Interview with Ralph Scott : Artists’ Live-Work Housing in San Francisco Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Ralph Scott is the founder of Project One, a 200-person community that occupied a former San Francisco candy factory starting in the early 1970s. He spoke about his architectural training with Buckminster Fuller and moving to San Francisco in 1965. Inspired by a collective studio space that he’d seen and by his desire to start a democratic high school focused on science and technology, Project One sprang from a series of meetings in Scott’s North Beach apartment. The interest meetings, and eventually the community itself, brought in anchor organizations as varied as Vietnam Veterans for Peace and a group of early computer programmers. Scott described trying to remodel the building while still satisfying San Francisco building code. Due to financial stress and cultural change, Scott explained his decision to leave the consensus-based community. Still, he remarked on being struck by the influential group of women residents who fought for fairer gender dynamics in Project One, and by the lasting relationships that the residents formed with one another.
Description
| Type of resource | moving image |
|---|---|
| Extent | 1 video file |
| Place | Baltimore (Md.)Maryland |
| Date created | December 7, 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Sound content | Sound |
| Color content | Color |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Scott, Ralph | |
|---|---|---|
| Interviewer | Meurice, Nova | |
| Interviewer | Kahan, Michael B. |
Subjects
| Subject | Project One |
|---|---|
| Subject | Loft living > California > San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Subject | Intentional Communities > California > San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Subject | Artists > Housing > California > San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Recording |
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| Source ID | sul:sc1590_2022-011_i10 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tn665bt0926 |
| Location | SC1590 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Artists’ Live-Work Housing in San Francisco Oral History Project recordings, 2020
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