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A Walk in the Park
Friday, September 21, will be National Park(ing) Day. Originally developed by the San Francisco art collective REBAR, the event encourages cities to convert metered parking spaces into temporary ...
Playing at Peace
Tamar Meshulam's cooperative game Master Peace asks players to complete a circuit around a felt board by developing a collaborative story reflecting a noncompetitive, creative system of personal interaction. Moving ...
Designers without Borders
Originally created to provide support for the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Kampala, Designers without Borders has become a cutting-edge consultant for schools and nonprofit groups in ...
Building Rural Communities
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Managing Information with Rural America(MIRA) grant-making program attempts to use collaborative community development techniques to make electronic communications and information technology more readily accessible. Funding ...
Generational Memory
The Evander Childs High School Mural Project illustrates the changing nature of social memory and the ways in which art can promote community growth and public dialogue. In ...
Urban Renewal
The subtle beauty of working and lower-class housing fascinated poet William Carlos Williams, who praised "the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements." A community arts ...
Community Blackboard
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited (HiWEL) addresses development and computer literacy by allowing children to explore technology for themselves in a communal fashion, rather than relying on the one-way transmission of ...
Cities of Art
UNESCO's Creative Cities Network works with local artists, public agencies, and private supporters to nurture social and economic development while promoting global cultural diversity. The system works ...
Collaborative Conversations: Leonardo Bonanni
It is often difficult to capture the kind of conversations we have here at at the collaborative. This is an attempt to do that, in a quasi journalistic style. It ...
Connor’s Kameraflage gets noticed
A little shout out to fellow collaborative Connor who's work on Kameraflage is getting a lot of attention today. For those of you who don't know:
kameraflage is ...
Documenting Change
Working closely with grassroots organizations, the Panos Institute's Oral Testimony Programme has created a website that explores the effects of development in rural mountain areas. The Mountain Voices site transcribes oral histories from ...
The Recycled Challenge - Wordpress Theme Contest
The collaborative has come into a little bit of money. To celebrate we'll be holding a little contest to for the recycled canvas theme. This seems fairly timely considering ...
Building Community: Featured Experimenters
We've been running the experiment for a little while now (a little over two weeks) and as always, we've gotten a ton of data. More interesting then that though are ...