Projects tagged
Food & Water
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MolleIndustria Video Games – McDonald’s
Read more: MolleIndustria Video Games – McDonald’sIn this game, you own and operate McDonald’s. You have the choice to try to operate ethically or make decisions like using genetically modified soy or administering bovine growth hormone. If you go the ethical route, you bankrupt the company…
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Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)
Read more: Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)For the launch of a new organization fighting to end the water crisis, Matt Damon, Co-founder of Water.org, has produced a video using humor to shed light on the issue of access to clean water. In the spoof, he holds…
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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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Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Read more: Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran“A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the…
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March to Close Slaughterhouses in France
Read more: March to Close Slaughterhouses in FranceBy Judy Molland If you thought that France was a nation of meat-eaters, think again. Saturday, June 2, saw a big march in Paris, as several animal rights groups came together to demand the closure of all slaughterhouses in France.…
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Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game
Read more: Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid GameFrom Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most…
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Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Read more: Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart ProjectThis is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the history and present of…