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Prison. Music and Memory broadcast. Home Media for social change Advanced search Close I forgot my password Audio Music and Memory broadcast Music and Memory broadcast Contributed by Caroline Kunzle I like this! Share Creator: Caroline Kunzle Length: 120:54 License: All Rights Reserved Year of Production: 2010 As was asked at the top of the show: "What do you get when you gather a Rwandan, a Congolese, a Palestinian, a St. In a collaboration between Life Stories Montreal and CKUT Radio, and between the Experiences of Refugee Youth working group and Radio Works!
Topics: Immigration Dossiers: Life Stories: Displaced By War, Genocide and Violence Keywords: Congo , ethiopia , immigration , memory , music , Palestine , peace , refugee , religion , rwanda , song , St Lucia , story , youth , Zimbabwe 3061 reads 47 plays Comments Post new comment The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. More information about formatting options. Red Swing Project Documentary. Rebel:art " Blog Archive " Mobmov: Guerrilla Drive-in.
Street artist global participation. A global participatory art project is now underway, following the revelation of the TED Prize winner’s “wish to change the world,” which was announced Wednesday night in Long Beach, California. The winner is known simply as JR. Using the website InsideOutProject.net, people are encouraged to submit black and white portraits, which are then turned into posters and sent back to them to be displayed in their communities. The idea is to extend what the prize winner — in this case, JR — has been doing in places ranging from Kenya to Palestine, to other parts of the world.
Beyond submitting portraits, the TED audience was encouraged to participate in other ways, such as by donating wall space or other resources. In one of the more memorable moments of the conference thus far, at the end of JR’s talk, nearly a dozen attendees immediately got up to make pledges, including a Googler who indicated an interest in making sure art from the project is integrated in Google Street View and Google Earth. 1MinuteToSaveTheWorld. Rebel:art » Blog Archive » Partizipative Stadtplanung: “Give a Minute” Rebel:art » Blog Archive » The Hacking Monopolism Trilogie: Face to Facebook. Face to Facebook, der dritte Teil der The Hacking Monopolism Trilogie von Paolo Cirio und Alessandro Ludovico, thematisiert Fragen zur Privatsphäre in Online-Kontexten anhand der Ikone aller Plattformen: Facebook.
In Anlehnung an das Prinzip Facebook haben die Künstler eine Singlebörse gebaut, in die sie mittels einer speziellen Software aus einer Million Facebook-Profilen 250.000 solcher Profile importiert haben. Mit einem neu entwickelten Gesichtserkennungsalgorithmus haben sie die Profile dann – wie als einen ironischen Kommentar zu den Urteilen, die wir täglich über Leute fällen, die wir aus der Ferne betrachten – je nach Gesichtsausdruck und Eigenschaften in Kategorien eingeordnet. * The Social Experiment: In the subsequent days the media performance continued at a very fast pace and what we still define as a “social experiment” was actually quite successful. Commercial dating website partnership proposals: 4 Other partnership proposals: 9 Anonymous email death threat: 5. Rebel:art » Blog Archive » Press the button project.
In the Classroom, Students Use Design to Solve Real-World Problems - Design. Most students have little awareness of design as its inclusion in school curricula is all too rare. To remedy that, Worldstudio and Adobe partnered to created Design Ignites Change, a program that encourages high school and college students to use design thinking and innovation to develop projects benefiting their own communities.
In just two years of existence, the program has worked with more than 1,500 students (and counting) to explore everyday challenges from tolerance to traffic. This week, Design Ignites Change announced the winners of its 2010 Implementation Awards. Recipients tackled a breadth of complex issues including immigration reform, childhood obesity, empowering the homeless, and the obstacles faced by those afflicted with autism. First Person American, a project by School of Visual Arts graduate Irina Lee, aims to document the modern immigrant experience with an interactive website that allows people to share their personal stories.
FutureLabCamp April 2011 | Beyond The Beyond. FutureLabCamp is a weekend hackathon (fri-sun) taking place in NYC (or Boston?) This April. A weekend celebrating the exchange of biologists, artists, engineers and designers. Join our lecture series and participate in a three day hackathon and camp-out at our venue. We will develop imaginative make/shift devices and prototypes interacting with biological systems to investigate the future of biotechnologies. what? We’re bringing together hardware hackers, artists, garage biologists, forward-thinking researchers, and other makers together for an amazingly productive weekend. How? When you arrive on Friday, you’ll team up with some of the other diverse participants to brainstorm and pick an idea to work on during the hackathon. Parody Tourism Videos Tell Serious Truths About Cities - Cities.
In 2009 you may have seen this "hastily-made" tourism video for Cleveland as it made the internet rounds. This very funny and very obviously satirical look at the city's shortcomings by Mike Polk features lyrical gems like "come and look at both of our buildings" and "this train is carrying jobs out of Cleveland" over dismal footage of the city's downtown. Polk followed this up with "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video: 2nd Attempt" in which he lobs more zingers like "under construction since 1868" and "at least we're not Detroit.
" Shortly after the videos came out, they had caused such a stir that Positively Cleveland launched its own contest for a more "positive" tourism video. Maybe they were positive, but they weren't funny. Since these were first posted over a year ago, the "hastily-made tourism video" has become a meme, with hastily-made videos for Detroit, Boston, Orlando, St. Too Big to Love: IPAM’s Citizen’s Agora and the Challenge of Regional Planning. All day yesterday, I looked at this map. For their first Citizen’s Agora, the Institut de politiques alternatives de Montréal went big: they chose the entire Metropolitain area for a spin in the think-tank.
The timing is right: Bill 58 mandated the Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) to draft a regional plan by the end of 2011. The agora aimed to produce some concrete recommendations. In one presentation after another, the map was used to describe trends in density, transit, greenspace. But the map is not the territory. I once went to a rave at the Cosmodome in Laval; I once watched a movie at Sainte-Eustache’s drive-in, but overall, the CMM’s territory remains mysterious to me.
The Boston Metro Experience And yet regional planning is of the essence, as one of the opening panelists, Timothy G Reardon from Boston’s Metro Future, highlighted. “Local issues are rooted in regional trends and local decisions have regional impacts,” said Reardon. So metro planning is our responsibility? Dear Copenhagen... Dear Copenhagen... Posted by Sebastian on Dec 01, 2010 Dear Copenhagen is a micro-political web-platform that allows users to leave text messages to the City of Copenhagen.
Messages are created on virtual post-it notes in different colors according to topic. By default, they all begin with "Kære København" (Dear Copenhagen) and users have 250 characters to express themselves. Judging from the current top-30 list of most liked messages, Copenhageners are primarily concerned with traffic issues (yellow notes) closely followed by cultural issues (turquoise notes). Dear Copenhagen is a private initiative created by three designers. . • www.kærekbh.dk. Power House Detroit: Artists as Community Leaders.
Local Projects. Thrilling Wonder Stories II. Groundcrew Tour. Blog » Imagine Greater Tucson. People of Tuscon have an opportunity to make their voices heard. Imagine Greater Tucson is a community-based effort designed to “create a shared vision and clear action for the Tucson Region that will make our community a vibrant and healthy place to live, work, learn, and play for current and future generations of all ages.” Based on successful models from other cities in the United States and Canada, the Imagine Greater Tucson interactive campaign begins with a five-minute survey. Take the survey to express likes, make suggestions for change, or find ways to become involved in the community. This is the Imagine Greater Tucson timeline: Share your vision. Spread the word. The future is yours to create. Making a Playful City. Posted by Justin on Saturday, October 30, 2010 · 4 Comments Dispatchwork by Jan Vormann What would it take to make a city more playful?
Everyone has had an experience at one time or another of encountering something strange, out of the ordinary, a seemingly serendipitous moment in a space that in turn transforms your experience and understanding of that location. Urban interventions often aim to do just that — to shift one’s experience of a city street or infrastructure to offer a new perspective, a proposed alternate use, or to reveal complexities and power structures that are often embedded in everyday life. Interventions make a city more playful by suggesting a sense possibility, by hinting at the potential to experience place in a different way than we normally do. ‘Rotemartha’ is a recent site specific installation by german artist martin pfeifle which was installaed in the former imperial abbey of aachen-kornelimünster.
Via designboom. Images For A New Activism: The Posters of Green Patriotism. Posted by Stephen on Thursday, October 28, 2010 · 2 Comments During World War II the United States was able to mobilize industry and motivate its citizens in breathtaking speed. Factories were overhauled and consumption habits transformed. Strong, graphically compelling posters played a crucial role in the success of this campaign.These posters presented the actions of individual citizens as vital for the nation and portrayed those who took part as attractive, dynamic American heroes.Today a similar mobilization is required to address the crisis of global climate change and achieve energy independence. That’s why The Canary Project and its partners have launched Green Patriot Posters.Green Patriot Posters is a communications campaign centered on posters that encourage all U.S. citizens to build a sustainable economy.
-GreenPatriotPosters.org This quote is taken from the About section of the group Green Patriot Posters. Americans have a great ability to pull together in times of crisis. Peculiar Places Exhibition. Hosted by Tickle (Taylor Cullity Lethlean’s subsidiary for design research , discourse, and collaboration), The Peculiar Places call for submissions and subsequent exhibition was initiated out of a “desire to shun design trends towards global conformity in public places” by asking participants to explore and document their city’s most unique and peculiar places in order to share them internationally. The exhibition is on display at the Peculiar Places Blog where, amongst other things, you can explore Melbourne’s underground toilets and peripheral landfills, the longest straight road, the largest open-pit gold mine, a solid, carved sandstone highway on-ramp, Gunkanjima Island, Amsterdam’s program-rich canals, and perhaps our favorite (because the imagery effectively made us want to go there), Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport.
F.A.D. contributed a piece for the Peculiar Places exhibition called An Edible Fix, documenting the expanding system of food carts in Portland Oregon. Like this: What is One Day on Earth? Government by the People: The Importance of Public Engagement. The Constitution says, 'We the people...' not 'The government and the citizens...' Boundaries don’t matter. " Image by opensourceway. According to a recent report from the National League of Cities, 75% of American cities report an overall worsening of economic conditions and 68% have shelved or canceled capital projects.
Cities are hurting and officials are asking “What to do?” Look to the citizens. Hard times are opportune times to engage citizens and welcome the growing desire of the public to be heard and participate in civic government. The Government is Not a Vending Machine Traditionally, some citizens have had the mindset of putting taxes into the government “machine” with the expectation of services coming out. “Where Can I Help?” “On creating SeeClickFix I assumed we would just whine to our government and stuff would get fix. Success Stories If these are just baby steps, they’re having big impact.
Biodiversity 100: An International Campaign is Launched. This week conservation ecologist Guillaume Chapron and journalist George Monbiot launched Biodiversity 100, an international campaign to get those responsible in G20 countries (countries rich enough to take substantial action) to sign up to very specific pledges to protect our top 100 species or ecosystems that are falling by the political wayside. The Guardian is hosting the campaign website. You can find the launch article there. In it Chapron and Monbiot describe the plight of the Pyrenean bear and the political reasons why more isn't being done to protect them, even though they are on the brink of extinction.
They use the Pyrenean bears' plight as one example of how international agreements have failed to protect biodiversity; additionally, the bears' story serves as a catalyst for their new campaign: The international agreements struck so far have failed miserably in halting the world's biodiversity crisis. More on biodiversity in the Worldchanging archives: Mapping the Future of Cities & Education. The following is a guest post from Mark Belinsky of Digital Democracy. What does real-time mapping with New York City public school kids look like?
Recently, Digital Democracy was invited to work with 120 young people from all 5 boroughs as part of the Department of Education’s “Future Now” program. Having gone through the NY Public School system myself, I jumped at the opportunity to help them innovate. My task was to engage the kids in a conversation about what they’d like to see in the year 2020.
Future Now is creating NYC’s Digital Storybook – a citywide youth project about school, community, and dreams. What better way to explore these themes than a mapping exercise to literally add and remove items in their communities and on their streets? To give the kids a real-life example of the changes that are happening in their community, we built a modified Ushahidi map with data overlays from the NYC Data Mine and Recovery.gov. The biggest problem I ran into was spell-check. CrisisCommons. Truthsquad Shows Potential of Crowdsourced Fact-Checking. List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples - Best practices. Cyber Dissidents: How the Internet is Changing Dissent - Episodes.
Frameworks for Citizen Responsiveness: Towards a Read/Write Urbanism. MySociety. 6 alternative summits you can attend (since you’re not invited to the G20) : This Magazine Blog // Canadian progressive politics, environment, art, culture // Subscribe today. Café « StickyWorld. Eric Squair’s blog » Tools for online advocacy – workshop and hackathon. Cultural Citizenship and the Creation of European Identity. Citizenship as a learning process - Gerard Delanty Disciplinary citizenship versus cultural citizenship. CIRCLE - A nonpartisan research center studying youth civic engagement and civic education. » CIRCLE’s MISSION. Q&A: Motivating Middle Schoolers Around Climate Action - GOOD Blog. How Scott Brown Did It (Or Why 2010 Is No 2008) - Politics.