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public space
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Groups Build Parks From Parking Spaces
Read more: Groups Build Parks From Parking SpacesOriginally a project of San Francisco-based art and design studio Rebar, Park(ing) Day participants from Tucson to Tehran set up temporary installations ranging from simple unrolled sod to art galleries and even free health clinics. “In urban centers around the…
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The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Read more: The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discriminationDisabled people gathered to protest at the site where a memorial to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 is being built. We are keen to have a memorial to Peterloo, but we want one we can be proud of, rather than…
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Making Fun
Read more: Making FunOh, the lack of humanity! We’re defined by our commute. Home to work, work to home, rinse and repeat. We can blame the inundation of ugly mass advertising or distracting technology for society’s decline into autopilot, but modern culture is…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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The Last Billboard
Read more: The Last BillboardThe Last Billboard is a 36-foot art installation located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created in 2013, it features a steel frame and removable wooden letters that must be arranged by hand. Each month a different artist, activist or individual is invited…
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The Tourist Lane
Read more: The Tourist LaneThe Improv Everywhere team created separate walking lanes for tourists and New Yorkers on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk. Department of Transportation “employees” were on hand to enforce the new rules and ask pedestrians for their feedback on the initiative. Enjoy…
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What I Couldn’t Say In Public
Read more: What I Couldn’t Say In Public“What I Couldn’t Say in Public” transforms individual secrets into a public, anonymous spectacle. While origins and exact location of the “What I Couldn’t Say in Public” project are unknown, awareness about the project has grown over the micro-blogging platform…
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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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Commemorating the Marikana Massacre
Read more: Commemorating the Marikana MassacreOn August 14th 2014 several prominent statues within the city centre and the southern suburbs of Cape Town got redressed in green blankets, equipped with miner gear or carrying grocery bags. The statues – mainly of which represent colonial figures…
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The Monument Quilt
Read more: The Monument QuiltThe Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories of survivors of rape and abuse. By stitching our stories together, we are creating and demanding public space to heal. We are building a new culture where survivors are publicly supported…