Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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smArt Action
Read more: smArt ActionSmart Action – english – smArtAction is a collaborative art exhibition organized by a group of University of Puerto Rico and New York University student-activists. The exhibition will showcase artwork created during the 2010-2011 UPR student strikes or in conversation…
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Alternative News Agency: revolution’s visual narratives revisited
Read more: Alternative News Agency: revolution’s visual narratives revisitedfrom ahramonlineby Sara Elkamel An indelible link has materialised between artistic expression and revolution. Maybe it is the features they share: freedom, deviance and fluidity, which bring them so close together. In any case, Egypt’s January 25 Revolution undeniably led…
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Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe Streets
Read more: Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe StreetsFrom Women’s News NetworkYEMEN: Even though the connection to the internet has been intermittent at best and often too slow, women advocates in Yemen are now working to push digital tech as a means to improve society and gain human…
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Activist Hackers Temporarily Block Putin’s Website
Read more: Activist Hackers Temporarily Block Putin’s WebsiteFrom ReutersBy Vladimir Soldatkin Hackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin’s web site on Wednesday, carrying out a promise to disrupt government information portals two days after his swearing-in for another six-year term that has drawn street protests. The hacker activist…
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Big Bang Big Boom
Read more: Big Bang Big Boom“For those who haven’t seen it, Big Bang Big Boom (2010) is yet another fabulous animated graffiti parable from the Blu art collective. Their work is endlessly fascinating — animated creatures sliding seamlessly from walls, through sand, along pipes and…
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Slide Archive and Document Library
Read more: Slide Archive and Document Library“The traveling mini-exhibition aims to gather a snap-shot of contemporary cultural production. Editors collect items and contributions are ongoing.” (From site.) External sources: http://joaap.org/projects/library/JOAAP.htm http://joaap.org/Projectfiles/slidearchive.htm
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Overlooked New York
Read more: Overlooked New York“To discover the seemingly endless variety of enthusiasms pursued by New Yorkers, whether they were carried from immigrants’ cultures from overseas or indigenous to the city landscape. These are real New Yorkers who have found fascinating ways to unleash their…
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The Uni Project
Read more: The Uni Project“The Uni Project aims to do one thing and do it well: temporarily transform almost any available urban space into a public reading room and venue for learning. We start with the conviction that books and learning should be prominent,…
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Tactical Urbanism
Read more: Tactical Urbanism“Improving the livability of our towns and cities commonly starts at the street, block, or building scale. While larger scale efforts do have their place, incremental, smallscale improvement efforts are increasingly seen as a way to stage more substantial investments.…
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Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about Haiti
Read more: Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about HaitiFrom Games for Change site: Global Kids has established itself as an innovative leader in using online games to promote global awareness and engaged citizenship. Through the Playing 4 Keeps program, Global Kids trains urban youth to develop games about…
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Play the News: Making the News Interactive
Read more: Play the News: Making the News InteractiveFrom Games for Change site: “Play the News” is a web-based platform to bring interactive gaming elements to the online news media industry, and current event based classroom. Impact Games has created an engine to drive “Interactive News” mini games…
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Eclipse
Read more: Eclipse“Nearly 2 million decaying Goodyear tires lie submerged off the coast of South Florida, decrepit hunks of rubber that have gradually succumbed to the pressures of tides and tropical storms. The steel cables that once strung them along the ocean…