Projects tagged
Installation
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Somerville Stock Exchange
Read more: Somerville Stock Exchange“The Fine Art Of Investing” Spare Change News, October 19, 2012. Cambridge MA. It’s an interesting gamble. One of the most relevant fields of study today is Emergence Theory, the science of human cooperation. The Somerville Stock Exchange, an interactive…
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Garrido Boxing Academy
Read more: Garrido Boxing AcademyThe odd spaces exiting under bridges and viaducts around the world are often left aside, urban spatial residues mostly abandoned or occupied informally by homeless people drug users etc. The former pro boxer Nilson Garrido saw the space under the…
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Double Happiness
Read more: Double HappinessArchitect Didier Faustino strips a billboard down to its skeleton, repurposes it as a swing set, and names it Double Happiness. This “urban reactivation device” needs to become a world wide phenomenon. Imagine billboard swing sets waiting at every destination.…
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El Cerro
Read more: El CerroExcerpts from Chemi Rosado’s lecture at The Creative Time Summit 2011: “For me, there are four major aspects that this project has achieved: 1. It’s a Social Active work of art 2. The exchange of knowledge between people that normally…
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…
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Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Read more: Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran“A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the…
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Read more: Aboriginal Tent EmbassyIn the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the US, Aboriginal people were politically very active. In Sydney, Australia’s first Aboriginal legal and medical services were founded. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they lived…
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Nowhereisland
Read more: NowhereislandNowhereisland was an island which journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the south west coast of England in summer 2012. As it made this epic journey, it travelled through international waters, whereupon it became the world’s newest…
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A Gift for Amsterdam
Read more: A Gift for AmsterdamIn the summer of 2011, squatters take over an unused building, once an animal shelter, and begin renovating it into a social and cultural center for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. They call it Op de Valreep (“in…