Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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Green Corners
Read more: Green CornersThe project focuses on creating green spaces as effective elements which ameliorate air quality absorbing chemicals from the atmosphere. In order to develop an alternative pedagogical approach into Tehran’s public schools, the initiator, in close collaboration with the botanist Shahrouz…
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Room13Delmar
Read more: Room13DelmarRoom13Delmar is a tricycle-based mobile studio conceived as a sculpture: a cross between a vending tricycle and a ‘Mary Poppins’ bag that unfolds to create a space for creativity on the sidewalk, at a senior center and at a veterans…
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Crafted in Istanbul
Read more: Crafted in IstanbulCraftsmanship in Istanbul is under the danger of extinction with all the knowledge accumulated with generations of masters and apprentices. After visiting some workshops in the city, craftsmen shared with the initiators how their condition and businesses have changed since…
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From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil & Injustice
Read more: From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil & InjusticeAfter artists learned that London’s Design Museum was connected to Leonardo, a large arms dealing company, and hosted an event for them, many of the artists featured in their Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-2018 asked the museum for…
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Polylogues
Read more: PolyloguesJournalist and playwright Xandra Clark began creating Polylogues, a one woman show exploring non-monogamy, in 2017. The show is created from interviews Clark conducts around the world with people of different ages, genders, and races about their relationship with non-monogamy…
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Abortion rights and Body Vulnerability
Read more: Abortion rights and Body VulnerabilityThe rise in feminism and feminist advocacy has changed history forever in terms of how women are viewed and treated in society. Though great progress has been made, women are still fighting for their rights even today. Abortion and body…
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Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in Spain
Read more: Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in SpainThe artist I chose to focus on personally is the photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero. I used photos from her photography essay España Oculta, in which Rodero traveled to small villages in Spain to document the resident’s lives. Our group’s main…
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Female Immigrants and Related Artwork
Read more: Female Immigrants and Related ArtworkAs massacres, civil wars, and violence permeated communities, people have searched for asylum in other countries. Due to its location and relative safety, Spain has become a common destination for immigrants seeking a better life. Female immigrants in particular tend…
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The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Read more: The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discriminationDisabled people gathered to protest at the site where a memorial to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 is being built. We are keen to have a memorial to Peterloo, but we want one we can be proud of, rather than…
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Prescription Blizzard
Read more: Prescription BlizzardThe scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground. Designed to look like prescription slips for OxyContin, the…