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When I Walk
Practitioner:
Jason DaSilva
Date:
Mar 6 2013
I love New York. When I was younger, the city was my playground. You could find me on any given weekend catching brunch with a friend at a café, going to an East Village restaurant for dinner, and then hopping the subway, headed to a nightclub in Chelsea. But at age 25, nine years ago, I was told I had multiple sclerosis, and I saw my freedoms slowly vanish.
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Found Futures: Postcards From The Future (2007)
Practitioner:
Guerrilla Futures
Date:
May 30 2007
Postcards from four different versions of Hawaii circa 2030 were mailed out serially to the homes of over 100 community leaders.
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Dr. Cruel and the Afro- Icelandic Liberation Front
Practitioner:
Teco Benson, Jakob Boeskob
Date:
Jan 1 2010
By 2010, the Nigerian film industry, also referred to as “Nollywood,” had become the second-largest film industry in the world. Today, the accessibility of digital video technology continues to enable prolific amateur filmmakers to produce wildly popular low-budget and direct-to-DVD films, which deal with timely issues of religion, poverty, and corruption.
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Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet - Artists Space
Practitioner:
Tiffany Sia
Date:
Feb 17 2021
Slippery When Wet proposes a wet ontology of Hong Kong—a city in ongoing transfiguration shifting into an uncanny vision of itself. Hong Kong secretes, leaving a trail of ink, tears, humidity, logistic flows, and leaks.
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Vision Workshops
Practitioner:
Vision Workshops
Date:
Nov 1 2007
VisionWorkshops is the creative force behind a series of highly effective photography workshops for youth from underserved communities worldwide. Our mission is to provide innovative, dynamic, educational and life changing experiences for youth, using the tools of photojournalism.
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Sit-in at Veterans Memorial
Practitioner:
Veterans for Peace
Date:
Oct 7 2014
The Veterans Memorial in New York City, located at 55 Water Street, closes every day at 10pm. However, veterans often find themselves wanting to come to the memorial at all hours of the day and night. The organization Veterans for Peace organizes a sit-in every year on October 7th to protest their limited access to the memorial. That's not the only aim of the action, though.
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The Radius Project
Practitioner:
Black Lives/White Light, TableTribes
Date:
Jun 9 2015
"Black Lives/White Light and TABLETRIBES, a D.C.-based tech startup, are coupling art and technology to create The Radius Project, which aims to take conversations surrounding Black Lives Matter beyond newsfeeds and comment sections...TABLETRIBES is a social networking app that allows users interested in similar topics to connect with each other offline...Their goal is to globally scale empathy development by developing opportunities for users to e
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In China, Myths of Social Cohesion
Practitioner:
Chinese Government
Date:
Aug 18 2014
KASHGAR, China — They come for the camel rides, the chance to dress up like a conquering Qing dynasty soldier or to take selfies in front of one of the most historic Islamic shrines in Xinjiang, the sprawling region in China’s far northwest.
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8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don't Have Playmates
Practitioner:
Christian Bucks
Date:
Dec 6 2013
"Eight-year-old Christian Bucks from Roundtown Elementary School noticed that some of his classmates did not have any friends to play with during recess. His solution was to introduce a “Buddy Bench”, where lonely classmates could choose to sit if they wanted a playmate. If two children were seated there, they could ask each other if they wanted to play or talk.
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Center Portion
Practitioner:
Sheila Donohue, Greg Scott
Date:
Jan 1 2000
Space to Play by Rick Kogan
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smArt Action
Practitioner:
Puerto Rican and New York based Students and artists
Date:
May 14 2012
Smart Action 
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Monopoly Man
Practitioner:
Ian Madrigal
Date:
Dec 10 2018
On Tuesday morning, when Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee about his company’s data collection practices, there was a familiar mustachioed face in the crowd. To most people, this person — also wearing a monocle and toting a bag of cash — is none other than the famous board game character most commonly known as Monopoly Man.
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CFA San Francisco Member Brings Black Art and Activism to Students
Practitioner:
Mark Allan Davis
Date:
Feb 9 2023
“As an educator, I want people to have a sense of empowerment. I want them to have ownership of their own creative experience. It’s a very humane thing knowing we are inherently creative.”
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Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike
Practitioner:
Jesse's Deli
Date:
Jun 12 2015
Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike The owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppified names and jacking up prices to illustrate the kind of shop that could afford the 250-percent rent hike they say the store’s landlord is demanding.
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Drumpf Files #3
Practitioner:
Davey Drumpf
Date:
Jan 15 0017
In Drumpf Files #3, Presidential-elect cousin Davey Drumpf tackles fracking, the EPA, and immigrants. They all get away. Maybe he's too busy rewriting John Lennon and rooting for Bernie for President of Denmark? Check it out, then kick its starter! https://youtu.be/LW2zLzgnf9o
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Artists mark Trump's inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Practitioner:
The Federation, a volunteer-run arts organization spearheaded by artist Laurie Anderson and producers Tanya Selvaratnam and Laura Michalchyshyn
Date:
Jan 19 2018
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women's March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation's history.
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Latino Punk Festival NYC
Practitioner:
punk bands from the Americas
Date:
Aug 7 2015
Promoted as a DIY festival with no corporate sponsorship, the 2015 Latino Punk festival in Brooklyn, NY featured bands from all over the Americas. With an emphasis on local bands supporting each other and nurturing local scenes, this festival functions in reference to the ideals of the punk and Riot Grrrl movements in the 1990s.
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Cross-Border Communication
Practitioner:
Broken City Lab
Date:
Nov 1 2009
From Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which are separated by the Detroit River. For three nights, Broken City Lab projected a series of messages across the river which were visible in Detroit.
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Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?
Practitioner:
Rodrigo Rosenberg and Guatemalan civilians
Date:
May 2 2009
In May of 2009 lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered in Guatemla City. A video was released of Rosenberg directed to the Guatemalan public. If you are watching this, he said, I have been murdered by the president Alvaro Colom. The video caused an uproar and sparked protests throughout the city.
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Not Photoshopped
Practitioner:
Feel More Better, Bloggers
Date:
Jul 10 2012
From StyleCaster:
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