Creative Engineering at the Protests in Hong Kong
The whole world is watching Hong Kong, where a battle is playing out in the streets between authorities and citizens protesting China’s encroachment on their independence. It started in June in ...
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Sensei-tion: Kyoto U’s Much-Defaced Orita Bust
A bronze bust of the late educator Hikoichi Orita was vandalized so often, Kyoto University administrators put it into storage – still, the students persisted. Orita-sensei played an ...
We Live Here: Light Art Helps Sydney Tower Residents Protest Gentrification
Residents of Waterloo Estate towers in Sydney, Australia, were given a uniquely visible voice this year amidst city plans to change the neighborhood. The #WeLiveHere2017 project gave 500 ...
Still Life with Smoke Bombs: Artist Live-Paints Berkeley Protest Violence
This past Saturday, Trump supporters and counter-protesters from the left clashed violently in liberal Berkeley, all while one intrepid street painter captured the scene live on canvas. ...
Makeup Not War: Soviet Army Monument’s Many Makeovers
In recent years the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria has become a colorful canvas for protesters, much to the chagrin of Russian politicians. The Monument to the ...
Art of Protest: Student-Built Scale Model of $20 Billion ‘Bailout City’
After the Austrian government spent €19,000,000,000 to bail out a bank in 2014, a student group in Vienna created a giant urban model of a place Hypotopia in protest. This visionary city for ...
Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint
Splashed with bright buckets of paint from roofs and windows, the colorfully defaced buildings of downtown Johannesburg have evoked different reactions from supports and detractors who variously ...
Blacking Out BLU: World-Famous Berlin Mural Erased in Protest
A huge multi-building work of art has been painted over in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin, reportedly at the behest of the artist BLU himself as a reaction to the clearing of an adjacent ...
City Cyclists Wear Car Skeletons to Show How Bikes Save Space
The absurdity of single drivers taking up so much space on the road was vividly highlighted when a group of Latvian cyclists went for a ride wearing car-sized frames made of bamboo. In celebration ...
Nail House: Holdout Building Had Highway Built Around It
China is full of strange stories of so-called 'nail houses' - homes of people who refuse to move to make way for a large development project. Still, this one was particularly unique: its owners ...
