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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 ...
Campaigning Word by Word
Two recent visualization projects posted on Many Eyes--an offshoot of IBM's Collaborative User Experience research group--use frequency diagrams to examine the tone and emphasis of recent political speeches. Presenting ...
Going Public
Inspired by the same interface and knowledge-sharing model as Wikipedia, Wikileaks plans to provide an uncensorable, anonymous forum for sharing information about corrupt or immoral actions in the public realm. Wikileaks will make leaked ...
Remembering Uganda
The nonprofit group Creative Visions provides socially-conscious artists and designers with funding, technical support, and networking. Two of the group's projects explore the experiences of Ugandans during the war against the
Rights Videos
Responding to the ability of film to capture the experiences of abuse survivors and the videotaped beating of Rodney King in the early 1990s, musician Peter Gabriel created WITNESS to ...
Rights Software
The Martus software package gives human rights organizations a secure tool for managing information, particularly data related to the identity of victims or witnesses of abuses. The software allows reformers to ...
Another Use for Jazz
Years ago, planner Lawrence Halprin experimented with using musical scores and choreographic notation (as well as the hexagrams from the I Ching) to create a common language for artists, designers, ...
The Aesthetics of Democracy
The visual style of electoral politics has changed dramatically since the early nineteenth century. As depicted by historian Michael McGerr, limitations imposed by printing technology, the widespread use of oral ...
Social Labeling
Inspired by personal curiosity about the experiences of one panhandler in Venice, California, the creator of Project Hello realized that an awareness of the homeless as individuals would increase awareness of the ...
The One and Only
The Lonely Candidate explores the way in which contemporary political rhetoric has overused a simple word and simultaneously reduced innovation and individualism to a level of triteness. The blog records instances of presidential candidates (with some ...
The Art of Being in Danger
A few years ago, a public art project by the Belgian Royal Academy Dendermonde Against Racism (RADAR) challenged people to reconsider the ways in which they viewed poverty and homelessness by ...
Green Cross
Inspired by ideas set forth by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International hopes that a paradigm shift in social attitudes and values will lead to a more sustainable and peaceful global community. The group ...
Surveillance Art
Concerned about the proliferation of security cameras over the course of the 1990s, a group of artists formed the Surveillance Camera Playersto protest the erosion of privacy. The troupe works to raise public ...
Punditry, a Spectrum Thereof
Lying in Ponds tries to quantify political writing by rating popular authors and analysts according to the tone and context in which they use key terms. Staff members download columns and flag ...
The Way of the Gun
The cover of the September/October 2007 issue of Good Magazine bore the image of an AK-47--a symbol of good design as well as a socio-political icon--and asked the question: "Is there design ...