Artist Tonika Johnson’s work about racist housing practices in South Side Chicago has bridged the intellectual divide between art and urban policy – and found that home repairs can offset gentrification
BERLIN, GERMANY
BERLIN, GERMANY
PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA
PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA
This is a story of how two young men, born into occupation and poverty, were able to use their own bodies as tools of liberation – and how, through my work, I was privileged to help them speak to the world.
A community-led initiative revives a contemporary ruin in its quest to fight against the excessive privatization of public space in Bangkok
Claudia Saam and Wolf-Rüdiger Baumann extensively researched their building’s former residents, most of them German Jews, and found their descendants abroad.
Not everything in Yemen is war; in the city of Ta’izz, writers and poets encourage dialogue, understanding and unity through arts
The Documenters program creates new public records, providing city dwellers full transparency at the local government level and the best that democracy can offer
CHICAGO, IL, USA
Artist Françoise Schein reflects on her lifelong mission to raise consciousness about human rights – in the subway, at parks and on walls in cities worldwide
PARIS, FRANCE
PARIS, FRANCE
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA
“Libraries are more than repositories. They are sites of heritage and action.”
NAIROBI, KENYA
“As those spaces were filling up with people, it was evident that there was interest. People wanted to see another type of comedy.”
MEXICO CITY
“Religious property is actually working against our religious objectives.”
MONTREAL, CANADA
'Through my art I am trying to transmit a positive message to other women to wage the war with non-violent alternatives'.
ADEN, YEMEN
“I would have never imagined many of the things we did in the last eight years together. A settler right winged Israeli and a Palestinian, right?”
BERLIN, GERMANY
"By uniting over personal political preferences our debate became much more public."
BARCELONA, SPAIN
"While cycling I realized that, although 80 percent of Salvador's population is black or of mixed race, mostly only whites were using bikes.”
SALVADOR, BAHIA, BRAZIL
“Instead of pretending like there’s nothing happening around here [Southward], there are lots of talents in the community. Let’s show everybody what we’ve got.”
LONDON, UK