Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Streets into Gardens
Read more: Streets into GardensDuring this time rent prices in the Lower East Side/ East Village were rising due to the presence of many community gardens. In response to this, then Mayor Giuliani decided to sell the 198 gardens in question. Streets into Gardens…
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Camp Frack
Read more: Camp FrackCamp Frack was a protest festival in Lancashire, UK, an area near industrial energy plants that produce shale gas. Around 150 activists from both Frack Off and Campaign against Climate Control (CCC) set up the festival, featuring food, music and…
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HEARD•NY
Read more: HEARD•NYPublic arts advocator, Creative Time, and the MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design (AFT) partnered to present Heard NY, a public art dance and music installation facilitated by artist, choreographer, and fashion designer Nick Cave. Heard NY was created…
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VIHDA Means Life
Read more: VIHDA Means LifeWith the support of the Amy Rossborough Foundation and several other Yale University affiliated departments, Tamara Leacock, while a senior at Yale University, designed a collection and produced a fashion show that explored through fashion, dance, and carnival an intimate…
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Articulo 6 (Action 1)
Read more: Articulo 6 (Action 1)Fashion designer and social scientist, Lucia Cuba, has taken up the task of using fashion as a vehicle to bring attention and awareness around Articulo 6, an article in the Peruvian constitution that declared a law of forced sterilization of…
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Fashion In Action!
Read more: Fashion In Action!On the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011’s season of Mercedes Benz’s New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs…
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Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activism
Read more: Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activismBy Steve Knopper To fight world hunger and transform their fans into social activists, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Kanye West, My Morning Jacket and dozens of other stars will donate two tickets to every show…
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Swift Project
Read more: Swift Project“Since the progress of civilization in our country has furnished thousands of convenient places for this Swallow to breed in, safe from storms, snakes, or quadrupeds, it has abandoned, with a judgment worthy of remark, its former abodes in the…
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Between A Rock and A Hard Place
Read more: Between A Rock and A Hard PlaceBetween A Rock And A Hard Place is a project consisting of a cleaning performance, a film and a big event on August 18, 2012. From the material recorded on this day, a film and a vinyl record will be…
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Wearable Portable Architecture
Read more: Wearable Portable ArchitectureThe “Wearable/Portable Architecture project” discussed the possibilities of having a locale create portable architecture based on the conditions of its environmental, urban and cultural conditions. It is structured to find ways in providing new arguments and sustaining an artistic impetus…
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Green Maps for Resilient Cities Everywhere
Read more: Green Maps for Resilient Cities EverywhereHow Green is My City? Take part in mapping a fresh perspective on your community! Learn about the global Green Map movement and GreenMap.org. Created locally in sixty-five countries, hundreds of Green Maps highlight sustainable living resources and the natural,…
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Kit de Libertad de Expresión (Freedom of Speech Kit)
Read more: Kit de Libertad de Expresión (Freedom of Speech Kit)The KLE – Kit de Libertad de Expresión (or Freedom of Speech Kit), is a portable digital device that allows people from all over the world to participate to remote protests by sending and displaying text messages in public space.…