UP Festival Full Lineup Announced!

  After months of planning, we are extremely excited to announce the final lineup of performances, panels, and projects for this weekend’s Urban Prototyping Festival! For the duration of the festival, 4 blocks of downtown San Francisco will be transformed into a living laboratory of urban experiments. The one-day festival runs for ten hours, from [...]

Makeathon Wrapup and Selections

On September 28-30, we held the first-ever Urban Prototyping Makeathon in San Francisco. We challenged 50 incredible participants with an exciting and ambitious proposition: to rapidly prototype new physical and digital urban interventions, going from concept to execution in just 48 hours. After pitching over 30 ideas on the Makeathon stage, the room rallied around [...]

Open Call Selections Announced!

The Urban Prototyping: San Francisco team is excited to announce the results of our open call for project proposals, which closed last Monday, August 20. We were thrilled with the quality and variety of the proposals, with nearly 100 submissions coming in from four continents. Perhaps most exciting was the diversity of skill sets represented, [...]

Open call is closed! Apply for the Makeathon today.

The submission period for the UP open call is officially over and we’re busy reviewing almost 100 proposals. Look out for the announcement of winners coming soon! Missed the deadline, but still want to get your get your hands dirty with urban prototyping? APPLY for the makeathon today. Applications are already being accepted on a [...]