Gift-Wrapped: A Social Enterprise Alternative for the Mentally Ill
Founded in year 2002, early in Europe’s monetary unification, Pixida (Compass) is an Athens, Greece-based innovative social enterprise. It is owned, managed, and run by a team of community members,...
View ArticleResisting Passivity, Encouraging (Food) Justice
Sunset Park is one of New York City’s largest Mexican immigrant neighborhoods. La Unión is a grassroots organization of people of the global south working to advance the social and economic equality,...
View ArticleThe Creative Collective
I visit the Shorefront Nursing Home in Coney Island on Sundays. There are seven floors with a dining room on each floor. There are around fifty residents in a dining room at a time. Residents are...
View ArticleCommon Grounds
As designers, a problem we often face is how to enter communities where we are perceived as outsiders, with the goal of building trust. Trust becomes a crucial step within the design process. This is...
View ArticleMy Best Friend Is Muslim 2.0
Over a decade after 9/11, Muslims in America continue to face more hostility, discrimination and bigotry than almost any other social group in the United States. Although prejudice toward minorities...
View ArticleBitnews
The idea is about freedom of speech, and especially about freedom of speech immune to censorship. More than half of the population of Earth lives under oppressive regimes that seek to suppress freedom...
View ArticleLessen Non-Profit Waste
Almost all non-profits send out loads of return address, bumper, or other graphic stickers each year. These help promote their message, but are often just thrown in the garbage, which contradicts...
View ArticleLeafotos
What brings me to extend my attitude in developing a strategy to reduce suicide in urban environments is my stand on social justice in communities infected with drugs and hate. Starting with the youth...
View ArticleThe Diary Project
The problem I am address is intolerance and acts of hatred toward others different from ourselves. Children, adults, educated and uneducated, historical or contemporary, it seems all humans mistakenly...
View ArticleBaracchino PV
The problem: Pollution caused by fuel engine cars Making touristic services more complete Wider services offer to people in general Good mean of communication for the purpose and the design Best...
View ArticleGetrid
Getrid is a mobile application helping people to get rid of things they don’t need anymore and finding things that could be reused. Overpopulation and overconsumption are among the most dangerous...
View ArticleThe Parsons Agency
The Parsons Agency is a creative working community consisting of students from Parsons at The New School who work in teams helping companies and organizations with design projects. Hiring people from...
View ArticleVolMusic.al
VolMusic.al is an interactive platform that serves as a commonplace for Colombia’s intangible musical heritage so future youth generations can learn from the country’s diversity and unique mixes while...
View Articleoutlaw {skate} culture
outlaw {skate} culture is a literary skateboard magazine, for the forgotten, the unheard of, and the creatures of urban underground scenes who only have themselves to look up to. We’d like to think...
View ArticlePassage Upstate
Passage Upstate is an initiative that intends to build community-based innovative local tourism in Newburgh, New York in order to promote the economic and social resilience of business owners and...
View ArticleThe Futures Arcade
The Futures Arcade is an online platform that uses interactive tools and youth-driven content to make career planning more engaging for high school students. The Futures Arcade is an online platform...
View ArticleIn Our Minds
In Our Minds is an innovative teaching aid that will empower teachers to help pupils with mental health issues through educating their peer group and directing them to support. Twenty-five percent of...
View ArticlePhileasFogg
PhileasFOGG is a postdisaster response, visualization and communication kit for deployment by communities in New York City. PhileasFOGG is a system to provide on the ground users the capacity to...
View ArticleConociducación
Conociducación is a multi-tiered project that uses urban pedagogy workshops and a targeted skillsharing platform to facilitate the enactment of the 2007- 2019 Community Action Plan of the neighborhood...
View ArticleSTEAM Punks
STEAM Punk is a set of kits that helps children ages 6-18 in Kabul explore technology and design through making. We at STEAM Punk believe that all kids should have the chance to explore basic...
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