Projects tagged
Transportation
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Inside Out Project
Read more: Inside Out ProjectAfter winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…
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In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline
Read more: In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of declineDia Mrad’s people-free photographs capture the resourcefulness of the Beirut population How do you photograph a crisis that is engulfing every section of society? That was the question facing Dia Mrad when he returned to Lebanon in 2019, having spent…
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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane
Read more: Bicycle Advocacy Love Your LaneOn April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets. Bicycle advocacy had been building since the 1960s,…
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“Trading With The Enemy”: Duke Riley’s Pigeon Cuban Cigar Smugglers
Read more: “Trading With The Enemy”: Duke Riley’s Pigeon Cuban Cigar SmugglersThe smuggling of illicit cargo and people has played a significant role in shaping the culture as well as the economy of the southernmost american city of Key West since its foundation in 1821. Previous to the embargo, a myriad…
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Educational architecture: a floating school in Bangladesh
Read more: Educational architecture: a floating school in BangladeshWhat inspired you to build a school on a boat? As a native of a flood-prone community I saw first-hand the hardship of riverside communities who have restricted access to education and the opportunities it affords. With roads impassable during…
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Cloud Studies
Read more: Cloud StudiesForensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…
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Negro Matapacos
Read more: Negro MatapacosThe streets of Santiago are once again alive with the spirit of revolution. For weeks now, working-class Chileans have occupied national monuments and blocked major intersections in protest of widespread inequality. They desire full reform — a request so long…
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Read more: Bus Regulation: The Musical – The TrilogyBus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration with local…
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Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, Brazil
Read more: Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, BrazilIn the 1970s, Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, transformed six blocks of the main downtown shopping street into a pedestrian zone in 1972, despite fierce objections from the merchants. He quickly accomplished this change in just three…
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Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fare
Read more: Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fareOn the 5th of May 2021, the subway’s 12-line partially collapsed, killing 24 people and injuring more than 70. Onboard, were children, young women and men, and the elderly. The accident also killed a man and injured a woman who…