Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Coursera
Read more: CourseraDaphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that partners with top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the top universities are educating millions…
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Honest Shop
Read more: Honest ShopA village shop in Coniston is stocked by local producers with everything from farm meat and vegetables to paintings and knitted goods. The produce is all homemade and brought in by local suppliers. Customers are invited to buy goods in…
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Intervention #1
Read more: Intervention #158,241 evictions were conducted in Spain in 2011, mostly through real estate speculation by the Mediterranean Savings Bank. In Intervention #1, the artist created a cooperative through which she contracted a construction worker (who himself had been evicted from his…
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Anti Eviction Mapping Project
Read more: Anti Eviction Mapping ProjectThe project consists of a website for data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective formed to document and make visible the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents and to facilitate and organized collective resistance. The project studies the displacement of…
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Crafted in Istanbul
Read more: Crafted in IstanbulCraftsmanship in Istanbul is under the danger of extinction with all the knowledge accumulated with generations of masters and apprentices. After visiting some workshops in the city, craftsmen shared with the initiators how their condition and businesses have changed since…
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Autonomy Cube
Read more: Autonomy CubePursuing the possibility of emancipatory use of technology, Paglen, together with Jacob Appelbaum, developed Autonomy Cube (2014). Autonomy Cube is a sculpture and internet router designed to be housed in civic spaces. The sculpture is meant to be both “seen”…
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Two Hats
Read more: Two HatsRon Krielen is a social designer and a taxi driver. He spent five years driving a taxi for elderly and disabled people. En route, he would get to know them and their individual situation. He realized that this kind of…
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Guide for Youth Protestors
Read more: Guide for Youth ProtestorsThe project consists of a double-sided, hand-drawn 8.5″ x 11″ quarter-fold sheet available to print and distribute freely. It features such topics as basic information on police tactics (kettling, LRADS, tear gas or pepper spray), ways cops might try to…
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Day after Debt
Read more: Day after DebtThe artist conceived the project as a collaborative exhibition featuring five art-as-response pieces to the student loan crisis and the pressure it causes upon graduates. In its original version, Öğüt invited Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Superflex, Dan Perjovschi, Martha Rosler to…
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Destigmatization
Read more: DestigmatizationDestigmatization was made in Vrapče Psychiatric Hospital in Zagreb in collaboration with a working group consisting of mentor Dubravka Stijačić, prof. (defectologist, social pedagogue and psychotherapist who has since 1996 run an independent unit in the Vrapče Psychiatric Hospital called…
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Rituals Adjacent to Capitalism
Read more: Rituals Adjacent to CapitalismThe project provides somatic rituals to solve the problems of creative makers, offering specific somatic instructions for how to deal with breaks in (or lack of) creativity. Rituals available as a live, interactive performance and as limited-edition chapbooks, and broaden…
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Talking Hands
Read more: Talking HandsThe project responds to the urgency that many asylum seekers and refugees have as soon as they touch a new country’s soil: working and learning the language. The project, located in the former army barracks ‘Caserma Piave’ in Treviso, started…