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  • London's Big Push for Better Design

    Feargus O'Sullivan

    May 23, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Public Practice is the name of a new London social enterprise that is placing top urban planners in local government authorities. The program aims to incorporate skilled urban planners in essential city tasks: building affordable housing, developing better infrastructure, and improving city spaces. Though only in its first year, the program hopes to continue to help “London build more inclusive spaces.”

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  • Are Handicrafts Intellectual Property? These Guatemalan Women Think So.

    Anna-Catherine Brigida

    May 18, 2018 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The expansion of intellectual property laws to cover ancestral knowledge can help protect indigenous people from economic exploitation. Indigenous women in Guatemala are working to pass a law similar to one used in Australia and South Africa to protect the use of textile designs.

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  • Kids Say #MeToo After Each Performance of This Play

    Meera Vijayann

    May 16, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Since the mid-1980s, Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) has used theater to teach elementary and middle school students about sexual abuse and in the process empower them to report it. Over the course of 34 years, 13,000 students have disclosed their abuse experiences following a viewing of the play. “Many parents are very uncomfortable talking to their children about personal body safety because it gets all mixed up with the sex conversation,” executive director of PCAV explains. "The messages in the play fill the gap left behind by ineffective policy and cultural roadblocks," the author says.

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  • Human Biases Are Built into AI—this Artist Is Helping to Change That

    Tess Thackara

    May 15, 2018 |

    Artsy |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A diverse group of people developing, coding, and testing artificial intelligence technologies is critical as the inherent biases of the creators can be found in the AI. Artist Stephanie Dinkins is working to raise awareness of the role AI plays in daily life, the narrow stream of data and perspective informing most AI, and the value of diversity in AI development.

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  • Change on tap: Brewery reshapes the face of a Birmingham neighborhood

    Brad Harper

    May 11, 2018 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    A surprising anchor business in Birmingham helped bring growth to the city: Avondale Brewing Co. Since the brewery opened seven years ago, restaurants and bands have flocked to the city, and the population as well as home prices have increased. Montgomery just attracted its first brewery, and the city is looking to Birmingham as a model for the type of growth it hopes to see.

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  • LACMA and Arizona State University Team Up for a New Grad Program Aimed at Diversifying Museum Leadership

    Henri Neuendorf

    May 09, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Arizona State University have teamed up to provide graduate students with a scholarship, an opportunity to work at LACMA, and a salary for that work. Furthermore, the program is aimed at people of color and has a goal of helping to diversify the curatorial profession.

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  • The Art World Has No Shortage of Legal Disputes. A New Court Wants to Help

    Kate Brown

    May 09, 2018 |

    Artnet |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, The Hague

    A new international court staffed by experts in art law has been developed to hear art arbitration cases. Through this court, cases will be judged by people with a strong knowledge of specialized law resulting in more appropriate rulings and expedited trial times.

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  • The Importance of Beauty in Affordable Housing

    Emily Nonko

    May 09, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Changes in zoning laws as well as the promotion of guiding principles and successful case studies has led to well designed, environmentally efficient, and beautiful supportive housing. Well-designed housing has lessened stigmas and provided residents with a sense of dignity about where they live.

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  • These Citywide Behavioral Science Experiments Are Paying Off

    Ben Paynter

    May 08, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design firm, has advised cities such as New York and Chicago on creative ways to use behavioral design to improve the quality of city life. From helping students sign up for financial aid to decreasing traffic after a sporting event, these creative design tweaks are inexpensive and have clear benefits. If the cities can continue to improve their design successes, other cities will soon follow their lead.

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  • Algebra on Aisle Six: How a Disused Kmart Became a Bold New High School

    Zach Mortice

    May 08, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Waukegan, Illinois

    When Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep, one of a national network of work-study high schools, was looking to move out of an outdated building, an abandoned big box KMart caught administrators' eyes. Strapped by a tight budget, the school creatively transformed the suburban eye sore into a colorful cross between a corporate headquarters and a college campus. Inspired by the school's success, other network schools are looking into vacant factories and grocery stores as new homes.

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