Posted in Art, espace public, santé & société on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Running the Numbers
: An American Self-Portrait
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
My hope is that images [...]
Posted in espace public, tools & tech on February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
About City Repair
The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating
public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the
places where they live.
With a mostly volunteer staff and the help of hundreds of volunteer citizen activists, our many projects:
educate people about why most
American neighborhoods are socially isolating and culturally inactive,
and how we [...]
Posted in Art, espace public on June 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Emerging trends in art
HobbyPrincess
On museums and web 2.0 Some time ago Virtueel Platform organized a workshop called Take Away Museum to discuss new emerging ways to engage people in conversations with exhibited artwork and artifacts. The central question was: what is Web 2.0 for museums?
In general there seem to be four basic ways for [...]
Posted in espace public, maps 2.0, santé & société on May 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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Keeping it Local, Keeping it Green
Posted April 13, 2006 by Rod Edwards
in General InterestBuying local produce is a green retail mantra – avoiding the shipping of produce across the country or the world saves resources and prevents the release of tonnes of CO2. But – the same thinking has failed to [...]
Posted in Environnement, espace public, santé & société on May 23, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Urban Spaces | Urban Places
The Relational Neighborhood
Over the past few weeks, I have participated in a spontaneous bonfire in a neighbor’s backyard, helped a neighbor lay patio blocks, moved a neighbor’s new couch into her house, shared beer, food, joys, and sorrows with neighbors, salvaged items from a neighbor’s trash for my use, [...]
Posted in Environnement, espace public on February 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Le plastique fait des dégats monstre. Ce billet en deux temps vous dirige vers un reportage de radio-canada sur les dommages causés par les contenants d’eau embouteillée; et la seconde partie vous demande de faire le détour pour signer une pétition qui vise à bannir les sacs de plastique ¨qui tuent¨.
Radio-Canada.ca
Nature et environnementÉmission du 12 [...]
Posted in espace public, incident, personnel on June 3, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Voilà une rencontre en confrontation.
Deux jeunes (approximativement 15 ans) parlent trop forts et font du bruit malgré leur présence dans un petit cubicule en retrait (salle pour les rencontres de groupe).
J’interviens comme cliente d’un espace public qui se fait déranger. Le silence revient mais brièvement, j’interviens de nouveau–gentiment mais ce n’est que partie remise.
Je [...]
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