Projects tagged "Education"

ABILITY Lab at NYU
Practitioner:
New York University
Date:
May 26 2015
The ABILITY Lab is an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the development of adaptive and assistive technologies. The Lab is open to NYU students and faculty of all fields looking to create inclusive systems, design human-centered projects, and further intellectual and clinical research around areas of ability.
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Autonomous Zones
Practitioner:
Student Plenum
Date:
Feb 11 2015
After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO – making innuendo about ‘foreign influence’ prompting similar concerns from Russia.
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8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don't Have Playmates
Practitioner:
Christian Bucks
Date:
Dec 6 2013
"Eight-year-old Christian Bucks from Roundtown Elementary School noticed that some of his classmates did not have any friends to play with during recess. His solution was to introduce a “Buddy Bench”, where lonely classmates could choose to sit if they wanted a playmate. If two children were seated there, they could ask each other if they wanted to play or talk.
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The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine Ridge
Practitioner:
The Oglala Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitalization Initiative
Date:
Apr 15 2018
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Lakota, designated as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This land and its people have endured many tragedies at the hands of the United States government. Over 500 treaties negotiated in good faith with the U.S. government have been broken, changed or nullified to suit expansionist interests. Despite centuries of oppression, the Lakota people remain resilient, faithful, and strong.
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The Sacred Art of Ori
Practitioner:
Laolu Senbanjo
Date:
Apr 27 2017
The story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After a career as a human rights attorney, Senbanjo moved to New York City to pursue art full time. “With my art, I like to tell stories, I like to start a conversation,” says Senbanjo, but life as an artist in New York was tough.
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Now What?
Practitioner:
The pirARTes
Date:
Apr 25 2021
Now What? project has just finished a series of interactive workshops, where global citizens came together to reflect on the global sustainability issues, got inspired and empowered to imagine the world anew through poetry and imagery. With the focus on the community and climate action, the project is live on social platforms and soon to be a collective street art too.
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Mind Over Media
Practitioner:
Media Education Lab
Date:
Nov 1 2017
Mind Over Media is a crowdsourced educational platform that contains diverse examples of contemporary propaganda on a wide range of social, political, economic and environmental topics.
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The Whole World Is An Art School
Practitioner:
Bob and Roberta Smith
Date:
Feb 13 2018
Bob and Roberta Smith has been at the forefront of activist art for 2 decades; so who better to ask about how art is responding to these politically bleak times?
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Practitioner:
Vince Staples
Date:
Jul 11 2016
Vince Staples mentioned Long Beach's Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime '06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1" and "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2." "The sun come down and guns come out, you know Ramona Park."
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Social Media powered car
Practitioner:
MINDDRIVE
Date:
May 22 2013
It took 17 high schoolers, eight mentors from Kansas City and a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to create the first ever social media powered car. The concept was to bring MINDDRIVE to life with tweets, posts, shares and likes which were monitored by an Arduino device. This open-source, single-board microcontroller triggered the vehicle’s motor based on the number of tweets and posts about the project.
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Educational architecture: a floating school in Bangladesh
Practitioner:
Mohammed Rezwan
Date:
Jan 1 2010
What inspired you to build a school on a boat?
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NYC Street Art Map
Practitioner:
Huffington Post
Date:
Jan 26 2014
Huffington Post put together a digital, interactive map of some of the so-called best and brightest street art collections. Street art is important because it allows artists, usually from the community where the street art is taking place, to interact with the community and bring color/brightness to the environment.
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Ban Bossy
Practitioner:
Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In
Date:
Apr 24 2014
When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a “leader.” Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded “bossy.” Words like bossy send a message: don't raise your hand or speak up. By middle school, girls are less interested in leading than boys—a trend that continues into adulthood. Together we can encourage girls to lead.
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Play the News: Making the News Interactive
Practitioner:
Impact Games
Date:
Feb 13 2008
From Games for Change site:
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Dad Writes Anti-Sexism Timewarp Letter to Daughter's School
Practitioner:
Stephen Callaghan
Date:
Aug 12 2017
When the boys were sent on a field trip to a hardware store and girls went to get their hair done, this modern dad didn’t get mad, he got hilarious. He wrote a letter notifying the school that there was a rift in the time space continuum somewhere in the school and that his kids had been sent back to 1968. He requested that the administration fix the timewarp immediately. This kind of humor is a hallmark of creative nonviolence.
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WeTOPIA, Delivering "Joy" In a Real Way
Practitioner:
Sojo Studios
Date:
Nov 29 2011
Sojo Studios, a new entertainment company, made plenty of headlines this week with its first social game, WeTopia. The studio is gaining plenty of attention with news of its $8 million arsenal, a roster of partnerships with non-profits like Save the Children, Children’s Health Fund and buildOn, consumer brand advertisers, and Ellen DeGeneres as one its business investors and partners. 
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The Great Migration Series
Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence
Date:
May 12 1941
National Public Radio (NPR): There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might say: "Here lived one of the 20th century's most influential visual artists, a man named Jacob Lawrence, who was a child of southern migrants."
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It Gets Better
Practitioner:
Dan Savage and Terry Miller
Date:
Sep 21 2010
After a spate of bullying-related suicides of LGBT youth, gay columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller decided to launch the It Gets Better project to see what they could do about it. They began with a simple YouTube video in which both of them described their experiences with bullying in high school, coming out, their families, and the story of their relationship and the adoption of their sun.
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A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Practitioner:
women's rights activists
Date:
Jun 25 2017
In state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid's Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes and white bonnets have been appearing at demonstrations against gender discrimination and the infringement of reproductive and civil rights.
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Flexin' in My Complexion
Practitioner:
Kheris Rogers
Date:
Sep 13 2017
Kheris Rogers, an 11-year-old entrepreneur from Los Angeles, has made history at New York Fashion Week as the youngest fashion designer ever to present. Kheris became an internet sensation earlier this year after her sister posted photos of her promoting her unapologetic Flexin' in My Complexion apparel line.
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Education vs Prison Costs
Practitioner:
Tal Yellin / CNNMoney
Date:
May 8 2013
By publishing publicly available census data regarding education alongside the economics of prison, CNN Money has activated many people to disperse this information online, and contribute to a larger conversation around the issue of the Prison Industrial Complex, and the general privatization of the prison industry within the United States. Source: U.S. Census Data and Vera Institute of JusticeGraphic: Tal Yellin / CNNMoney
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Artist Statement
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
May 7 0020
Mine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped in the paths of RESISTANCE. My Ideological Swag -word is CREATIVITY. My spiritual birth mark is RESILIENCE. My revolutionary slogan is a nonviolent but a poetic fist of MASS INSTRUCTION. I am non-selfish believer.
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Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest
Practitioner:
Barnard
Date:
Mar 25 2018
“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest, welcoming approximately 40 zine-makers eager to share their work.
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Gesta Final
Practitioner:
Cuban Government
Date:
Apr 8 2013
HAVANA — It’s the latest challenge for computer gamers, in Cuba at least: Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Same Curriculum, Different opportunities
Practitioner:
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Date:
Dec 6 2013
Created a platform to showcase disparities that are therein in public basic schools verses the private schools. Simple a call to duty bearers to act on the deplorable physical learning environment existing in the public schools , because the environment impacts teaching and learning.
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