Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Songs of the Revolution: A Bahrain Website Mixes Music and Activism
Read more: Songs of the Revolution: A Bahrain Website Mixes Music and ActivismSongs of the Revolution: A Bahrain Website Mixes Music and Activism You might want to start brushing up on your Iranian rap. Or Palestinian trance. Jordanian Punk will be important too. And don’t forget Bahraini R&B. This is the music…
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SlutWalk
Read more: SlutWalkThe SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman’s appearance. The rallies…
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Ukraine’s Femen: Topless protests ‘help feminist cause’
Read more: Ukraine’s Femen: Topless protests ‘help feminist cause’FEMEN is a feminist Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, religious institutions, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international topics.Some of the…
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Somerville Stock Exchange
Read more: Somerville Stock Exchange“The Fine Art Of Investing” Spare Change News, October 19, 2012. Cambridge MA. It’s an interesting gamble. One of the most relevant fields of study today is Emergence Theory, the science of human cooperation. The Somerville Stock Exchange, an interactive…
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Stretch The Strangle Hold
Read more: Stretch The Strangle HoldAmerican Painter, Joe Lovett completes painting of historic magnitude, Stretch the Strangle Hold is a painting that captures an emotional response to the lie of war. After witnessing daily news reports exposing the political lies and the senseless death of…
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Creative activism and the remaking of Palestine
Read more: Creative activism and the remaking of PalestineCreative activism and the remaking of Palestine While policy wonks and media pundits wallow in endless debates about Jewish settlements and the threat of terror, Palestinian groups are creatively exploring alternative ways to realise their national aspirations. In an unassuming…
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“Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraud
Read more: “Guerras Electorales”….a game that mimics electoral fraudRight before the presidential elections in Mexico, planned for July of 2012, a local software enterprise has developed a smart-phone game that shows how to commit fraud at the elections. The game, called Guerras Electorales (Electoral Wars)and created by a…
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Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble
Read more: Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble“Twelve members of the ‘Reclaim Shakespeare Company’ staged an unexpected protest performance inside the ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’ exhibition at the British Museum. At 3.30pm, a dozen members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” theatrical action group launched a surprise piece…
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Poor Little Fish
Read more: Poor Little FishIs it possible that through affective design we can change our consumer behavior? Yan Lu and his “Little Fish Project” offer a design inspired solution to excess use of water. “As consumption is incalculable, saving is often neglected through daily…
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Garrido Boxing Academy
Read more: Garrido Boxing AcademyThe odd spaces exiting under bridges and viaducts around the world are often left aside, urban spatial residues mostly abandoned or occupied informally by homeless people drug users etc. The former pro boxer Nilson Garrido saw the space under the…
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Double Happiness
Read more: Double HappinessArchitect Didier Faustino strips a billboard down to its skeleton, repurposes it as a swing set, and names it Double Happiness. This “urban reactivation device” needs to become a world wide phenomenon. Imagine billboard swing sets waiting at every destination.…
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Occupy Supporters In Protest At St Paul’s
Read more: Occupy Supporters In Protest At St Paul’sOccupy Supporters In Protest At St Paul’s: Protesters leave St Paul’s after staging a protest in solidarity with Russian anarcho-punk band Pussy Riot. Protesters leave St Paul’s after staging a protest in solidarity with Russian anarcho-punk band Pussy Riot. 4:49am…