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Smog Ring - Pollution Transformed into Art
Practitioner
Daan Roosegaarde
Date
Jan 1 2014

“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and “social designer”, who has been making effort to combine the energy saving technology with visually enjoyable art.

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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in 'haunting' photo
Practitioner
Ai Wei Wei
Date
Feb 1 2016

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees.

For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos. His pose was similar to that of Kurdi’s lifeless body, which washed up on a beach near the Turkish town of Bodrum and was captured in a September 2015 photo.

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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Practitioner
Consortium of Pub-going, Loose, and Forward Women
Date
Feb 2 2015

In late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they found immoral, claiming that the girls were disrepecting traditional Indian values. Video footage of the event spread across Youtube in India, sparking outrage among many at the attack on innocent women.

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#BringBackOurGirls--Another Clicktivism or Activism?
Practitioner
Michelle Obama, activists, Celebrities, Regular People
Date
Apr 30 2014

Michelle Obama tweeted her own portrait holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls and soon countless celebrities echoed this meme online. Throughout a week, this trending hashtag had been turned into a social-media supernova. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign spurred by online sharing brought the outrage against Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping to the global stage.

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Our City: Designing Your City
Practitioner
Our City
Date
Feb 4 2016

Our City is a startup nonprofit based in Oakland and working with cities everywhere. They work with governments, cultural institutions, companies, community organizations, designers, and residents to produce
events, installations, and workshops that use public design to improve cities.

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Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Practitioner
Greenpeace, Doctors Without Borders, Sea-Watch, the Dutch Refugee Boat Foundation, local community groups
Date
Jan 1 2016

Charities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who've died trying to cross the Mediterranean.
More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol on a hill outside the village of Molyvos.
More than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea since the start of 2015.

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Border Crosser
Practitioner
Chico MacMurtie/Amorphic Robot Works (ARW)
Date
Feb 3 2016

ZERO1 is thrilled to commission artist Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works(ARW) Border Crosser during the week leading up to SB50. Rising 40 feet from the ground and arching across an imaginary border before forming a bridge and touching down on the “other side,” Border Crosser is the first of a series of large-scale inflatable robotic sculptures that poetically explore the notion of borders by artist Chico MacMurtrie/ARW.

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China's Vacuum-Cleaner Artist Turning Beijing's Smog into Bricks
Practitioner
Nut Brother
Date
Dec 1 2015

Beijing and the rest of cities in northern China suffer from years of smog pollution.The beige-gray miasma of smog brings coughs and rasping. Hospitals are crowded from respiratory ailments and a midday sky is so dim. But “Brother Nut(坚果兄弟)“, a performance artist, has something solid to show from the acrid soup in the air: a brick of condensed pollution.

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"The Body Of Water"
Practitioner
Desiree Duell
Date
Jun 19 2015

In November 2016, citizens of Flint, MI filed a historic class action law suit against both city and state for the damages wrought by lead contaminants in the water supply. The city's 100 thousand inhabitants have faced damages not only to their homes for the corrosive qualities of the water, but in myriad physical ailments; skin lesions, hair loss, high lead blood levels, vision loss, depression and anxiety are all reported symptoms.

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Europe's First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee Crisis
Practitioner
James DeCairas Taylor
Date
Feb 5 2016

Strap into your scuba gear — this museum is worth it.

Installation began on Museo Atlantico — the latest project of underwater sculptor James deCaires Taylor — this week, 14 meters underwater in Lanzarote, one of the Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. Taylor, whose creations have spanned the waters from the Bahamas to London, calls it the first underwater contemporary art museum in Europe and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Parió Paula
Practitioner
Parió Paula
Date
Jan 15 2009

Parió Paula is an all women’s percussion group based in Lima, Peru. These women are truly artistic renegades defying the social norms of Lima’s predominantly male music scene. With a bold message on emphasizing female expression, these ladies have transformed their countless styles of drumming into something effective for their city.

(see full article and short documentary at link below)

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Rainwater art activism
Practitioner
Serge Belo
Date
Mar 22 2013

To raise awareness among the general public about the global clean water crisis, the artist Belo created an image composed of 66,000 cups of colored rainwater simulating levels of impurities found in water all over the planet. This major work of 3,600 square feet, representing a fetus in the maternal womb, emphasizes the necessity of water, even before birth, for each living person.

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