Creative tactics that help bring about change

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Digital & Technology

  • The Great Game

    The Great Game
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    Oct 16 2001

    The Great Game is a Java applet consisting of a realtime 3d terrain map of the Afghanistan region, depicting munitions, aircraft, targets, and troop movements for each day of the conflict. The Artist culls by hand the daily data from…

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  • Miles Morales

    Miles Morales
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    Oct 16 2001

    From The Huffington Post: In his lyrics under the rap pseudonym Childish Gambino, Donald Glover proposed, “I’ll be your hero – Donald for Spider-Man.” It might have sounded innocuous to the uninitiated ear – just another hip-hop boast among many…

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  • Not Photoshopped

    Not Photoshopped
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    Oct 16 2001

    From StyleCaster: The debate over body image seems like an uphill battle in the fashion industry. The industry seems as if it’s trying to change things by creating guidelines and rules for models and fashion shows, but it doesn’t look…

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  • It Was Never A Dress

    It Was Never A Dress
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    Oct 16 2001

    From Time Magazine: It’s not a dress—it’s a cape We’ve all seen the woman in the triangle dress that marks women’s bathrooms. But what if that triangle silhouette isn’t really a dress? That’s the idea of the new campaign called…

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  • The Colors Mountain

    The Colors Mountain
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    Oct 16 2001

    The Colors Mountain is a collective intervention project that uses a virtual space dedicated to the observation and investigation of alleged ecological crimes , with the goal of using the concept of “reasonable doubt”, not only for possible court acquittal…

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  • Take a Photo, Save a Child

    Take a Photo, Save a Child
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    Oct 16 2001

    On January 17, 2011, Hong Yuping (洪玉萍), from Fujian Province, contacted Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), about her family’s plight and requested assistance: In June 2009, their son, Yang Weixin (杨伟鑫), then age six,…

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  • Design4Peace

    Design4Peace
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    Oct 16 2001

    Design4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and…

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  • Abandoned Love

    Abandoned Love
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    Oct 16 2001

    Utilizing Tumblr, Peyton Fulford crafted Abandoned Love as a participatory art project with other users on Tumblr’s social network. Asking her followers “to send phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own…

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  • Domestic Tension

    Domestic Tension
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    Oct 16 2001

    Wafaa Bilal’s childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to…

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  • Pam Geller Wanted Us to Draw Muhammad. So We Did. #DM2015

    Pam Geller Wanted Us to Draw Muhammad. So We Did. #DM2015
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    Oct 16 2001

    Pam Geller doesn’t know much about Islam or Muslims, that much is clear. What she does know, however, is how to rally the troops to incite racism. From funding Islamophobic bus ads to maximizing offensive Muslim stereotypes, it’s clear that…

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