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El Matam El Mish Masry

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The project was based on the creation of a restaurant in the neighborhood of El Lewa, Cairo – one of the many neighborhoods built illegally, known as Ashguahiyats, a term meaning ‘leaving things to chance’. Using different kinds of menus,…

Phone Story

Practitioner:
Michael Pineschi

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Phone Story is an educational game about the hidden social costs of smartphone manufacturing. Follow your phone’s journey from the Coltan mines of the Congo to the electronic waste dumps in Pakistan through four colorful mini-games. Compete with market forces…

BeeCare Amsterdam

Practitioner:
Hans Kalliwoda

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The survival of bees in the world is threatened and the extinction of bees is a serious threat to the human race too. Over the past few years, it seems that bees have a greater chance of survival in cities…

Falling Fruit

Practitioner:
Caleb Phillips, Ethan Welty

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The Falling Fruit project was born from a passion for food and the environment. It is organised in an open-source database that brings together the entirety of maps made by foragers from the Internet. The database also includes edible species…

Power Call

Practitioner:
Bruce Douglas, Sue Mark

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Power Call is a nomadic, interactive energy commons in San Francisco to the Bay Area. Using low-tech systems, Power Call harnesses, stores and dispenses energy for recharging a variety of cell phones. Anyone can contribute to the energy commons by…

Public Dissentiment

Practitioner:
Derek Curry

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The project consists of an online tool that helps protestors negatively impact the price of a publicly traded stock by using the same sentiment analysis tools used by many stock trading algorithms. In the contemporary stock markets, high-frequency trading bots…

The Peoples Bank of Govanhill

Practitioner:
Ailie Rutherford, Carmen Sawers, Katherine MacKinnon

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community. The project was intiated by artist Ailie…

The Aphrodite Project

Practitioner:
Norene Leddy

Date:
Apr 1 2003

In the past, prostitution was intrinsically tied to religion ritual and public policy, and it wasn’t considered a taboo. Taking up from the idea of ancient sandals worn by prostitutes, the artist has created platform shoes that specifically focused on…

Shmoogle

Practitioner:
Missdata

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Shmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google’s results but in random order. In one click Shmoogle instantly neutralizes the PageRank hierarchy and the whole SEO industry induced by it. Missdata, questions the…

Green Corners

Practitioner:
Negar Farajiani

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The project focuses on creating green spaces as effective elements which ameliorate air quality absorbing chemicals from the atmosphere. In order to develop an alternative pedagogical approach into Tehran’s public schools, the initiator, in close collaboration with the botanist Shahrouz…

The Milk Truck

Practitioner:
Jill Miller

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The Milk Truck is a combination of guerrilla theatre, activism and slapstick humour. When a woman finds herself in a situation where she is discouraged, harassed, or unwelcome to breastfeed her baby in public, she contacts The Milk Truck. The…

Room13Delmar

Practitioner:
Ilene Berman

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Room13Delmar is a tricycle-based mobile studio conceived as a sculpture: a cross between a vending tricycle and a ‘Mary Poppins’ bag that unfolds to create a space for creativity on the sidewalk, at a senior center and at a veterans…