Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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The New Activism of Japan’s Youth
Read more: The New Activism of Japan’s YouthYoung Japan: For too long, Japan’s youth have been a silent minority. Now, on the eve of a crucially important general election, they seek a bigger voice in forging the future of their aging nation A modest house in western…
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Disarm the Gallery: Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade links
Read more: Disarm the Gallery: Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade linksThe National Gallery’s long-standing sponsorship arrangement with weapons manufacturer Finmeccanica has ended, following a campaign by Campaign Against Arms Trade to ‘Disarm the Gallery.’ The arrangement has been terminated one year early and just weeks before the next protest event…
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Shell Skull Stig: Art Not Oil Galleries
Read more: Shell Skull Stig: Art Not Oil GalleriesThe group Art Not Oil did a campaign to raise awareness about the oil industry, and their funding of Art. “Art Not Oil has campaigned against Big Oil cultural sponsorship since 2004. It has also encouraged artists – and would-be…
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A Call That Makes Change Approachable
Read more: A Call That Makes Change ApproachableThe Story of Stuff Project launches a new video. What is instructional, educational, and inspirational is a call for all the people in America to exercise their citizenship rather than their right to consume. Here is what Annie Leonard (co-founder…
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Ossario: Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Ossario: Reverse GraffitiVisual artist Alexandre Orion removes soot in an artful manner to produce skulls in the tunnels of the polluted city of Sao Paulo. Orion does so in an attempt to create intervention, raise awarenes, and decrease pollution. “From the ocular…
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A Map of Error
Read more: A Map of ErrorBuenos Aires in Argentina is the only city in the world where streets named Palestine and Israel intersect on the city grid. Taking advantage of this situation, The Errorist Movement decided to protest against the conflict in Gaza in that…
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El Cerro
Read more: El CerroExcerpts from Chemi Rosado’s lecture at The Creative Time Summit 2011: “For me, there are four major aspects that this project has achieved: 1. It’s a Social Active work of art 2. The exchange of knowledge between people that normally…
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Public Fruit Jam
Read more: Public Fruit Jam“Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind…
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International Errorist Movement
Read more: International Errorist Movementerrare humanum est Augustine of Hippo, Sermones Capitalism is the most insidious error that has been successfully dissimulated. The International Errorist Manifesto The IV Summit of the Americas took place in Mar del Plata, Argentina on the first days of…
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MADE HERE Project: Documentary Series
Read more: MADE HERE Project: Documentary SeriesMADE HERE is a documentary series and website focusing on performing artists based in New York City. A collage of intimate interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage, MADE HERE mirrors the rich diversity of the artists and communities they serve. It…
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Necessity of “Moral and National Education” as curriculum
Read more: Necessity of “Moral and National Education” as curriculumMoral and national education (MNE) s a school curriculum proposed by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong, transformed from the current moral and civic education (MCE). This curriculum evoked huge controversy in Hong Kong society for its “biased content” about…
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…