Delivered at the 15th Biennial Community Built Association Conference (in Davis, CA) with artist Aileen Barr, this presentation reviews how the two ceramic-tiled staircases and adjacent gardens in San Francisco's Inner Sunset District were created through extensive community collaborations that drew donations from across the United States and a few other countries--and may be inspiring a third set of ceramic-tiled steps in the same neighborhood.

1. Aileen Barr
Paul Signorelli
barraileen@cs.com
paul@paulsignorelli.com
The Art of Community Building 2014
15th Biennial Community Built Association Conference
April 4, 2014
Davis, CA
Flights of Fancy:
Taking Mosaic Design &
Grassroots Fundraising
To New Heights

2. First
Steps

3. Collaboration

35. Second Steps:
A Virtual Tour
Flight by Flight Photos by
Gilbert Johnson

53. Hidden Garden Steps: Solving a Problem

54. Hidden Garden Steps: Solving a Problem

55. Hidden Garden Steps: Solving a Problem

56. Listening to the Community

57. Listening to the Community

58. Building Community: Peer to Peer

59. Going Where Our Community Is

60. Going Where Our Community Is

61. Going Where Our Community Is

62. Creating Community Hands On

63. Telling More than 600 Stories

64. The Landscape as Some See It

65. The Landscape as Some See It

66. The Landscape as Some See It

67. The Landscape as It Was for Us

68. The Landscape as It Was for Us
“The project is poignant in its sweetness.”
--Joe Eskanazi, SF Weekly

69. Our Website

70. Combining Tradition and Innovation

71. Combining Onsite & Online Communities

72. Combining Onsite & Online Communities

73. Personalizing Our Online Presence

74. Personalizing Our Online Presence

75. Others Extending Our Online Presence

76. Others Extending Our Online Presence

77. Indiegogo , Kickstarter, and YouTube

78. Indiegogo , Kickstarter, and YouTube

79. Thanks, Thanks, and More Thanks

80. A Postscript
15thavestepspark@gmail.com

81. Resources

82. Questions, Comments, and
Next Steps

83. For More Information
Aileen Barr
San Francisco, CA
415.407.4496
barraileen@cs.com
http://www.aileenbarrtile.com
Paul Signorelli & Associates
1032 Irving St., #514
San Francisco, CA 94122
415.681.5224
paul@paulsignorelli.com
http://paulsignorelli.com
Twitter: @paulsignorelli
http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com

84. Credits & Acknowledgments
Slide Deck Designed by Paul Signorelli
16th Avenue Tiled Steps (Moraga Steps) photographs were provided by Aileen Barr
Flight-by-flight Hidden Garden Steps photographs were taken by Gilbert Johnson
Other onsite Hidden Garden Steps photographs were taken by Paul Signorelli and Liz McLoughlin
The Hidden Garden Steps project was completed through the support of numerous volunteers, government and nonprofit organizations,
local business owners, existing neighborhood groups, and more than 600 donors.
More information is available at http://hiddengardensteps.org
More photographs are available on the website, as well as on Google+ at the following sites:
Creating the Mosaic:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104017204598614298654/albums/5874010570789214705
Preparing the Site:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104017204598614298654/albums/5821542691776998769
Installing the Mosaic:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104017204598614298654/albums/5938536121031791729
Sustaining the Steps Community:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/104017204598614298654/albums/5968581623346005153