Projects tagged
Education
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Representing Disability in an Ablest World: Essays on Mass Media
Read more: Representing Disability in an Ablest World: Essays on Mass MediaAs an add-on to my 2010 book, Representing Disability in an Ableist World. Essays on Mass Media, I have created this online resource site. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Representing-Disability-in-an-Ableist-Wor… The book covers my 20 years of research into disability and mass media. It is…
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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Read more: Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By EarThe Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller. These were some of the first works made available to people who were blind in the 1930s, when the Library of Congress, in partnership with the American…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkI love New York. When I was younger, the city was my playground. You could find me on any given weekend catching brunch with a friend at a café, going to an East Village restaurant for dinner, and then hopping…
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AXS Lab
Read more: AXS LabPeople with disabilities often suffer a ‘civil death’ due to exclusion primarily related to physical barriers of the built environment. AXS Map is building a social movement around inclusion for people with physical disabilities. AXS Map is a crowd-sourced platform…
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Christine Sun Kim
Read more: Christine Sun KimFor artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a “ghost.” The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed…
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Kids Helping Kids
Read more: Kids Helping KidsKids Helping Kids is a youth hip-hop program run by two NGOs, Hip Hip Saves Lives and Negusworld. Together, these organizations work with middle school and high school students to make conscious hip hop influenced by activist work happening worldwide.…
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Santuario Virgen del Rosario
Read more: Santuario Virgen del RosarioIn 2009, clergy from El Oratorio Don Bosco in Italy moved to Polloc, a remote town in Peru near Cajamarca, and began to build a mid-sized cathedral. In conjunction to the construction, they opened up a workshop next to the…
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Film projects for youngsters from the Neighborhood El Carmel in Barcelona
Read more: Film projects for youngsters from the Neighborhood El Carmel in BarcelonaThis project was made by the foundation Obra Social la Caixa with the intention to change the conversation and strategies while working with youngsters. Before this initiative, say the Director Claudio Zulian, the foundation would speak only about the lives…
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#Hokkolorob
Read more: #HokkolorobHok Kolorob. Let there be noise. It was perhaps these two words of protest that eventually led to the arrest of two engineering students for allegedly molesting a fellow student at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University last month. Conjured up in a…
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Find the Future
Read more: Find the FutureFind the Future: The Game is a pioneering, interactive experience created especially for NYPL’s Centennial by famed game designer Jane McGonigal, with Natron Baxter and Playmatics. Through a once-in-a-lifetime, overnight adventure played inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, and an…