The Bike Project
Thema: Bikes to help London’s refugees get around. Beschreibung: Transport in London can be expensive. This is especially true for a refugee going through the asylum process. Having fled persecution and atrocity in their country of origin, they are forced to live on a mere £36 a week in benefits, and prevented from finding employment. … Weiterlesen
CityShelf NYC
Thema: Go local for books! The CityShelf app makes it easier for people to skip Amazon and buy at Indie book stores. Beschreibung: We love books. (Yes, the paper kind.) And we love supporting local bookstores! But tracking down a specific book can be a hassle. CityShelf makes it easy to browse your nearby bookstores … Weiterlesen
Orange Sky Laundry
Thema: Australia’s first mobile laundry for the homeless. Beschreibung: We are Australia’s first mobile laundry service providing homeless people with access to free washing/drying facilities. We are a new not-for-profit organisation run by volunteers. We want to harness the energy of the 18 – 30 year olds who are not given an easy outlet for … Weiterlesen
FOODLOGICA
Thema: A logistical service designed to clean the last mile of Amsterdam’s local food system using e‑trikes. Beschreibung: FOODLOGICA links local food, consumers and businesses in Amsterdam’s city center through transport that reduces emissions, congestion and pollution. FOODLOGICA’s flexible services suit diverse clients, such as local businesses such as food shops, small-scale food producers, chefs, … Weiterlesen
Future Library
Thema: A 100-year artwork. Beschreibung: A thousand trees have been planted in Nordmarka, a forest just outside Oslo, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, … Weiterlesen
BrightFarms
Thema: Urban agriculture. Beschreibung: As BrightFarm Systems, an urban greenhouse consultancy, we worked on a dozen farms over two years, including the rooftop greenhouse at The Manhattan School for Children, and the rooftop greenhouse at Forest Houses, an affordable housing project in the Bronx. BrightFarms’ mission is to improve the environmental impact of the food … Weiterlesen
Write A House
Thema: A different kind of writer’s residency program. Beschreibung: Write A House is a Detroit-based literary organization that invests in vocational training to renovate vacant homes and then awards the homes to emerging writers. It’s like a writer’s in residence program, but the writers get to keep the homes, forever. Write A House seeks to … Weiterlesen
The Street Store – Hang Up. Help Out
Thema: The world’s first rent-free, premises-free, free “pop-up clothing store” for the poor, found entirely on the street and curated by you. Beschreibung: „Every country has a lot of have-nots. But also has a lot of haves. But how do we remind the haves, that the have-nots need help? We need a middle ground, so … Weiterlesen
WE ARE TRAFFIC
Thema: An ongoing photographic series portraying cyclists. Beschreibung: The project “WE ARE TRAFFIC” was started by Hamburg-based photographers Björn Lexius and Till Gläser. They want to draw attention to the bicycle as means of transport and to support the demand for equal rights for cyclists in traffic. Ort: Hamburg, Germany Web und Text-/Bildquelle: WE ARE … Weiterlesen
A-Kamp47
Thema: Stealth shelters. Beschreibung: The rapid shelter opens like an umbrella for urban campers, together in warmth. These spaces are actually in legal ambiguity, cantilevered on the law between private and public property. By appropriating blind walls, we are in reality neither inside nor outside. It’s this interstitial space that has been taken and thickened … Weiterlesen
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