Upcoming Events:
Coming in 2023!
Celebrating 25 Years of Shaping San Francisco!
From its initial rollout at the Main Library in January 1998 on CD-ROMs and public kiosks, to our current incarnation on Foundsf.org, we've come a long way baby! Join us in 2023 for a series of celebratory events! We will announce them in January. Meanwhile we still have a bicycle tour on December 3 and a walking tour on December 10 (see below).
Walking Tours — Fall 2022
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.
RSVP shaping@foundsf.org
Saturday, September 10—Beer, Dunes, and Trains
Saturday, October 22—Rancho San Miguel Hilltopper
Saturday, December 10—King Tide/Sea Level Rise Mission Bay
Bicycle Tours
“Cycles of History,” our social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco by bicycle.
Our fabulous bicycle tours are led by Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson, with help from LisaRuth Elliott.
Join our list or like us on Facebook to be notified about upcoming tours!
NEXT BIKE TOUR » Saturday, December 3, 2022, 12–3 pm
Ecological History South
RSVP shaping@foundsf.orgExplore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.
Shaping San Francisco is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a California non-profit corporation.