Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Alzheimer’s Disease Fonts
Read more: Alzheimer’s Disease FontsOn Sept 21, 2017, the professional committee of dementia and related diseases of China geriatric health association, together with many caring enterprises, jointly launched a public welfare activity entitled “no longer forget”, hoping to call on the public to pay…
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Misereor PlaCard The Social Swipe
Read more: Misereor PlaCard The Social SwipeDevelop an interactive poster that revolutionises the act of giving. It calls on people to donate, accepts credit cards and shows every donor what their donation does. Dank einer eigens entwickelten Software reicht ein einfaches Durchziehen der Kreditkarte, um 2…
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The vital work of women street photographers
Read more: The vital work of women street photographersIn 2016, photojournalist Gulnara Samoilova was running a successful wedding photography business. Her diverse portfolio of work spans two decades — with images in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library, 9/11 Memorial Museum and Houston Museum of…
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Virtual Museum Law Conference on the Pandemic Effects
Read more: Virtual Museum Law Conference on the Pandemic Effects“Work-from-home lawyers and museum staff convened by webinar on 11 and 12 March, for an annual conference on Legal Issues in Museum Administration, hosted by the non-profit American Law Institute with the support of the Smithsonian Institution. This year’s focus…
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Student flash mobs in Thailand
Read more: Student flash mobs in Thailand“Thai artists and art students are on the frontline of their country’s swelling pro-democracy movement, calling for reforms of Thailand’s military-backed government, and breaking both taboo and national law to criticise the nation’s monarchy. The near-daily flash mobs numbering in…
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Women turned Protective Wall into a memorial
Read more: Women turned Protective Wall into a memorialAhead of Monday’s planned protest, police set up a barricade around the presidential palace, which a spokesperson described as a “peace wall” to prevent vandalism, the Guardian reported. But protesters said the barrier was symbolic of the president’s refusal to…
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#IAmMySong
Read more: #IAmMySongIn response to a memo from Afghanistan’s education ministry, Ahmad Sarmast, the founder of Afghanistan’s Institute of Music, began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #IAmMySong. In response to the hashtag, Afghan girls have taken to Twitter with videos of…
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Vienna Rye’s Zine and Instagram: A Space for Education
Read more: Vienna Rye’s Zine and Instagram: A Space for EducationInstagram and Zines have become a tool for activists worldwide, and Vienna Rye (@vrye) has amassed over 126,000 followers by promoting education, mutual aid, and advocacy. They are a self-taught visual artist and revolutionary community organizer, which translates into their…
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Love Queer Cinema Week (aka the Beijing Queer Film Festival)
Read more: Love Queer Cinema Week (aka the Beijing Queer Film Festival)Founded 19 years ago, the Beijing Queer Film Festival (aka Love Queer Cinema Week) is one of the grassroots film festivals in China focusing on independent queer film screenings and cultural exchange activities. We aim to expand public discussions on…
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Resistance to the stereotypes of poetry
Read more: Resistance to the stereotypes of poetryThe aim of the action is to create a fractal network of poets, where their poems will be recited, recorded, set to music, will be activistically acted as performance material in order to resist the censorship of art. The field…
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呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
Read more: 呼吸之痛 The Pain of BreathPneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine…
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Ice Watch
Read more: Ice WatchDoes it vex you, the environmental impact of Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch? Do you hear about the transportation of 30 icebergs from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland to be displayed in London as a memento mori for our inhabitable…