Projects tagged
Transportation
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Pothole Activism
Read more: Pothole ActivismBaadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore. When people’s complaint to civic authorities about the state of…
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For Warmth
Read more: For WarmthThich Nhat Hanh reads his poem “For Warmth” in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode “Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism.” Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country…
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Project Easy Access Lexington
Read more: Project Easy Access LexingtonSpearheaded by Latitude Artist Community, Project Easy Access Lexington (PEAL) organized team ‘Bricksquad’ to help make the sidewalks and streets of downtown Lexington, KY more wheelchair accessible. Armed with only a canvas bag of few bricks, sand, and some tools…
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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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Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them Fixed
Read more: Mystery Artist Paints Penises Around Potholes To Get Them FixedArmed with a can of washable spray paint, an artist in Greater Manchester, England, has embarked on a worthy crusade: to rid the region of potholes… by drawing penises on them. The anonymous artist, who goes by the name “Wanksy,”…
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Bogota smiles: canned Sardines
Read more: Bogota smiles: canned SardinesA Colombian college student created this idea to improve Bogotas citizens experience when using the public transportation. According to one scientific study, the worst problem Bogota citizens had to deal within the public space was public transportation; this problem represented…
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Google Bus
Read more: Google BusA group of protesters calling themselves the “Gmuni dancers” block a Google Bus from moving on 24th Street at Valencia Street on Tuesday April 1, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. In late 2013, San Francisco Bay Area activists with Heart…
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Street Art Critiques Car Culture
Read more: Street Art Critiques Car CultureIn 2001, Peter Gibson, a street artist, began by painting bike additional bike lanes onto the streets in Montreal because he was tired of how cars dominated the road. This transferred into more works criticizing car culture in general. Some…
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Gumby for President
Read more: Gumby for PresidentIn the 2012 presidential election, did you know that one of the underdog anti-party runners was Gumby?! In the attached video, you will hear Gumby offer transportation alternatives (Pokey and friends), challenges of not believing in vice presidents, and the…
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Pedestrian Critical Mass
Read more: Pedestrian Critical MassINVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela We invite you to walk for a human Caracas where car driver and motorized respect pedestrian. Enough of…