Projects tagged
Cities
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Our City: Designing Your City
Read more: Our City: Designing Your CityOur City is a startup nonprofit based in Oakland and working with cities everywhere. They work with governments, cultural institutions, companies, community organizations, designers, and residents to produce events, installations, and workshops that use public design to improve cities. Our…
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Pimp My Carroça
Read more: Pimp My CarroçaWith the intention of recognizing the work of the Latin American carreteros (garbage pickers) that collect recyclable materials in wheel carts, and increase environmental consciousness, artist Mundano created “Pimp My Carroça” The brazilian graffiti artist started pimping carrocas years ago…
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You’d Better Watch Your Step In Madrid
Read more: You’d Better Watch Your Step In MadridLuzinterruptus turns their art activism towards the overabundance of dog doo littering the city’s streets. The studio inflated 500 poop-scoopin’ plastic bags and placed a lightbulb inside each one. Installation lasted nine hours. External sources: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/madrids-dog-poop-problem-inspires-led-ar…
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Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and Activism
Read more: Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and ActivismLos Angeles is at a critical moment when it comes to art. Not because it’s “underappreciated as a world art center” as The New York Times informed us in 2011. Or because it’s a “burgeoning art capital” as The New…
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I Have a Right Too…
Read more: I Have a Right Too…CAM brings contemporary art and ideas directly to Saint Louis Public High School and Middle School students through its ArtReach program. Tailored to meet the needs of individual schools and teachers, ArtReach is designed to raise awareness of contemporary issues…
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Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the Streets
Read more: Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the StreetsWhat is looping? Somewhere in between art, activism, and wackiness is this liberating experience. Matthew Silver and Fritz Donnelley, two New York City based performance artists got lonely acting silly in their underwear in public. Knowing that there were enough…
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Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them Fixed
Read more: Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them FixedArmed with a can of washable spray paint, an artist in Greater Manchester, England, has embarked on a worthy crusade: to rid the region of potholes… by drawing penises on them. The anonymous artist, who goes by the name “Wanksy,”…
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Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike
Read more: Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hikeBrooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike The owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppified names and jacking up prices to illustrate the…
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Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Read more: Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega“is a conceptual documentary project in which I photographed every Mom and Pop-style cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible, as I walked each block in the city ( CLICK FOR A MAP of my route). I…
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Murales Imborrables
Read more: Murales ImborrablesIn March this year, less than 100 days since he took office again, Luis Castañeda Lossio, Mayor of Lima, announced that the Municipality would remove the street art murals painted on the walls of downtown Lima’s historical city streets. “Lima…