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Chatty cockroach
Read more: Chatty cockroachThis is the image confronting Greeks from an Athenian drain . “Hello, I live in the sewers of Athens,” says the cockroach. “Yes, me too,” says an Athenian walking past, apparently unfazed by the idea of an insect talking to…
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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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Birthday Party For A Pothole
Read more: Birthday Party For A PotholeA group of young adults under the name of “Love Tijuana” (Amemos Tijuana) celebrated the one year “Birthday” of a pothole located at the Via Rapida (Tijuana’s Freeway) with balloons, banners, and even hats. The giant pothole that was covered…
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What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?
Read more: What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?“Discovering Columbus,” by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. Nishi built a living room around the sculpture in Columbus Circle in New York City. The living room is mounted on scaffolding and turns the sculpture into a domestic center-piece. “Since 1997,…
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Read more: How do you get to Flushing Creek?Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was…
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
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Read more: Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…
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refuge for refugees
Read more: refuge for refugeesTwo design students were awarded the Futurapolis prize last Wednesday for their project to adapt the Furan (underground river) , a response to the migration crisis. Winners of the Futurapolis prize, which aims to encourage students to work on sustainable…
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ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Read more: ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II – the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina…
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Shine MSD
Read more: Shine MSDShine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to…
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Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin
Read more: Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in BerlinIt was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in…