“Design for the Real World Redux” features submissions to the international design competition for the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award. Papanek famously argued that “design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical”.
CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy) is seeking collaborators for the next four issues of Making Policy Public, their publication series that uses graphic and information design to explore and explain complex public policy issues.
A new exhibit at Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn is showing the work of 27 artists brought together on the theme of sustainability.
First Street Green is showing signs of life: a day of music, dance and cultural readings this Sunday, April 22, 2012 from 2:30-6:30pm.
Founded in 2005 by educator Rebecca Krucoff and playwright Ain Gordon, the Urban Memory Project asks residents to explore the vital relationship between their personal…
Trade School is New York’s unique creative barter-for-knowledge program. Classes are continuing through March and into April, and creating a class of your own is possible too.
(Image via red dot) Talk about painting the town green…Grass Paint won a red dot design concept award. “Grass Paint is an eco-friendly grass-seeding…
A Utopia is an ideal place or state. With this in mind, Curator Katherine Gressel asks artists, youth, activists, architects, designers and urban theorists to consider different visions of an ideal Brooklyn.
“If we want society to change, we should look at ourselves, and learn from whatever is already working.”
An experimental film from 1968 consisted of a single dolly shot from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge to the lake in Central Park
Need an outlet for ideas? Just write on the car. A car entirely wrapped in plastic appeared at Fifth Avenue and Second Street in Park Slope last weekend. With markers taped to the plastic, the car was asking to be written on. The largest text read, “ideas for public space.”
Feeling like a DIY project this spring? Build It Green! NYC, a non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials, is a great local resource
Join Fourth Arts Block (FAB) at Load OUT!, a a one of a kind re-use & repurposing event, that brings together gently used materials of all sorts…
The Water Tank Project, an ambitious public art initiative, would make use of one of New York’s most distinctive architectural features to bring attention to the worldwide crisis in safe water.
Looking to plan some fun “green” art projects for the spring? Grow your own Moss Graffiti! Check out environmental artist Anna Garforth for inspiration! Materials: Moss Blender…
How much do you know about renewable energy? The Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies is an amazing new resource developed by Land Art Generator Initiative.
Artist Mary Miss has embarked on a project to use the length of Broadway as a space for installations that can engage the public in…