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Fuck The Poor Charity Campaign – Creating Engagement In A Crowded Market With A Disinterested Public

Date:
Apr 7 2014

“Small charities of today are in threat. Charitable donations are down. Fewer people are donating. Those that do donate are giving less. Whilst bigger charities are better equipped to deal with this flux (with money to spend on large advertising…

Chalk it up Day with Bubbles at NYU

Date:
Apr 7 2014

Last Friday, on May 2nd of 2014, a group called The Student Debt Resistance @NYU hosted its first public engagement at Washington Square Park. The co-creators coined this event Chalk Day. The goal of this special day was to raise…

Take A Closer Look

Practitioner:
Bellefaire JCB

Date:
Apr 7 2014

Bellefaire JCB, an organization that provides care, education, and advocacy to better the emotional, physical and intellectual well-being of children, young adults and families has launched Take A Closer Look, a campaign which aims to raise public awareness about the…

Heidelberg Project

Practitioner:
Tyree Guyton

Date:
Apr 7 2014

The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan. It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey (“Grandpa Sam”) as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city’s east…

Make Them Visible

Practitioner:
New York City Rescue Mission, Silver+Partners, Smuggler

Date:
Apr 7 2014

If a family member posed as a homeless person, would you recognize him or her? That’s the question a new campaign — Make Them Visible — is asking. In a video produced by ad agency Silver + Partners and Smuggler…

In Brazzaville, Fashionistas Lift Spirits With Apparel And Activism

Practitioner:
La Sape

Date:
Apr 7 2014

When can fashion be considered an act of social activism — even subversion? The streets of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo’s capital (Congo-Brazzaville), have seen plenty of violence and suffering over the years. But a group of local fashionistas known…

Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation

Practitioner:
MTL

Date:
Apr 7 2014

From creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL’s clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine’s geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into “how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere” according to philosopher Michael Hardt. About MTL:…

Female students in Guangzhou protest topless for gender equality

Practitioner:
Female students from the Guangdong University of Technology

Date:
Apr 7 2014

Female students from the Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou called for equal job opportunities and for people to “pay attention to the value of women” while protesting on the school’s campus, shirtless and covered in body paint. The photos,…

Occu-bot

Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi

Date:
Apr 7 2014

Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters. Management-bot, also known as the Financier, is a walking robot that accompanies the Occu-bot. It is made of two stepper motors…

paraSITE

Practitioner:
Michael Rakowitz

Date:
Apr 7 2014

ParaSITE: Custom built inflatable shelters designed for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building’s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The warm air leaving the building simultaneously inflates and heats the double membrane structure.…