Design Radicals: Berkeley 1960s and Today | Mission Dist.
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Eric Quezada Center | 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
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Shaping San Francisco | City History Lectures
Shaping San Francisco is a series of free lectures, which aim to excavate the city’s lost history. It’s a place to meet and talk unmediated by corporations, official spokespeople, religion, political parties, or dogma.
Shaping San Francisco
Periodic Wednesdays | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics | 518 Valencia St, SF
FREE
As San Francisco emerged as the hub of counterculture, pilgrimage routes in the late 1960s, radical politics and social change galvanized design ideals in Berkeley. The East Bay became the site of bold experiments in graphic arts, environmental activism, handcraft pedagogy, and self-build technologies.
Fast forward to 2011, the creation of the local hub PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland, a center linking our radical past to the resilient future, fosters many of the same ideals. Greg Castillo and Sabrina Richard, the co-curators of Design Radicals: Berkeley in the ’60s – an exhibition at UC Berkeley planned for the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement in the Fall of 2014 – discuss artifacts and initiatives that document a decade of environmental design innovation. They are joined by Jonathan Youtt, catalyst for the creation of the public-serving experiential learning center, PLACE, to bring us up to the present.
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Cost: FREE
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