Larkin Street Youth Services provides a range of services to homeless and at-risk youth in San Francisco. They are also a critical support resource for the local LGBTQ community. Our team of architecture students at California College of the Arts worked directly with the youth services' advisory board and their arts programs to display creative expressions of homeless and at-risk youth. Our goal is to serve as an outreach initiative, communicating their mission to the local community.
Urban Street beautification projects such as the Market Street Prototype Festival, often confuse "beauty" with cleanliness, completely disregarding the beauty hidden in the unsavory realities of the street. Our Guerrilla Street Museum hopes to serve not only as a model for engaging multiple dimensions of the street, revealing beauty in a nontraditional sense, but also serves as a critique for most one dimensional beautification projects.
