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  • How Asia's 5,000-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control

    Xiaoying You

    August 06, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

    Architects across Asia are taking inspiration from a traditional form of agriculture called rice terraces to create flood-resilient infrastructure in cities that lack places for excess water to go. In Bangkok, for example, a university’s roof mimics the step-like design, and the water it holds is used to grow rice.

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  • How Frankfurt Harnesses Local Wind Currents for Urban Cooling

    Jana Randow Laura Millan

    August 03, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Germany, Frankfurt

    Frankfurt is changing the way it designs its buildings to adapt to extreme heat. The city works with urban climatology researchers to ensure new housing and skyscrapers won’t impact the wind corridors that keep residents cool, and it promotes practices like installing green roofs.

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  • Virtual reality experience promotes understanding of challenges faced by transgender individuals

    Jose Mayorquin

    June 28, 2024 |

    WTVD-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    An interactive virtual reality experience developed with transgender individuals called Body of Mine VR is fostering empathy and understanding by sharing personal narratives and anecdotes that demonstrate their journeys, struggles, and triumphs.

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  • As temperatures in India break records, ancient terracotta air coolers are helping fight extreme heat

    Kamala Thiagarajan

    May 31, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India

    Artists, architects, and urban designers in India are reimagining the ancient practice of cooling water in terracotta pots to create terracotta structures that cool the air nearby during extreme heat.

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  • 'It's about the process': Art therapy provides creative outlet as mental health care

    Mila Mascenik Sophia Melin

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Art therapy is a growing practice that helps people access and assess their emotions through visual and performing arts like painting and dancing.

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  • Art therapy helps family caregivers cope with hard times

    Eleanore Catolico

    March 05, 2024 |

    New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Pontiac, Michigan

    The Art Experience provides free art therapy classes for caregivers, offering a space for them to gather for respite and creative self-expression. At the classes, caregivers learn mindfulness, self-care practices and meet one-on-one with certified art therapists to discuss their individual situations and learn ways to cope with stress.

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  • Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

    Tanka Dhakal

    February 25, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Tharu community, Nepal, Kathmandu

    A coalition of local businesses in Kathmandu, Nepal, is sorting non-recyclable waste collected from mountaineering activities in the Himalayan mountains. Once it is sorted, skilled Indigenous craftswomen make it into new products, like placemats and jewelry boxes, to earn a living.

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  • Giving buildings a new, green lease on life

    Krithiga Narayanan

    February 02, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: India, Chennai

    An architect in Chennai, India, is retrofitting private residences and public buildings to be more sustainable. They make changes like installing energy-efficient upgrades, solar panels, improved ventilation, and low-flow plumbing fixtures to reduce water and energy consumption.

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  • Ciudad Bolívar en Bogotá, la nueva imagen de color de una antigua zona llena de tristeza

    Jair Díaz

    January 26, 2024 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    En Bogotá, una iniciativa llevada a cabo por jóvenes recupera, poco a poco, una zona catalogada como problemática y peligrosa. Se llama Ciudad Bolívar y, ahora, con sus grafitis reflejan el arte callejero.

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  • Houses that breathe: Vietnamese architects turning the tide to tackle climate change 

    Nhung Nguyen

    January 15, 2024 |

    Mekong Eye |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    Architects in Vietnam are creating climate-resilient buildings with nature-based designs and materials that adapt to the local weather to reduce the building’s emissions throughout its lifespan by naturally regulating the temperature.

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