This short volume includes two separate but related projects completed in my first year of my Industrial Design MFA at California College of the Arts. The first is the final paper I wrote for Randy Nakamura in Design In Context: Contemporary Practice, entitled The Sidewalk Manifesto. In this paper I propose that the sidewalk is an interface and analyse it based on my understanding of The Unworkable Interface by Alexander R. Galloway and The Architecture of the Mouse by Mark Wigley. I conclude that the problem of the sidewalk stems from its success, and therefore demise, as an interface. I very intentionally call this a manifesto and do not offer any answers in the paper. This is due to my belief that most manifestos do a very good of identifying the problem but a very poor job of providing solutions. In this paper I am interested only in the problem. However, I used the final project for Drawing and Building with Monica Martinez, a public art proposal, to respond to the problem I identify in the paper and, in so doing, complete the manifesto. Civil Center is a public art intervention that disrupts the standard interaction we expect from the sidewalk using Ionic columns to direct pedestrian traffic and create enough friction to force an acknowledgement of the space we share. In San Francisco the sidewalk has become a major point of contention and I hope that this exploration helps nudge towards a more civil approach to the sidewalk.