Projects tagged
Disability
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Wired in Disability Arts
Read more: Wired in Disability ArtsSerene colors and technical set pieces create a surreal ambience as performers delicately hover into the black void above the stage. These performers belong to Kinetic Light, an “internationally-recognized disability arts ensemble”. In 2022, the ensemble performed Wired, a “potent…
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Transforming Mental Health and Feminism through Art
Read more: Transforming Mental Health and Feminism through ArtShe seeks to utilize her feminist art to spread awareness on mental health issues. Sravy is a nomad in her own right, and throughout her experiences in Asia she has noticed that there are stimas surrounding women’s autonomy and how…
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Ice Bucket Challenge
Read more: Ice Bucket ChallengeThe Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person’s head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic…
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Alzheimer’s Disease Fonts
Read more: Alzheimer’s Disease FontsOn Sept 21, 2017, the professional committee of dementia and related diseases of China geriatric health association, together with many caring enterprises, jointly launched a public welfare activity entitled “no longer forget”, hoping to call on the public to pay…
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呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
Read more: 呼吸之痛 The Pain of BreathPneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine…
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CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY
Read more: CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY“Rainer’s early choreography celebrated, among other things, ordinary movements: the expressive capacities of kneeling, of shaking your head, of rolling on the floor. And when she went through periods of sickness, those movements became an even more important part of…
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Naming the Lost Memorials
Read more: Naming the Lost MemorialsIn May 2020, a team of artists, activists, folklorists, and people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 came together to make monthly memorial sites in New York City to remember victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. They continued installing memorials around…
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Memetro
Read more: MemetroMemetro is a non-profit cultural organisation, which has developed a web application for smartphones for all people who have a transitory memory upset. The term ‘memetro’ is a merging of two concepts‘Meme’ from the Spanish expression, and the film ‘Memento’.…
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Two Hats
Read more: Two HatsRon Krielen is a social designer and a taxi driver. He spent five years driving a taxi for elderly and disabled people. En route, he would get to know them and their individual situation. He realized that this kind of…
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Destigmatization
Read more: DestigmatizationDestigmatization was made in Vrapče Psychiatric Hospital in Zagreb in collaboration with a working group consisting of mentor Dubravka Stijačić, prof. (defectologist, social pedagogue and psychotherapist who has since 1996 run an independent unit in the Vrapče Psychiatric Hospital called…