Projects tagged
Health
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The Art of Heroin Bags
Read more: The Art of Heroin BagsHeroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique “stamp” on said baggie sold to a user. Used for branding purposes,…
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Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Read more: Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main…
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An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway Smells
Read more: An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway SmellsThe New York City subway is many things, but clean isn’t necessarily one of them. It doesn’t exactly smell great, either. While the MTA hedges on solutions (and continues to debate whether eliminating trash cans from the stations actually solves…
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“The Body Of Water”
Read more: “The Body Of Water”In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city’s 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only…
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China’s Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing’s Smog into Bricks
Read more: China’s Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing’s Smog into BricksBeijing and the rest of cities in northern China suffer from years of smog pollution.The beige-gray miasma of smog brings coughs and rasping. Hospitals are crowded from respiratory ailments and a midday sky is so dim. But “Brother Nut(坚果兄弟)“, a…
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The Public Market Token Program
Read more: The Public Market Token ProgramThrough the Market Token program, wooden tokens are used as market currency, making it possible for customers with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food-stamp benefits to get fresh, healthy, affordable foods at the Market. Customers stop at the Market office…
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You’d Better Watch Your Step In Madrid
Read more: You’d Better Watch Your Step In MadridLuzinterruptus turns their art activism towards the overabundance of dog doo littering the city’s streets. The studio inflated 500 poop-scoopin’ plastic bags and placed a lightbulb inside each one. Installation lasted nine hours. External sources: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/madrids-dog-poop-problem-inspires-led-ar…
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Action Man! Battlefied Casualties
Read more: Action Man! Battlefied CasualtiesA commercial for action figures, after the action. Working towards a campaign to raise the age of recruitment in the UK. Action Man: Battlefield Casualties from Veterans For Peace UK on Vimeo. BattlefieldCasualties.co.uk A Veterans for Peace UK film, directed…
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AIDS Awareness Ribbon
Read more: AIDS Awareness RibbonFrom 99 Percent Invisible: By the late 1980s, AIDS had been in the United States for almost a decade. AIDS became the number one killer of young men in New York City, then of young men in the country, then…
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My Model Body
Read more: My Model BodyThe humorously critical project offered people an opportunity to compare themselves to the supermodel silhouette: face to face in the imaginary impression of a mirror, or at real physical scale. The idea was born out of a serious concern with…