Appropriating to share better

Appropriating to share better: This seemingly paradoxical dual movement lies at the heart of tool production practices in contemporary design and opens up a redefinition of design: farewell to the creation of unique, controlled, and definitive forms and welcome to the fabrication of infinite potentialities to be explored in collaboration. And if these collaborative tools proudly brandish their openness as a standard, it's often rather from their functional closure that the creation of singular and original forms is born. By offering a narrow infinity of possibilities to be explored in collaboration.

Traces

What emerges from this brief comparison of analog and digital traces are first and foremost the profound changes in nature and status: we have moved from the realm of the given to that of the constructed, from scarcity to abundance, from the index to the symbol, from singularity to calculability, from localization to delocalization, from fixity to volatility, from the imprint of the past to the recording of the present, from conservation to the dynamism of traces… But it is, of course, in the societal issues related to digital traces, mutations are the most spectacular and crucial ones: whether it concerns the control of these digital traces, the protection of personal data, the widespread traceability on the internet, or the question of the future memory of our current times… all these socio-political issues had no equivalents in the analog world, at least not on this scale. (Serres, 2012)

Anaïs Berck

Anaïs Berck is a tree greffier. Anais Berck is a pseudonym and stands for a collaboration between people, algorithms and trees. As a collective, they open a space in which human intelligence is explored in company of plant intelligence and artificial intelligence.

Pouvoir de détruire pouvoir de créer : vers une écologie sociale et libertaire.