GSTS WORKSHOP
A collective poster and book making workshop designed by Berg. and hosted at The California Academy of Science, The Institute of advancing Uncertainty, SF Art Book Fair, and California College of the Arts. The workshop invites the public create a poster using graphite rubbings over curated images from our research. The rubbing technique pulls the underlying structures up from below. The posters are scanned and added to the Berg. archive. We then print a limited edition book that catalogs the posters. The interaction is determined by the spatial layout of the workshop and is responsive to user feedback. As we restage the workshop, we adapt to the specific architecture, time frame and constraints of each installation.
SOcial Furniture
Berg. designed and deployed a collection of public furniture in collaboration with IF/Then Studio’s San Pablo Archive Project. IF/THEN Studio is asking: What is already here? How do people use San Pablo Avenue now? And what would the community like to see in the future? IF/THEN Studio is gathering stories from San Pablo Avenue to try to better understand our neighborhood and help in any way we can, to build a more resilient and inclusive future for all of us. Berg. used our social furniture as a public intervention that reclaimed public space and provided infrastructure for the Archive Project.
FLORACURRENT SURVEY
Talking With the Future
The Floracurrent Survey taps and documents the omnipresent electric current that flows between living trees and the ground. The survey’s early trials have been conducted in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. These trials have established that a current is detectable between living trees and the ground regardless of species, size and location in the park, and it invites further investigation. The survey claims this current as a common resource and presents the current as a way to value and relate to natural systems without an impulse to exploit them. The utility in the survey comes from the ritual of approaching trees and the ground with reverence. The kit and data collected from the survey are meant to connect people to place, long term thinking and the commons of the Earth.