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Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro Valle
Read more: Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro ValleIn 2009, conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demoted the publicly-funded Italian Theatre Insitute (or ETI) to “disposable” status, hacking funding for the arts considerably. ETI promoted Italian companies abroad, managed the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Duse theatre in…
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Free Hugs Campaign
Read more: Free Hugs CampaignThe Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places.The hugs are meant to be random acts of kindness – selfless acts performed just to make others feel better. International Free Hugs…
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Run #4AllCauses
Read more: Run #4AllCauses“Lincoln Square — The runners tossed blankets, gloves, jackets and other gear onto the pile, each leaving a piece of where they came from. A French man donated his running shirt and pants, and noted that they were designer wear.…
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Somerville Stock Exchange
Read more: Somerville Stock Exchange“The Fine Art Of Investing” Spare Change News, October 19, 2012. Cambridge MA. It’s an interesting gamble. One of the most relevant fields of study today is Emergence Theory, the science of human cooperation. The Somerville Stock Exchange, an interactive…
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Garrido Boxing Academy
Read more: Garrido Boxing AcademyThe odd spaces exiting under bridges and viaducts around the world are often left aside, urban spatial residues mostly abandoned or occupied informally by homeless people drug users etc. The former pro boxer Nilson Garrido saw the space under the…
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Double Happiness
Read more: Double HappinessArchitect Didier Faustino strips a billboard down to its skeleton, repurposes it as a swing set, and names it Double Happiness. This “urban reactivation device” needs to become a world wide phenomenon. Imagine billboard swing sets waiting at every destination.…
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El Cerro
Read more: El CerroExcerpts from Chemi Rosado’s lecture at The Creative Time Summit 2011: “For me, there are four major aspects that this project has achieved: 1. It’s a Social Active work of art 2. The exchange of knowledge between people that normally…
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Public Fruit Jam
Read more: Public Fruit Jam“Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind…
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Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism
Read more: Invincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop ActivismInvincible: Detroit’s Homegrown, Hip-Hop Activism: Powerful, passionate, and politically charged rhymes that speak for marginalized people. by Shannan Stoll Ilana Weaver started listening to hip hop when she was seven, after her family moved from Israel to Ann Arbor, Mich.…
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Claiming Territory with Ink_ a street calligraphy graffiti artist in Hong Kong
Read more: Claiming Territory with Ink_ a street calligraphy graffiti artist in Hong KongA toothless garbageman who once wandered Hong Kong’s streets with dingy bags of ink and brushes tied to his crutches is now the subject of a major retrospective. About 300 calligraphic works by the late Tsang Tsou-choi — who is…