Projects tagged
Education
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Under the Influence
Read more: Under the InfluenceArtist Bryan Lewis Saunders took it upon himself to draw a self portrait every time he took a psychoactive substance. These ranged from zoloft to morphine to marijuana and it is an amazing subjective experience to witness. We can almost…
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NYC Street Art Map
Read more: NYC Street Art MapHuffington Post put together a digital, interactive map of some of the so-called best and brightest street art collections. Street art is important because it allows artists, usually from the community where the street art is taking place, to interact…
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Social Media powered car
Read more: Social Media powered carIt took 17 high schoolers, eight mentors from Kansas City and a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to create the first ever social media powered car. The concept was to bring MINDDRIVE to life with tweets, posts, shares and likes which…
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Horas por la educación, Hours for education
Read more: Horas por la educación, Hours for educationChilean students ran for 1,800 consecutive hours around Chile’s presidential palace, La Moneda, from June 13 to August 27, 2011 to protest the cost of education. The 1,800 hours stand for the 1,800,000,000 Chilean pesos, or approximately US$4 million which…
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Thriller Protest
Read more: Thriller ProtestThe following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: “Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher…
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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Read more: Protest Posters for Fees Must FallDaniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…
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Hamilton
Read more: Hamilton‘‘HAMILTON,’’ the new musical biography of Alexander Hamilton created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, kicks off with a doozy of a question. The houselights rise on Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States and, infamously, the killer…
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Waterpod Project
Read more: Waterpod ProjectWaterpod™ was a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides. It launched in the summer of 2009, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, and docked at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River…
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Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists
Read more: Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activistsTwo weeks ago, the University released the final version of its diversity and inclusion action plan, which could not have been compiled without the exhaustive efforts of students throughout last semester. “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes…
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Rhodes Must Fall
Read more: Rhodes Must FallThis series of protests began on the UCT campus in an effort to remove the bronze statute of Cecil Rhodes in the center of campus due to the belief that Rhodes represents the oppressive colonization of South Africa that eventually…