Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottles
Read more: Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottlesAll those who practice surfing know firsthand the serious problem our beaches face: pollution. While some only complain, others do something about it. Two Brazilian surfers decided they could help raise public awareness of the need to protect nature of…
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Grandmas resignifying public space
Read more: Grandmas resignifying public spaceThis project consisted of an articulation between research, public policy and art. Corpovisionarios por Colombia was implementing a social change initiative in one of the poorest and most violents neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. The demographic information showed that the most…
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“I’m Here: A Chilean initiative that makes visible street dogs
Read more: “I’m Here: A Chilean initiative that makes visible street dogsThis is one of the noblest urban interventions I’ve seen lately. Two girls who go to a subway station in Santiago, Chile with lots of colorful balloons with helium. In the balloons write messages like “touch me”, “hold me”, “adopt…
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Acting Lessons
Read more: Acting LessonsThe New Life Foundation is a Colombian organization located in Bogota, whose aim consists of offering vulnerable women alternatives to quit prostitution and rehabilitate from its surrounding dangers (crime, drug addiction, AIDS, etc.) One of its remarkable projects was based…
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Blind Ones
Read more: Blind OnesStudents from the School of Communication and Art of the University of Sao Paulo perform a skit titled ‘Blind Ones’ as a protest against consumerism inside a shopping mall of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, December 9,…
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Toy Soldiers
Read more: Toy SoldiersStudents of the Experimental Art University dress as plastic soldiers in a protest at a metro station in Caracas, Venezuela External sources: http://guff.com/some-of-the-most-clever-approaches-to-protesting/protest-until-y… http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article4061384.ece
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Erasing the Police
Read more: Erasing the PoliceThousands of students have protested in the Colombian capital, Bogota, and other cities against government plans to reform higher education. The demonstrations were mainly peaceful but Bogota police fired tear gas and used water cannon after some people threw stones,…
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The Bread Tank
Read more: The Bread TankAt Rio+20 we present a bread tank with a garden inside to underline the realistic possibility of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty by redirecting military spending. In 2011 global military spending amounted to $1.74 trillion – despite the fact that…
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USAID’s Cuba hip-hop project
Read more: USAID’s Cuba hip-hop projectHAVANA (AP) — A U.S. agency’s secret infiltration of Cuba’s underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was “reckless” and “stupid,” Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after The Associated Press revealed the operation. On at least…
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Ausencias
Read more: Ausencias“On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition “Ausencias” (Absences). Born in 1964…