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  • Will New Funding And A Comprehensive Plan Be Enough To Bring Change To State Psychiatric Hospitals?

    June 28, 2019 |

    Texas Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    With hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to making over Texas’ hospital system, designers are looking beyond simply upgrading the physical infrastructure. Instead, they’re reimagining what the entire system could look like. Considering physical space, the upstream causes of mental health issues, and how to attract and retain the best practitioners are just a few of the elements that are being considered in this redesign.

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  • Forget Game of Thrones: The master of the cliffhanger is back

    June 18, 2019 |

    Middle East Eye |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    Building community around storytelling preserves cultural heritage. Across Lebanon, individuals and institutions like the Lebanese Ministry of Culture and the Theatre Monnot in Beirut are working to preserve oral culture as a medium for storytelling. Initiatives, including the long-running International Storytelling Festival and Beirut’s Hakaya, bring together storytellers, known as hakawati and hakawatiye.

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  • Why this company wants your old underwear

    June 13, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    New startups are recycling worn fabrics as a way to combat the environmental impact of the fashion industry. Knickey is a subscription service where people can trade in worn-out underwear for a new pair of organic cotton underwear. After just six months, the company has collected thousands of pairs that is then sent to a nonprofit to be recycled. While the recycling process itself isn’t always sustainable, companies are trying to educate shoppers to pay attention to where their clothes come from.

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  • La musique adoucit les douleurs

    June 07, 2019 |

    Libération |

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    Response Location: France

    Moins de psychotropes, moins de sédatifs : l’intervention de musicothérapeutes auprès de malades démontre les vertus curatives de la musique.

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  • Young Bosnians use art, activism to address past, try to change the country's future

    June 05, 2019 |

    Civic Ideas |

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    Response Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Banja Luka

    Bringing people of different ethnic backgrounds together to create art and express themselves helps war-torn societies cope and grow. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Most Mira program helps people touched by the horrors of the Bosnian war grapple with issues of memory and identity by engaging in theater. The theater troupe consists of Bosnian and Serbian high school students who participate in a multi-year program.

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  • This Newspaper Hired Homeless People to Report Its Stories

    May 21, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Street Sense is a biweekly, volunteer-run newspaper whose vendors and content creators are part of the homeless community in Washington, DC. Vendors purchase the issues at a discount and then sell them at a profit, generating an income for themselves, and having the creative outlet of a newspaper allows vendors to tell their stories in their own way. Street Sense Media, the parent organization, also offers vendors workshops in theater, writing, graphic design, podcasting, and more. They also have case workers on staff to help connect vendors with assistance that leads to permanent housing and healthcare.

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  • Termite and ventilation system

    May 20, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Harare

    Buildings with permeable surfaces increase energy efficiency, mimicking natural structures. In Harare, Zimbabwe, the Eastgate Centre employs methods borrowed from termite mound construction to efficiently regulate the building's temperature. By employing insights that scientists had gained by studying the airflow in termite mounds, the Centre’s architects used materials with a high thermal mass, increased surface area, and maximized ventilation.

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  • How Rapid-Response Exhibits Are Changing the Way Museums Engage Their Communities

    May 15, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Creating and deploying exhibitions in response to real-time events can allow museums to play a larger role in community engagement and education. By developing so-called rapid-response exhibits, museums can respond more effectively to contemporary issues. The exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, I AM A CHILD, employs this approach to the crisis of human rights surrounding US child separation policies for Immigration and Customs, while the K(NO)W JUSTICE, K(NO)W PEACE exhibit focuses on responses to police violence in Charlottesville, North Carolina.

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  • Designing the Butterfly-Friendly City

    May 13, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As the monarch butterfly nears endangerment, cities across the US are integrating butterfly-friendly spaces into their urban environments. Such spaces reside in schools, firehouses, parks, and more, and they enable the butterfly to rest, feed, pollinate, and procreate at any stage in their lifecycle. St. Louis in particular already has over 400 monarch gardens and have ample evidence of public support for the projects.

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  • The First City to Remove and Replace a Confederate Monument

    May 09, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Helena, Montana

    Earlier this year, Helena, Montana became the first city in the United States to both remove and replace a confederate monument. A group called the Equity Fountain Project will replace the old monument with a public art project, a "Sphere of Interconnectedness" that will have steel strands on a round millstone.

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