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Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governing

Date:
Apr 14 1995

In 1995, Bogota was a chaotic city. Among others, it presented high ranges of homicides, delinquency, corruption, no sense of belonging, traffic chaos and financial problems. People were desperate and they were ready to accept any alternative to a change…

Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclaves

Practitioner:
Movimiento Okupa

Date:
Apr 14 1995

A Centro Social Okupado Autogestionado (Self-Managed Occupied Social Center) or CSOA is an occupied building dedicated to the development of social and cultural activities. They are part of the “movimiento okupa” (“squatter movement”), a label created and circulated by the…

Vacated

Practitioner:
Justin Blinder

Date:
Apr 14 1995

Vacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO dataset, and it leverages…

#SaveNYC

Practitioner:
JEREMIAH MOSS, new yorkers

Date:
Apr 14 1995

#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores…

Most Likely Safe

Practitioner:
Food and Water Watch, Yes Lab

Date:
Apr 14 1995

In April, 2011, Food and Water Watch partnered with Yes Lab to raise questions regarding drinking water around New York City. Yes Lab, an organization that collaborates with activist groups, aims to create successful media-related creative actions that help raise…

Blind Ones

Practitioner:
Sao Paulo Art Students

Date:
Apr 14 1995

Students from the School of Communication and Art of the University of Sao Paulo perform a skit titled ‘Blind Ones’ as a protest against consumerism inside a shopping mall of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, December 9,…

Hypothetical Development Organization

Practitioner:
Hypothetical Development Organization

Date:
Apr 14 1995

Members of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse —“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only…

Poop Protest

Practitioner:
Hongkongers

Date:
Apr 14 1995

A mainland couple allowed their 2-year-old son to relieve himself by the road at Mangkok, Hong Kong and conflicted with local pedestrians who took photos of the child caused quite a stir among Chinese netizens. While the majority of mainland…

The Dreamland Artist Club

Practitioner:
and Swoon, Beatriz Barral, Bruno Peinado, Clive Murphy, Crash, Gary Panter, Greg Lamarche, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Justin Green, Kamau Patton, Mimi Gross, Os Gemeos, Paul Lindahl, Ronnie Cutrone, Steve Powers, Tauba Auerbach, Vandana Jain

Date:
Apr 14 1995

The Dreamland Artist Club project was named after one of the famous amusement parks in Coney Island. The project consisted of more than 25 artists coming together to repaint rides and make custom signs, murals and scenic backdrops for the…

#ANOTHERLIGHTUP

Practitioner:
Design Indaba Trust, Faith47, Thinking

Date:
Apr 14 1995

In Cape Town, South Africa the design firms Design Indaba Trust and Thinking have teamed up with artist Faith47 to help raise funds to bring more light to their urban city. Their goal is to raise funds to light up…