Projects tagged
Community
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BAN Protests Real Estate Summit
Read more: BAN Protests Real Estate SummitThe Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network is a grassroots movement and campaign to prevent the displacement of low-to-middle income people, elders, families and mom-and-pop businesses from Brooklyn. They say, “Not 1 more person displaced! Not 1 more luxury development, until we have…
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Play Safe
Read more: Play SafePlay Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted…
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An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway Smells
Read more: An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway SmellsThe New York City subway is many things, but clean isn’t necessarily one of them. It doesn’t exactly smell great, either. While the MTA hedges on solutions (and continues to debate whether eliminating trash cans from the stations actually solves…
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Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight Gentrification
Read more: Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight GentrificationThe People’s Republic of Stokes Croft is using street art to preserve the identity of Bristol’s most culturally diverse neighbourhood. PRSC began by opening up spaces for street art throughout the neighbourhood, providing a counterweight to the advertising images that…
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Parió Paula
Read more: Parió PaulaParió Paula is an all women’s percussion group based in Lima, Peru. These women are truly artistic renegades defying the social norms of Lima’s predominantly male music scene. With a bold message on emphasizing female expression, these ladies have transformed…
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Shift Change Dress
Read more: Shift Change DressShift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message…
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Border Crosser
Read more: Border CrosserZERO1 is thrilled to commission artist Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works(ARW) Border Crosser during the week leading up to SB50. Rising 40 feet from the ground and arching across an imaginary border before forming a bridge and touching down on the…
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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…