Projects tagged
Digital & Technology
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Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Read more: Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New YorkIt may have been a while since you’ve set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in…
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Small World Machines
Read more: Small World MachinesA new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, “Small World Machines,” starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: “Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more…
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Activists rallied at dozens of Apple Stores worldwide
Read more: Activists rallied at dozens of Apple Stores worldwideIf you are in favor of Apple’s staunch resistance to the government, you may be interested to join a rally on Tuesday, February 23 at 5:30pm local time at an Apple Store near you. Last Tuesday, Fight for the Future,…
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Abortion Drone; first flight to Poland
Read more: Abortion Drone; first flight to PolandOn Saturday June 27 th the Abortion drone flies for the first time packages of abortion pills from Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany to Słubice in Poland. The campaign is a collaboration between Women on Waves; Cocia Basia, a…
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La Colifata
Read more: La ColifataMore than 20 years ago, a psychology student doing his training at one of Argentina’s oldest psychiatric wards kept being asked by his family and friends what it was like to work in there. So he came up with an…
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#FreeNicoll
Read more: #FreeNicollNicoll Hernandez-Polanco, a Guatamalen transgender woman, came to the United States in October 2014 after surviving hate based harassment and violence in her home country. When she presented her case to the border patrol she was detained by Immigration and…
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Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in Kodaikanal
Read more: Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in KodaikanalGlobal corporation Unilever dumped toxic and contaminated waste behind its thermometer factory located in Kodaikanal, a city in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In 2001, once word spread about this breach in environmental precautions, Unilever closed its factory. However,…
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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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#BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?
Read more: #BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?Michelle Obama tweeted her own portrait holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls and soon countless celebrities echoed this meme online. Throughout a week, this trending hashtag had been turned into a social-media supernova. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign spurred by online sharing brought…
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Smog Ring – Pollution Transformed into Art
Read more: Smog Ring – Pollution Transformed into Art“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of…