on the Market Street Prototyping Festival website for more details and note that Autodesk’s main San Francisco office is located at 1 Market.
PRECEDENTS:
The following projects are examples of what the Pier 9 review committee is looking for in terms of scale, tone and available resources. These samples are meant to serve purely as a reference and are not works that will be featured at the festival.
- Sukkah City, Various, New York
- 21 Balançoires (21 Swings), Daily tous les jours, Montreal
- Light Drift, J. Meejin Yoon, Philadelphia (Note: Projects for the 2014 Urban Prototyping festival cannot be installed in the bay.)
- Digital Empathy, Julianne Swartz, New York
LOGISTICS, EXPECTATIONS, AND SUPPORT:
The selected project and team will be fully supported by the Pier 9 Workshop! We look forward to having you join our creative community of Artists in Residence, other Creative Projects Teams, and the folks who make Instructables.com go. We provide ample opportunities to collaborate with other designers and makers, to receive training on any of the machines in our workshop, gain software support for all Autodesk products (including free software licenses), and call upon the expertise of our fantastic Shop Staff.
We can supply a modest office workspace and 24-hour access to the workshop. All basic prototyping supplies will be covered, including hardware, sheet goods, and finishes. Projects may be budgeted at up to $80,000. Additional funding, and a longer-term installation at a major high-traffic zone on the Embracadero, may be possible. We expect to support an innovative and inspiring project that reflects the use of our world-class facilities, at a scale similar to the precedents listed. For more information on the amenities available at Pier 9, see the Pier 9 Overview and Machine Catalog Instructables.
Your project will also receive support from Autodesk’s public relations team, marketing team, video and photo documentation team, software specialists, and workshop fabrication specialists. There will be an expectation that you will work collaboratively with all of these groups to share the progress and product of your work.
Finally, we have an Advisory Committee representing expertise in areas of landscape architecture, sustainability, and digital fabrication that can be called upon for consultation and critical feedback at particular points in the project timeline. The selected artist or team will be expected to formally share their progress throughout the development and fabrication process with the creative community at Pier 9 and beyond. This includes:
- posting Instructables related to the making of the project
- 2 presentations to the Advisory Committee for feedback
- 1 lunchtime presentation to the full Pier 9 community, near project completion
TIMELINE:
October 10, 2014 — Proposals Due
October 27-31, 2014 — Semifinalist interviews November 3, 2014 — Keystone Project announced
October - December, 2014 — periodic consultations with members of Advisory Board Early December, 2014 — Presentation and critique with the Advisory Board
Early February, 2015 — Follow-up presentation and critique with the Advisory Board
2 weeks before festival — Dress rehearsal (deadline for full assembly and functionality) April 9-11, 2015 — Installation and three-day festival
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- 1 page statement regarding the concept, siting, and fabrication strategy for your proposal
- Up to 5 photos/videos of mock-ups or prior work
- CV including exhibition history (if applicable)
- Proposed budget outline (Please include direct costs, materials, artist fees, contractors, and any additional project contributors or contractors)
- Draft project calendar including proposed dates for prototyping workflow, workshop production time, completion time(s), and out-of-town dates (if applicable)
- List of anticipated machines and materials needed
ABOUT PIER 9:
Autodesk’s Pier 9 workshop is a world-class fabrication facility on the San Francisco Bay. The Artist in Residence (AiR) program gives artists, designers and Instructables authors a chance to work with us in our lab and workshops to explore, create, and document innovative projects with our tools and resources and share them with the DIY community. AiRs are invited to come for a period of several weeks to several months, during which they will work on projects that are shared across the Autodesk Studio Communities. The primary goals of the residency program are to produce top-level inspirational content and to connect innovative and creative individuals with our unique set of tools and resources.
Questions and inquiries are encouraged. We look forward to learning more about your work. Please submit applications with all materials compiled in a .zip file titled with your project name to: [email protected].
FAQ:
Where can I propose to install my project? Where can’t I install?
Please plan to site your work along Market Street between Main Street and Steuart Street. Unfortunately, the traffic island in front of the Ferry building and Jimmy Herman plaza are unable to accommodate installations. It is not essential for you to propose an exact location for your project, although the review committee welcomes and encourages projects that respond to the social, geographical, historical and commercial conditions shaping the Embarcadero festival district.
Will the Farmer’s market be there? What about the vendors?
The Farmer’s market in front of the Ferry Building and the vendors on the adjacent traffic island will continue with their normal vending schedule.
What’s the budget?
The Keystone Project will be supported at up to $80,000, with opportunities for additional funding. If you have a project with a budget scope that exceeds this, please submit your project anyway.
Three days seems pretty short. What if I want my installation to be up for a longer period of time?
There are opportunities for the right installation to receive further budgeting support, and a longer installation period at a high traffic zone along the Embarcadero.
What’s the difference between the Embarcadero Keystone Project and the 50 festival grants for $2,000?
Autodesk is selecting and directly funding the Keystone Project for the Embarcadero district. The 50 festival grants are distributed through the Market Street Prototyping Festival itself, and can be installed in any of the 5 festival districts.
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