SocialSculpture, Social Art Tactics

Cohen Alley Urban Greenlab

 

Links, Readings and Upcoming Events

 

 

INTRODUCTION TO THE TENDERLOIN

READINGS FOR FEB 10

Handout: "Flood"

From: Shaping San Francisco  

read the following short online articles:

The Tenderloin

Affordable Housing in the Tenderloin

The Tenderloin in the 20th Century

Making the Tenderloin Livable

Rezoning the Tenderloin Derails Grassroots Activism

From Southeast Asia to the Tenderloin

 

Additional/Optional Readings:

Another picture of the 'Loin:  (optional)

SF Neighborhood Guide The Tenderloin by Beth Lisick

 

Scan for projects currently in the works in the Tenderloin:

         The City and County of San Francisco's Program Year 2000 

Consolidated Annual Performance & Evaluation Report (CAPER) 9/01

 

 

Calendar Event Please go if you have the time!

Feb 15. Michael Swaine: sewing at 509 Cultural Center

 

 

THE EVERYDAY (Why engage with the world?)

READINGS FOR FEB. 17

(comingŠ..; food, water, resources, biological realities and social equity)

 

 

Calendar Event

February 22 What Is Nature? Shaping San Francisco's SPRING Events

Nature in the City's Peter Brastow and Ruth Gravanis will present a comprehensive overview of San Francisco's natural environment, discussing the less-than-obvious meanings of the concept of "nature." http://www.counterpulse.org/springtalks.shtml

 

 

 

 

SITE SPECIFICITY AND RESEARCH

READINGS FOR FEB. 24

Artists Statements and Proposal for Groundworks

This is from an art show in Pittsburgh last year. Please investigate the site as much as you can and take notes of what kind of research the artists did for a couple of projects.

 

 

A BACKGROUND TO SOCIALSCULPTURE

READINGS FOR MARCH 3

            Joseph Beuys (to be Added soon)

 

 

 

 

EVENTS

You need to attend at least one this semester and be prepared to report on it in writing. These will include lectures, meetings, rallies, workshops; something where people are involved in educating themselves, or organizing themselves about or around an issue outside of a school context.

 

Shaping San Francisco's SPRING Events

http://www.counterpulse.org/springtalks.shtml

 

DOWNLOAD PDF of calendar     

All events are at 8 p.m. at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at 9th) in San Francisco

 

 

March 29   What's Natural about 
Natural Disasters?

Featuring Tom Athanasiou of Eco-Equity (author, Divided Planet), Sherlina Nager (Literacy for Environmental Justice), and Peter Davidson, UCSF director of the Tenderloin's UFO project. We'll be looking at earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, epidemic flu, chronic disease, etc. and framing the elements of a community response based on mutual aid, cooperation, and a renewed commitment to a public health infrastructure.