Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch day
Read more: Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch dayApple implemented improved reservation procedures and policies for employees dealing with the iPhone 6 launch at retail stores on September 19th, 2014, but the launch at the company’s Hong Kong store hadn’t gone quite as smooth as elsewhere. The store…
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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim
Read more: May Day Occupation at GuggenheimAt noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s…
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The Teddy Bear Catapult
Read more: The Teddy Bear CatapultIt was a classic summit protest at the height of the anti-globalization movement. Thirty-four heads of state from across the Americas were gathering in Québec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a sweeping trade deal…
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Sambhaji Bhagat: Voice of Dissent
Read more: Sambhaji Bhagat: Voice of DissentThe Voice of Dissent “I am not here to entertain you; I am here to disturb you. Those who are here for entertainment, I request them, please go.” It’s unusual, if not rare, for a live performer to begin by…
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Faiz
Read more: FaizFaiz | Hum Dekhenge | BolFaiz Ahmed Faiz, born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984, was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most regarded poets of the Urdu language, being considered four times for the Nobel Prize in poetry. A notable member of the Progressive…
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Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governing
Read more: Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governingIn 1995, Bogota was a chaotic city. Among others, it presented high ranges of homicides, delinquency, corruption, no sense of belonging, traffic chaos and financial problems. People were desperate and they were ready to accept any alternative to a change…
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Yellow pigs
Read more: Yellow pigsIn February , two leaders of a guerrilla movement here traveled to the financial district carrying a wooden container that contained three pigs, each painted yellow from snout to tail. At a traffic light, the men unloaded the pigs into…
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Vacated
Read more: VacatedVacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO dataset, and it leverages…
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“The Garment Worker” An Interactive Media Installation for Community Dialogue
Read more: “The Garment Worker” An Interactive Media Installation for Community Dialogue“The Garment Worker” an interactive installation piece that focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships she/he encounters working in a sweatshop. The installation in Kang Wei Laundromat simulated the sounds, motions and experiences of a…
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#SaveNYC
Read more: #SaveNYC#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores…