Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Bringing Awareness to the TGI Experience
Read more: Bringing Awareness to the TGI ExperienceKokumo, pronounced “koh-koo-mah”, is a trans gender activist whose very name embodies her bold path of resistance. Taken from the West African dialect Yoruba, Kokumo means “this woman will not die.” Kokumo chose her name in response to constantly being…
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Robin Hooding
Read more: Robin HoodingRobin Hood of Keene is the most popular act of engagement with the community that FreeKeene has experimented with so far. Robin Hood employs a handful of individuals to feed the parking meters in downtown Keene. They are funded by…
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The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Read more: The Great Wall of Los AngelesThe Great Wall of Los Angeles represents a minority perspective/p.o.v. of the history of the city. Judy Baca first began the mural in 1974 through SPARC at the rise of the Chicano movement. The project was a part of the…
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American Prison Perpestives
Read more: American Prison PerpestivesWith American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions. There are many insightful conclusions…
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Global Earth Exchange
Read more: Global Earth ExchangeOnce a year people all over the Earth go to places that they love and where they live that have been damaged, and they bring attention, curiosity, a sense of adventure, and beauty there. In the process we give back…
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Now Watch This
Read more: Now Watch ThisThe Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places. The SCP was formed in New York City in November 1996 by…
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No nos vamos, nos echan
Read more: No nos vamos, nos echanThe “no nos vamos, nos echan” campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced…
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Sing for the Climate
Read more: Sing for the ClimateSing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium. More than 80.000 people in more than 180 Belgian cities and communities sang the song “Do it Now”, urging…
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Gesta Final
Read more: Gesta FinalHAVANA — It’s the latest challenge for computer gamers, in Cuba at least: Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s dictator…
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Kärrtorp Guerilla Community Garden
Read more: Kärrtorp Guerilla Community GardenApril 2012 we occupied a vacant wild lot in our local community to start this community garden. External sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFOFApYmGUo
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Upper Class Safari
Read more: Upper Class SafariWhen the activist group Allt åt Alla wanted to highlight the growing inequality in Sweden they decided to hit the road. A Over Class Safari (Överklassafari) was announced and ticket were sold. The bus ride covered both a working area…
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Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia
Read more: Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbiaby Pete Brook High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal arrangement of the prison site, to him, replicated the…