2. “What is the City doing today
to prevent
graffiti from occurring at the same spot
tomorrow?”
Concerned citizen at Mayor Sander’s
Community Dialogue, Spring 2007
3. Harmless Invasives
Is a new project of the City of San Diego
Development Services Department,
Graffiti Control Program to introduce a:
• Sustainable Graffiti Prevention
Component to the City’s Graffiti Control
efforts
4. Harmless Invasives
Sustainable Graffiti Prevention Project
– Long term graffiti deterrents
– Site specific art interventions
– Nature interpretive project about non-native
invasive species located in the Rose Creek
watershed
– Rose Creek bike path runs along the creek from
Grand Avenue to Garnet Avenue
– Test sites are City owned walls along the bike
path
5. Harmless Invasives
Coordinated by City’s Graffiti Control Program
in partnership with:
• SDPD Graffiti Strike Force
• UCSD’s Center for Computer Research and
the Arts and Universidad Iberoamericana de
Tijuana
• Need a sponsor for public information
materials (brochure, post card, web site,
signage)
6. Harmless Invasives: Creative process
• Conduct preliminary research about adverse impacts
of non-native invasive species in watersheds
• Identify invasive species at Rose Creek
• Identify problem area or project site
• Artists create a shadow study of existing invasive
species, select images and transfer them to stencils
• Graffiti vandal captured by SDPD Strike Force
installs images on City walls along the bike path as
part of his community service sentence
• Stu uses stencils and aerosol
