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Destroyed Landscapes
Terranova Vision uses landscape art as a tool for both saving communities affected by large-scale resource extraction or political conflict and creating works that encourage awareness of environmental issues and the contextuality ...
Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation of art ...
Participatory Urbanism
Interested in the ways in which mobile technology influences social development and the urban landscape, research boutique Urban Atmospheres has built an ongoing project on the belief that cell phones and other ...
Something Old, Something New on Hollywood Boulevard
As a move to counter the miasma of gentrification and celebrate the street's blended heritage--incorporating waves of migration and development, pop culture pilgrimage with lived urban experience--the Los Angeles Forum for ...
City Lights
The Helsinki-themed collaborative media and art project CityWall allows users to explore images and data gleaned from the Internet--particularly items from YouTube and Flickr. With help from the Ubiquitous Interaction ...
Cafe Utopia
The BeGood Cafe, founded in Tokyo in 1999, continues the long association between hot beverages and positive social change. Created to provide an open forum for exploring issues related to the environment and ...
Fallen Fruit
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project exploring conservation, ...
Storysharing
The Digital Clubhouse Network grew out of a NASA-sponsored project exploring ways in which digital technology can be used to strengthen communities. The nonprofit group relies on two community incubators--one in ...
New to the Collaborative
Greetings all, I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Originally from outside Chicago, I came to the east coast first to work at Brown University, and then to pursue Graduate Studies ...
Playa Viva
Playa Viva, a resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico, provides models of green business development and ecotourism. The resort's founders realized that their connection to the area would benefit ...
An Opinion: Designing Outrage
As someone who occasionally does design work I rail against spec work and everything it stands for. As someone who is an objective human being - I have a different perspective. I ...
“The Power to Empower”
Atlanta-based blackEnergy arose from electrical engineer Sonja Ebron's concerns about rising utility rates in African-American communities. Taking advantage of energy deregulation, Ebron organized consumers into groups that bargained collectively with providers, allowing them ...
Quantifying Culture
The Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project created a way of describing an area's cultural infrastructure in quantifiable terms, allowing policymakers to see the effects of artistic development on ...
Community Agriculture
Oregon-based Food Not Lawns questions the social, economic, and ecological impact of the monotonous green lawn and urges supporters to use land in ways that foster local self-reliance and greater community awareness. ...
Creative Giving (and Getting)
As we find ourselves deep into the Holiday season, we might be thinking of what last minute gifts we need to get. As a nonprofit, we're always thinking that charitable giving is ...