World Urbanization Prospects, the 2009 Revision. Immersing Students in Civic Education. The Build San Francisco Institute is devoted to the architecture of building adults. VIDEO: Learning by Design: The Build San Francisco Institute's School-to-Career Program Running Time: 10 min. As they exited San Francisco's landmark Ferry Building one afternoon in December 2005, the 20 students from the Build San Francisco Institute were, to be honest, bent out of shape. These high school juniors and seniors, halfway through the yearlong design program cosponsored by the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco (AFSF) and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), had just presented their proposal to create a series of historically themed tiles for the city's newly redesigned Pier 14, a project they had been brainstorming for more than a month.
Going in, the group had been confident that their slick Microsoft PowerPoint presentation was an A+. "It's not about building little architects," says Richard Hannum, a Bay Area design-firm principal and one of the AFSF's founders.
Crowdsourced Public Art Project Captures Community Spirit Around the World - Media. Rather than waiting for people to seek out his art in museums or galleries, artist JR brings it to the streets, posting arresting black-and-white portraits of locals around the world on the walls of their neighborhoods. His goal is to give voice and representation to communities that otherwise might be obscured, like women living in Brazilian or Kenyan slums.
With his latest global art initiative, the InsideOut Project, JR is spreading his mission on a scale that was previously unimaginable, by crowdsourcing personal photos and the labor of posting them. The project was made possible by TED, which awarded JR the 2011 TED Prize, complete with a $100,000 grant to fund a world-changing project. InsideOut invites anyone in the world to participate by submitting a digital photo to its website. A printing studio in New York City will turn the image into a larger-than-life poster, and mail it back to the subject to paste on a wall in his neighborhood. Images courtesy of JR-art.net. From 'La Piazza' to 'Puente': How place, people and technology make intergenerational learning. Space and places.