Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Reporter’s viral eye roll causes trouble with Chinese censors
Read more: Reporter’s viral eye roll causes trouble with Chinese censorsBy Steven Jiang, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/asia/china-viral-eye-roll-intl/index.html (CNN)It was the eye roll that resonated with millions — and broke the internet in China. On the sidelines of the country’s annual parliament session, a Chinese journalist on Tuesday morning showed her contempt for…
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Vision Workshops
Read more: Vision WorkshopsVisionWorkshops is the creative force behind a series of highly effective photography workshops for youth from underserved communities worldwide. Our mission is to provide innovative, dynamic, educational and life changing experiences for youth, using the tools of photojournalism. Their goals…
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Fashion As Political Activism
Read more: Fashion As Political ActivismAfter eight days of fall/winter New York Fashion Week, the most prominent trend—pervading both the runways and streets—has been social and political activism. To outsiders, New York Fashion Week may seem trivial in a time of more pressing news, but…
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LEGOVC
Read more: LEGOVCLEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, ‘pantomime villain’ Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is…
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Tsinghua students use Women’s Day to joke about ending presidential term limits
Read more: Tsinghua students use Women’s Day to joke about ending presidential term limitsStudents at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University are celebrating International Women’s Day with banners making light of a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap term limits for the country’s president. One banner joked that a boyfriend’s term should also have no limits,…
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General Idea and the AIDS crises
Read more: General Idea and the AIDS crisesThe Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…
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Capitol Lawn Covered in 7,000 Pairs of Shoes
Read more: Capitol Lawn Covered in 7,000 Pairs of ShoesProtesters left 7,000 pairs of shoes in front of the Capitol building Tuesday to symbolize the number of children killed by gun violence in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012. From 8:30 am…
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Oxycontin Protest at the Met
Read more: Oxycontin Protest at the MetThe US artist Nan Goldin has staged her first public protest since she launched her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), shaming members of the Sackler family who have profited from the sale of Oxycontin and institutions that have…
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Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s Day
Read more: Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s DayGoogle is honoring female artists and their stories this International Women’s Day. On Thursday, the tech company will feature 12 interactive illustrations or “Google Doodles” on the search platform’s homepage. The artists are from 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan,…
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Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air Pollution
Read more: Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air PollutionIn December 2015, she stepped out in a wedding dress adorned with hundreds of air pollution masks and walked the streets appealing to Beijingers to take public transport rather than contribute to the choking smog by driving. The year before,…
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Avy Search and Rescue Drone
Read more: Avy Search and Rescue DroneA rescue drone for refugees in danger whilst traveling across the Mediterranean Sea. Last year alone, 3,500 refugees perished attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The Avy Search and Rescue Drone is specifically designed to help refugee boats. The drone…
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Fresh Direct
Read more: Fresh DirectOur solution: Fresh Direct Nigeria (Fresh Direct Produce and Agro-Allied Services) is “City Farming” using stackable container farms! Fresh DirectNigeria brings fresh premium organic produce closer to market with our Container Farm Technology. Our pitch: We are making agriculture hyper…