“The Skywatchers Ensemble is an enduring dialogic, performance-based, and cross-disciplinary community arts program in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighbor-hood."

— Jesse Johnson, Skywatchers Ensemble member

Reimagining the City as Our Own

Film by Irene Gustafson in partnership with Skywatchers (2022)

Reimagining the City as Our Own: Towards an Architecture of Inclusion is a film that considers the ubiquity of unpleasant design or, hostile architecture, in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

"Unpleasant design aims to discourage people from using public space in what some might describe in 'undesirable ways'... but actually, these design elements target unhoused and poor people by discouraging resting and sleeping"

— Excerpt from Reimagining the City as Our Own

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