Program

Public Programs: Digital Projects for the Public: Prototyping Grants

Period of Performance

1/1/2017 - 12/31/2019

Funding Totals

$100,000.00 (approved)
$100,000.00 (awarded)


Walking Cinema: Museum of the Hidden City

FAIN: MT-253343-17

Center for Independent Documentary, Inc. (Newton, MA 02458-1341)
Michael Abraham Epstein (Project Director: June 2016 to March 2021)

Prototyping of a mobile application and website exploring the history of housing and urban design in San Francisco.

Walking Cinema: Museum of the Hidden City (MoHC) is a mobile application and walking tour exploring San Francisco’s history of affordable housing. Due to its unique mix of preservationist and progressive policies, San Francisco’s affordable housing stock spans a range of eras: from Depression Era minimalist housing blocks, to inclusionary housing in expensive new glass towers, to the largest concentration of Single Room Occupancy hotels left in the United States. The project will use this architecture and its surrounding neighborhoods as stages to show how the history of affordable housing informs present and future efforts to create shelter for all the city’s residents. Amidst numerous cranes, ubiquitous upscaling, and notorious evictions, MoHC will reveal a saga of unintended consequences for a project that may just be getting its footing in one of the most expensive cities in the country





Associated Products

MIT Media in Transition Conference Session (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: MIT Media in Transition Conference Session
Abstract: Summarized the creation process and user studies.
Author: Michael Epstein
Date: 6/1/19
Location: Cambridge, MA
Primary URL: http://media-in-transition-10.mit.edu/
Primary URL Description: Conference web page

Museum of the Hidden City Website and Apps (Computer Program)
Title: Museum of the Hidden City Website and Apps
Author: Michael epstein
Abstract: Website where apps can be downloaded, trailer for project, press, more information, and primary sources.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://www.seehidden.city
Primary URL Description: Project website.
Access Model: Open
Programming Language/Platform: Apps were built in Unity with MapKit. In Apple store and Google Play.
Source Available?: Yes

Prizes

Mobile App Gold
Date: 1/1/2020
Organization: MUSE