Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Guernica
Read more: GuernicaPablo Picasso painted Guernica in just five weeks in the spring of 1937. Then living in Paris, Picasso, fifty-five, was already well-known. Born in Spain in 1881, he went to Paris in 1900; he had visited Spain in 1934 but…
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Game of Floods
Read more: Game of FloodsMarin County’s “Game of Floods” teaches citizens how to make tough decisions for the future. Super-high king tides hammered homes and roads in Marin County, California this past winter, and residents can expect worse as rising seas threaten to super-soak…
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Ghosts of Union Square – The Contested City
Read more: Ghosts of Union Square – The Contested City“This project took aim at a public relations campaign produced by The Union Square Partnership, a local Business Improvement District (BID) attempting to privatize the north end of NYC’s Union Square park and install a high-end celebrity chef restaurant. They…
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45 Tweets
Read more: 45 TweetsI have been composing and singing a selection of our President’s tweets. I have two goals for this ongoing project. One is to laugh which helps all of us deal with the high anxiety of our times. The second is…
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Notice Nature
Read more: Notice NatureNotice Nature was a public engagement action undertaken by participants in the Erasmus+ funded training ‘Creativity and Change: Empathy 2 Action – nurturing response-able global citizens’ which took place in Cork from 8th – 13th April 2017. The team members…
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Dare to Connect
Read more: Dare to ConnectWe were aiming to raise awareness and empathy around the theme of loneliness and disconnection, by engaging with passers by on a personal level and helping them to think about what they could do to make others feel less disconnected.…
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Her Story homeless people
Read more: Her Story homeless peopleBrainstorm of ideas and collection of the group individual experiences and input. Preparation and design of the action. Interview of a member of local organization that is working with homeless. Research of data,concrete stories. Build up the scenario to establish…
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Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Read more: Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migrationThe participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork. As a part of this training we were asked to plan a campaign around “Empathy to action”. Our theme was global forced migration. We wanted…
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Children should be seen and heard
Read more: Children should be seen and heardNAME OF PROJECT: ‘CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND HEARD’ TEAM MEMBERS: Caroline, Yasir, Sile, Audrey & Mary GLOBAL CHALLENGE: To give children a voice and create empathy among adults for children ♯childrenshouldbeseenandheard WHAT WE DID: We created a space within…
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Read more: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence“The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and…
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Mamas de la Esquina
Read more: Mamas de la EsquinaArgentina’s Sex Workers Get Creative In Argentina, the combination of prostitution being legal and a lack of protective laws has led one group, AMMAR, to get inventive. Their series of ads featured in this slide show, created by Ogilvy &…
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Future Internment Camps
Read more: Future Internment CampsOver the weekend, Plastic Jesus affixed 50 signs to construction sites throughout the country that read, “Lot reserved for: Future Internment Camp.” You may have spotted some odd signs with a dark message while walking around your city in the…