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CounterPULSE Projects: Shaping San Francisco
In addition to the many events and programs at our
facility at 1310 Mission, CounterPULSE is the home of a variety of arts
and media projects.
Shaping San Francisco,
founded in 1994, is one of CounterPULSE's most publicly known projects,
and was converted to the web in 2005 using a platform called "Greenstone Digital Library." It was great to get on-line with Shaping SF but frustrating that it was so hard to edit and live up to our original goal of becoming a Living Archive of the City.
Thus, we finally moved the whole project to a media-wiki format and
it's open at FoundSF.org!
We have our ongoing series
of Talks at CounterPULSE three Wednesdays every month, recorded
and uploaded as podcsts. And
we also take history to the public regularly by way of our ongoing
bicycle history tours that are offered 8-10 times a year.
The first 24 half hour radio shows derived from our ongoing Public Talks series are now archived permanently online, thanks to the Internet Archive. And at the San Francisco State University DIVA system we have been archiving as podcasts all our Talks since early 2007. You can find specific podcast links on the Talks calendar or here.
Shaping San Francisco is a digital archive of San Francisco's lost
history, ranging across the often overlooked chapters of ecological
history, labor history, underground music, public art, immigrant groups,
transportation, housing and much more.
This image is of the corner of 9th and Mission
where CounterPULSE sits today (CounterPULSE would be on the sanddune
that rises at the right side of the picture).
Mission Street southwest at 9th, 2007
Shaping San Francisco has been going for almost
a decade on a shoestring.
Donations to Shaping San Francisco can be made by sending a check made
out to "CounterPULSE" and earmarked for Shaping San Francisco
to 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Or you can visit the
Shaping San Francisco website and donate via our paypal donation button
right on the home page.
CounterPULSE and Shaping San Francisco director Chris
Carlsson conducts 4-hour historical tours of San Francisco by bicycle.
Bring a snack and water, and reserve your
spot now! Meet at CounterPULSE, at noon on the dates below.
Spring 2009
Sat., March 14, noon: Ecological History (south)
This trip through San Francisco's lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city south of downtown and SOMA, traversing the Mission, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, Bayview, and the southeast coastline, including several new public parks. It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's ecological past and present.
Sat., March 28, noon: Dissent
Covering everything from literary dissenters to urban riots and protests, this tour examines sites of conflict and unrest, the social movements and upheavals, that have shaped San Francisco since its origins. It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's contrarian past and present.
Sun., April 26, noon: Transit
Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands. It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's transportation past and present.
Sat., May 16, noon: Ecological History (north)
This trip through San Francisco's lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city from downtown north, covering the heart of the city, the waterfront and Yerba Buena cove, Telegraph Hill, Black Point, and Crissy Field in the Presidio... It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's ecological past and present.
Sun., July 5, noon: Labor history
From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF's radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look, during a four hour bike tour, at San Franciscolabor history.
Reservations helpful: 415.608.9035
sliding scale $15-50
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