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Just Be - Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Apr 13 2017
The participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork.
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Tinder Hack - Bros Swiping Bros
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Mar 1 2015
Man is a thirsty beast, and nowhere is that thirst more acutely exemplified than on Tinder, the matchmaking app that lets users swipe right in their quest to find love, lust, bots, or viral marketers. Now a California-based programmer has tweaked the app’s API, creating a catfish machine that fools men into thinking they’re talking to women — when in fact they’re talking with each other.
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The Moon Project
Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei, Olafur Eliasson, multiple individuals
Date:
Nov 7 2013
Artists Ai Wei Wei and Olafur Eliasson have come together to collaborate on the project Moon. The Moon Project is an interactive platform that consists of an open online interface, which anyone with an internet connection can access and leave their mark on the moon. The project was first presented this past November at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin.
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10:10
Practitioner:
Franny Armstrong
Date:
Apr 21 2014
Environmental activist Franny Armstrong's brainwave came as she was walking to a debate with the then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband. She had read a report saying that the developed world must cut its carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 to avoid passing the tipping point. Armstrong, 39, dropped her idea to start a campaign into the debate. 10:10 was born.
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Faiz
Practitioner:
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Date:
Feb 13 1911
Faiz | Hum Dekhenge | BolFaiz Ahmed
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Art for Social Change Project (ASC!)
Practitioner:
International Centre for Art and Social Change (ICASC), Judith Marcuse Projects, Simon Fraser University
Date:
Sep 1 2013
What is Art for Social Change? There are many ways of defining art for social change. In each of these cases, art for social change strives toward effective engagement with social issues that integrate and celebrate imaginative thinking, helping people to find new ways to see and be engaged in the world. In the context of the ASC Project, three types of art for social change are considered:
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How a 57-hour Donkey Kong game struck a blow against online toxicity
Practitioner:
Hbomberguy
Date:
Jan 20 2019
One of the defining features of politics in the 21st century has been the way online cultural phenomena can cross over into the “real” world. Unfortunately, perhaps because the internet seems to bring out the worst in people, those phenomena have largely been, well, awful.
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What Kind of Man are You?
Practitioner:
aleXsandro Palombo
Date:
Mar 7 2014
In a dark nod to International Women's Day, artist aleXsandro Palombo has turned to the world of cartoon characters to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence. His series, "No Violence Against Women," transforms iconic animated women into victims of abuse, resulting in a familiar yet ultimately disturbing collection of illustrations.
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"Get Out"
Practitioner:
Jordan Peele
Date:
Feb 24 2017
Jordan Peele discovered halfway through the making of “Get Out” what story he wanted to tell: A horror-thriller for black audiences that delivered a searing satirical critique of systemic racism.
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#NoMásMáscaras - campaña contra ataques con ácido
Practitioner:
Fundación Natalia Ponce de León
Date:
Mar 29 2016
Entre el 2004 y el 2014 se registraron 982 víctimas de ataque con ácido en Colombia. En el 41 por ciento de los casos, el agresor no fue identificado. El aumento de casos llevó a que en enero pasado se promulgara una ley que endurece los castigos contra ese flagelo y con la que se busca reducir al máximo esta situación en todo el país.
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Queering the Map
Practitioner:
Lucas LaRochelle
Date:
Jan 1 2017
Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
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Black Trans Archive Video Game
Practitioner:
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Date:
Aug 1 2021
"Built from the ground up by Black trans coders and developers, The Black Trans Archive takes the form of a video game, allowing visitors to interact with its content in real-time, making their own contributions in the process. It’s also specifically designed to ensure that this work can never be deleted, allowing everything contained within it to persist long beyond anyone who was involved in its creation.
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The Sea of Escape
Practitioner:
Qiong Zhang
Date:
Nov 19 2022
"I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called "Missing Persons Notice.'"
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Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms
Practitioner:
Liang Shaoji
Date:
Jul 30 2019
“I am a silkworm.” Liang Shaoji has repeatedly used this phrase to describe his work, underscoring his preoccupation with the materiality of silk and the technology of sericulture, or silk farming. For more than twenty-five years, Liang Shaoji has raised silkworms and trained them to spin silk onto different objects in his Nature series.
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Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns"
Practitioner:
Pedro Reyes
Date:
Jan 1 2007
An artist in Culiacan, Mexico—which has the highest rate of gun deaths in the country—has found a way to transform the agents of death into seeds of life. In 2008, artist Pedro Reyes started running television ads urging locals to exchange their guns for food coupons to be redeemed at local stores. The campaign—Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns"—collected 1,527 guns, which Reyes publicly smashed with a steamroller.
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Habla, pueblo, habla: Advertising techniques for (a sort of) political change
Practitioner:
Radiotelevisión Española
Date:
Dec 15 1976
On Wednesday, December 15th 1976, a referendum was held in Spain. The question was to pass or not to pass the Ley para la Reforma Política (Political Reform Act). This Act was the legal instrument that allowed Spain to transition between Francisco Franco’s dictatorship to a democratic constitutional regime, a parliamentary monarchy.
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video Game
Practitioner:
Global Kids Youth Leaders in the Playing for Keeps program
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Part of the following description is taken from an article posted on the website of Digital-Is National Writing Project (link below):
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After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here
Practitioner:
Artists civilians in Myanmar
Date:
Feb 16 2021
"Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Orixás
Practitioner:
Hugo Canuto
Date:
Jan 13 2017
Imagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we'd have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor would be the equally strong and black-skinned Xangô, the ruler of justice — who also happens to carry a hammer.
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Mi Minor - a deMOCKracy play
Practitioner:
Meltem Arikan, Pinar Ogun, Memet Ali Alabora
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Mi Minor is a play that is set in the freedom in a box democracy Pinima. The moment you enter ‘the playground’ you enter the country Pinima.
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