ARTIST / CURATOR TEAM
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Sara Dean is an architect and designer in the Bay Area. She is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts, and co-founder of IF/THEN Studio, a community design space in Berkeley California. Her work investigates opportunities of digital technologies to engage cities towards greater equity and adaptability, under the dual threat of the Anthropocene and capitalism. This includes works on climate disaster, the share economy, digital activism, mapping, and the future of our cities. Sara’s work has been exhibited globally, including at Shenzhen Biennale, Venice Biennale, Art Toronto, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Detroit Design Festival. Her work and collaborations have been featured in media sources including BBC News, Wired Italy, Devex, National Geographic, National Public Radio, Artsy, dezeen, Places Journal, and The Guardian. She was the 2017 Exploratoium Urban Fellow for her research on climate adaptive design and a former ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Fellow.
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Beth Ferguson is assistant professor in the University of California, Davis Department of Design. She is an artist and ecological designer whose practice blends industrial design with sustainable transportation, solar engineering, climate resiliency, and public engagement. Ferguson is the director of Sol Design Lab and the founding director of the Adapting City Lab. Her interdisciplinary work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium Museum, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, TEDx Presidio, Bay Area Maker Faire, and the Otago Museum in New Zealand. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, BBC and Texas Architect Magazine. She was awarded the Austin Green Award in 2017, and with Public Sediment won Honor Award for Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Best Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association in 2019. She is a San Francisco Autodesk Technology Center Fellow, a Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellow and a former ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Fellow.
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bferguson@ucdavis.edu
marisonis@gmail.com
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Marina Monsonís is a visual artist and the facilitator of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art Kitchen Lab from Barcelona, Spain. She works with social movements and international public art projects rooted in history, culture, food, ecology, and place, including Geographies Borrada (Erased Geographies). Her documentary L’Últim Carrer (The Last Street), co-directed with Rasmus Sievers, was selected by BAFICI festival in Buenos Aires, and a winner of the Astra Documentary Film Festival Romania. She has worked with The National Museum of Art of Caracas, the Baltimore Contemporary Museum, the Department of Culture of Emeralds Ecuador, the Rómer Museum, Flóris Györ Hungary, the Kleiner Salon in Berlin, Escola Massana, BAU, the Tàpies Foundation, and The MACBA. She has worked on a variety of community art and education projects related to marine sciences, collective mapping, street art, food experimentation, oral history, and biohacking.
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Project History
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Climate Kit, Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2016
The project builds on the success of a previous work, Climate Kit, that was commissioned by the 2016 ZERO1 American Arts Incubator in New Zealand. The international new media and digital arts exchange program was developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Climate Kit collection was exhibited at the Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand, The California College of the Arts, Oliver Art Center Gallery in Oakland, CA, and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, California. The Climate Kit archive was built from over fifty international scientists, artists, designers, and citizens who submitted tools and stories related to climate fieldwork to the collection.
Collaborators
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Eldy Lazaro is a Peruvian designer and researcher with an M.F.A. in Design from the University of California Davis. She is a PhD student at the ATLAS Institute in CU Boulder, USA and a member of the Unstable Design Lab and Living Matter Lab. Her research areas include wearable technology, biodesign, and sustainability. She is currently researching and developing conductive biofibers for applications in electronic textiles. Previously, she was a resident at the Autodesk Technology Center in San Francisco where she researched the use of mycelium biocomposites for applications in product design and wearable technology using digital fabrication techniques. Eldy is a Fabricademy alumni and member of the Fab Lab Global Network.
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Ofelia Viloche Pulido is an M.F.A. in Design student at the University of California, Davis. Her background includes architecture, landscaping, furniture, and digital fabrication. Her area of interest is focused on sustainable and interactive design, at the intersection between nature and technology. She has a B.S. in Architecture and Urbanism from Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru.
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Climate Kit, Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2016
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