Projects tagged
Cities
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Singing to Disrupt Housing Auction
Read more: Singing to Disrupt Housing AuctionDemonstrators aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement sang their way into handcuffs during a Bronx foreclosure auction Monday to protest the housing crisis that continues to plague the borough. They serenaded a courtroom of real estate investors with the…
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Belgium Disappears
Read more: Belgium DisappearsFor a brief moment on Wednesday night it appeared that Belgium had disappeared. The main French language television station hoodwinked the country into thinking that it had split in two when it reported that Flanders had issued a unilateral declaration…
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Respect The Living Too
Read more: Respect The Living TooAn advertising agency creates a one-time action for traffic safety, then uses documentation to generate awards and free promotion for their company. Did traffic fatalities actually drop after this was done once? Their Press Release doesn’t make mention. From McCann’s…
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New Walk Ways in New Bell
Read more: New Walk Ways in New BellThe city of Douala in Cameroon had a huge problem associated with malfunctioning water drainage systems. This is due the fact that in many illegally constructed areas of the town, the sewers are without cover, and after heavy rainfall, this…
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Face Your World
Read more: Face Your WorldFace Your World was set up as a tailor-made educational program for the youngster to explore and participate in the process of city renewal. The project used Interactor software, an interactive tool to enable users to rebuild their neighborhood. The…
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Turning a public toilet into a spa
Read more: Turning a public toilet into a spaFor three days, Ruben Santiago installed, without any official authorization, a hydro-massage shower in a public bathroom in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. The installation also made available to users bath gel, shampoo and towels that were regularly replaced. The…
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Ticketing Jessica Lappin
Read more: Ticketing Jessica LappinThe initiators collaborated with the Street Vendor Project (SVP) of the Urban Justice Center to campaign against New York City Council Member Jessica Lappin’s 2010 law project. The bill, intended to revoke permits issued to street vendor trucks if they…
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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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Anti Eviction Mapping Project
Read more: Anti Eviction Mapping ProjectThe project consists of a website for data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective formed to document and make visible the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents and to facilitate and organized collective resistance. The project studies the displacement of…
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Invisible Homeless
Read more: Invisible HomelessArtist Luke Jerram created a genderless sleeping figure made of glass lying on a piece of cardboard and exhibited in the streets of London. The artist said in an interview “For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there…