Projects tagged
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Immortal Fans
Read more: Immortal FansFrom this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27632527 A campaign by one of Brazil’s biggest football clubs to encourage fans to become organ donors has led to a massive rise in the number of life-changing transplants and reduced waiting lists for organs in the…
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Perigives
Read more: PerigivesThe public bathrooms at Penn Station in New York City are a dirty, depressing place. But now, there’s a bright spot: a poster that encourages women to donate menstrual products, like pads or tampon, to help the many homeless women…
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The Subtle Muckrakers of the Coronavirus Epidemic
Read more: The Subtle Muckrakers of the Coronavirus EpidemicThe outbreak of the coronavirus has brought international scrutiny down on China’s political system. Again. A few commentators have applauded the efficiency of the Chinese Communist Party’s response, but most have zoomed in on its weaknesses. Some have even blamed…
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COUNTERSPACE
Read more: COUNTERSPACECounterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired…
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ACT UP protests
Read more: ACT UP protestsIn 1987 with AIDS deaths in the thousands and government policy still criminally indifferent, activists formed ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) with the purpose of turning grief and fear into rage and action. Over the next decade, rage…
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Home Improvement Service
Read more: Home Improvement ServiceIn 2011 a protest movement started in Israel. Citizens expressed their demand for a fair distribution of resources, claiming for the lack of housing and maintenance of the buildings and apartments, due to the privatized housing schemes. In these instances…
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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…
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Abortion rights and Body Vulnerability
Read more: Abortion rights and Body VulnerabilityThe rise in feminism and feminist advocacy has changed history forever in terms of how women are viewed and treated in society. Though great progress has been made, women are still fighting for their rights even today. Abortion and body…
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Read more: Art, Activism and the Age of AIDSDavid Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action Not all art is political and by no means are politics art. However, through Wojnarowicz’s works criticizing and critiquing the US government, he was able to successfully blend art and politics to…