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Milk and CookiesDublin, 2010

Milk and cookies is a storytellling night that takes place in Dublin. The event is free and everyone is welcome. It usually takes place in Exchange in Temple Bar. There is an open mic night, and there are tea, coffee, cookies and friends!


International Comedy ClubDublin, Ireland2010

Comedy is about telling stories!


Listowel SyndromeDublin Fringe Festival2010A dark tale of small-town solidarity. Majority rules and a close-knit community turns on one of its own. This is Listowel Syndrome – in a small town you can’t afford to make enemies and actions do have consequences. Reflecting on a recent case that saw a large number of people express their solidarity for a convicted man through a wordless gesture, it brings to mind a Faustian pact. Told through dance, text, song and live music, this is a fable told for any town at any time.


His and HersFilm2010

“A man loves his girlfriend the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Old Irish Proverb.From kitchens, living rooms, and hallways across the Irish midlands, His & Hers delightfully combines observation and charm to tell a 90-year-old love story through the voices of 70 women. This intimate gender and cultural snapshot explores a woman’s relationships with the men in her life—father, boyfriend, husband, son. Following sequentially from little girl to old woman, each character portrait is woven with the others into one perfectly crafted cinematic quilt.


Post SecretInternational 2005 - ongoing

An international project where people send in their secrets anonymously on a postcard. “Community mail art” is how founder Frank Warren describes it.


Dublin Dance FestivalDublin, IrelandAnnually, started 2002

A festival of contemporary dance. Each year different themes unite the stories told. In 2010 the theme was “Young people, old voices”. Dance is a very expressive way of storytelling.


An Post MuseumDublin, Ireland2010

The exhibition explores the influence of the Post Office in Ireland and offers an insight into the role played by Post Office people in the development of Irish society over many years. From stamps and stamp collecting to An Post's copy of the 1916 Proclamation and the little known story of the staff who were actually in the GPO on Easter Monday, the exhibition is a unique way to learn about the importance of the Post Office in Irish life.


MurmurDublin, Ireland2007

Explore [murmur] Dublin Docklands:Go for a walk: bring your mobile phone, and head for the green ears on the map.Find the green ear, and call the number on it.Enter the code on the sign to hear people's stories about the place where you're standing.[murmur] is an audio documentary which is collecting stories and personal memories about Docklands from older people as part of the Bealtaine festival.


Science GalleryDublin, Ireland2009The Science Gallery is a world first. A new type of venue where today's white-hot scientific issues are thrashed out and you can have your say. A place where ideas meet and opinions collide.


The NutcrackerRussia1891

In Western countries, The Nutcracker has become perhaps the most popular of all ballets, performed primarily during the Christmas season. In the United States, especially since the 1960s, it has transcended its origins as a mere ballet or piece of classical music, becoming a part of American tradition almost as much as the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Countless cities across the U.S. now stage the ballet at Christmas time, and new telecasts, video versions and interpretations of the ballet now appear even more often than before.


Ghost Bus TourDublin, IrelandOngoing

Let us put you at your unease on Dublin's oldest and best Ghostbus Tour. We will introduce you to the dark romance of a city of gaslight ghosts and chilling legends.

The bus itself is a unique attraction, it is a mobile theatre decorated in the gothic style and features a live storyteller who takes you on a spellbinding trip through Dublin. Once onboard, we take advantage of this atmospheric setting to spirit you away to a world of felons, fiends and phantoms and put you in the mood for being both charmed and spooked at the same time.


Evidence DollsDunne and Raby2005Evidence Dolls is a research project commissioned by the Pompidou Centre in Paris for the D-Day exhibition. The aim was to use hypothetical products as a way of exploring how one group in society felt biotech might impact on their lives. We focussed on young single women and their love lives as this provided a number of interesting perspectives on genetics --designer babies, desirable genes, mating logic, DNA theft. It is not intended to be scientific, but more a way of unlocking their imaginations and generating stories that once made public, trigger thoughts and discussions in other people.


Poetry Ireland - ReadingsDublin IrelandOngoing

Information on Poetry Ireland supported readings, launches and events around Ireland, as well as other writing events around the country.Browse the listings below or use the calendar to view what is happening on a particular date.This page will show events for the current month. For next month's events, forward-click on the calendar.Our events are scheduled two months in advance so please check back regularly for more upcoming events.


Street Artists - MimesInternationalOngoingA mime artist (from Greek "μίμος" - mimos, "imitator, actor"[1]) is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer. Miming is to be distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a seamless character in a film or sketch.The performance of pantomime originates at its earliest in Ancient Greece; the name is taken from a single masked dancer calledPantomimus, although performances were not necessarily silent.


TCD Debates in The PhilDublin, IrelandOngoing

Every year, The Phil invites luminaries from the worlds of politics, academia, business and the arts to address the students of Trinity College. In recent years, the Society has played host to guests such as renown actor Al Pacino, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, presidential candidate John McCain, actress Dame Helen Mirren, writer Sir Salman Rushdie and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.


Lash BackDublin, Ireland2007

Can you introduce yourself?Hello, we are Lash Back! Lash Back is a feminist collective and magazine based in Dublin Ireland. The group was initially set up in late 2007 by 3 women in Dublin. The group has slowly evolved and now encompasses approx 25 casual collective members, 6 organising members and an e-mail group of over 80 members.Can you tell us about the Lash Back collective?The Lash Back collective currently meets once every 2 months. So far, we’ve tried to provide a space for people who identify as women and feminists to come together and talk or do activities (such as making stuff or watching movies) in a safe environment.


Photo of the DayVarious LocationsMarch 31 1979 – Oct 25 1997

Photographer as Jamie Livingston took a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project “Photo of the Day” and presumably planned to collect them at some point — had he lived. He died on October 25, 1997 — his 41st birthday.After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence.


Feminist Walking TourDublin, Ireland2009

On March 8th 2008 over 150 people took to the streets to take part in the first Feminist Walking Tour of Dublin to mark International Women's Day. Following the enormous success of last year's tour, we are once again stepping out to tell the often forgotten stories of the Dublin women who have shaped the world we live in.


Give Up Your Aul SinsDublin, Ireland2001

More than 30 years ago, young Dublin children were recorded on a battered tape recorder as they gave their interpretation of stories from the bible. The story of John the Baptist, is told by a little girl with great passion and an obvious delight in the telling of it....


Tattoo Confidential . ComInterwebsOngoing

A website that collects the stories behind people’s tattoos.


Teen Diaries OnlineOngoingULTIMATE GUIDE FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Teen Diaries is dedicated to helping multi-cultural females (ages 13 to 22) transition into adulthood. From fashion to finance, each section of this E-mentoring site and developing talk show focuses on a particular issue that affects this unique population. It is educational, inspirational, and entertaining. It is supportive and non-judgmental. Featured celebrities and professionals talk about the issues that affected them as teens growing up in America. Teen bloggers from New York to Los Angeles contribute to the Diaries section that features their truthful depiction of teen life and appeals to the audience who identify with them. Without a doubt, Teen Diaries fills an ever-existent void in the framework of our youth.


this is not a shopDublin, IrelandFounded 2006

Thisisnotashop is an alternative, not for profit arts organization founded in January 2006 in Dublin, Ireland, dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists from both Ireland and abroad. From 2006 to December 2009 the gallery was located at 26 Benburb St, Dublin 7. In 2010 Thisisnotashop let go of the space to focus on organizing independent exhibitions for its artists in Ireland, New York, and Internationally.


ThreadlessChicago, USAFounded 2000Threadless is a community-based tee shirt company, with an ongoing, open call for design submissions.


Anita RoddickBorn in Sussex1942 - 2007

Dame Anita Roddick, DBE (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism.[1][2] The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries.


Richard BransonBorn in LondonBorn 1950

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British industrialist, best known for his Virgin Group of over 360 companies.At age 16, Branson had his first successful business venture, publishing a magazine called Student.[1] In 1970, he set up an audio record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s—as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.


NCAD Student GalleryDublin, Ireland2010

This year we will be establishing the NCAD Student's Gallery in the old games room space in red square. This is an idea that's been around for the past five or six years and is finally coming into fruition. The Student's Gallery will be a dedicated space for NCAD students to have continuous exhibitions that would be open to the public. It is our hope that the gallery will attain a high profile over the next few years as a showcase for exciting, new, young artists and designers. We hope it will draw people in from outside the college, giving our students valuable experience and exposure for many years to come.


Creative CafeDublin, Ireland2010

CFCP is delighted to announce the opening of a monthly Creative Café. Creative Café is an informal meet up and exchange platform for all creative people to present their work, provide an insight into various creative processes and share reflexions on their impact.

We would like to invite any creative practitioners and researchers in the arts area to contact us if they would like to give a short talk about their work, upcoming and/or past projects.


Exchange DublinDublin, IrelandOngoing

“Exchange Dublin” is both a statement of intent and an invitation to the city.Exchange Dublin is a new collective arts centre in Temple Bar, Dublin run entirely by young people and holding discussions, gigs, visual arts and performance. Most projects originate from the autonomous “Exchange Groups” that use the space as a hub for their activity. Representatives from these groups form the general Exchange Dublin Collective that programmes and coordinates events in the space. All work is voluntary and no one is paid.


Basic SpaceDublin, Ireland2010This is a open creative space for NCAD students.Create Work.Show Work .It is a 10,000 sqft warehouse with very few limitations (there are no costs and no need to turn a profit).We hope to create a space where work is made , exhibited and promoted. It is a space that can be used as a studio, gallery, movie theatre, muse, darkroom or anything else you can think of.Located just behind Vicar Street.


You Kiss By The BookDublin, Ireland2010

You Kiss By The Book is the shambling, endearing, pared down musical project of Simon Dowling. Having enlisted the micro-scene equivalent of a supergroup (featuring those for whom The Terriblesand I Heart The Monster Hero are the regular gig, among others), Simon recorded an album of winning simplicity live at his house. The result is Bear Leader, a limited edition vinyl released with a free CD enclosed, available at Road Records. The album’s on Hefty Horse records, an imprint that will be familiar to those who’ve attended the gigs Simon has put on in Anseo, upstairs in Whelans and elsewhere.


Stitch and BitchDublin, IrelandOngoing

The Dublin Knit Collective hosts Stitch and Bitch nights where people can come to do craft, share stories and bitch! The nights used to be on in PantiBar, info can be found on The Dublin Knit Collective website.


BauBikeKolding, Denmark2009

The BauBike was designed by a student at DSKD. The entrepreneurship was involved in creating and executing the idea, as well as exhibiting at Milan Design Fair 2009.


Help Me Help MeDublin, Ireland2010

This project at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2010 is described by the creator as follows:“I hate normal shop-shopping. I like charity shop, flea-market, car-boot sale shopping. So I am opening the Help Me! Help Me! charity shop, and I want you to come and rummage. Talk to strangers, rearrange the merchandise, haggle, browse, engage me in long chats about the weather and your ailments. I’m the charity. You can take my things; just give me something that will help me in exchange – a tune, some cake, your company, a cure for loneliness, 40 cent… Daily tea, cake and chat at 3pm. Please be generous, everything must go.”


O Connaill’s ChocolateCork, IrelandOngoingO Conaills Chocolates are a tradition chocolate makers operating in Cork City. The business sells chocolate products which are all handmade in Cork, as well as having a café.


TEDWeb BasedOngoing

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDxprograms, and the annual TED Prize.


DemeterNew York2009DemeterFL, Inc. is a Great Neck, New Yorkcompany that sells fragrances based on familiar, "everyday" scents, such as dirt, tomatoes, and chocolate chip cookies. The fragrances are intended to be an evocative, "idealized" representation of these scents, which Demeter calls "single experience fragrances“. This is in contrast to most traditional perfumes, which combine a larger range of scents to create more complex fragrances.This is an interesting example of a non-traditional entrepreneur enterprise, where the aim is to bottle and sell a very specific experience of an intangible feeling created by a certain smell.


Regional Assembly of TextVancouverOngoingThe Regional Assembly of Text was opened in late August of 2005 by Rebecca Dolen & Brandy Fedoruk. While attending the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, they collaborated on a number of projects and curated a series of book shows together.After graduating in 2003 they decided to put their minds & hands to work. The result of which, was their very own little store. Focusing on text as a theme, the store features many lovely things designed and built by them.


Mr. TypewriterOnlineOngoing

At MrTypewriter.com, we work hard to bring you yesterday's high tech machines ready for today's work load.With a typewriter from MrTypewriter.com you can rest assured that you have invested in a quality machine that has been fully tested and restored to once again provide many years of reliable service for today's wordsmiths.


Magnetic PoetryToronto, Canada2009

It all started with a song and a sneeze. Dave Kapell, founder of Magnetic Poetry, was suffering from writer's block while trying to compose song lyrics. To overcome this problem, he wrote down interesting words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, looking for inspiration. What he hadn't figured into this experiment was his allergies. One good sneeze and any progress was sent flying across the room. Dave decided to glue the words to pieces of magnets and stick them to a pizza tin. Then he got hungry and the now magnetized words made their way to the refrigerator door. Before too long, Dave wasn't the only one rearranging his would-be song lyrics. When friends came over, Dave noticed they started to move the magnets around, amusing themselves by writing the first magnetic poems.


LanewayDublin, Ireland2010

A social experiment that questions the possibilities of community in a mostly transient space. me&him&you were attracted to this unique location, and they invite you, the community, to re-imagine this laneway. From dawn until dusk for eight days of the festival – seating created from found objects, planting and music (directly influenced by laneway users) will inhabit this space. Bursting with vitality, activity and interaction – take a detour and visit The Laneway. For more information please visit www.meandhimandyou.com


Life WatchMark Gilroy2010

A project looking at possible positive interventions for heroin addicts.


LifesaverUSA?2010

LIFESAVER bottle uses a highly advanced ultra filtration system, originally developed for industrial applications. LIFESAVER bottle will remove bacteria, viruses, cysts, parasites, fungi and all other microbiological waterborne pathogens. It does all this without the aid of any foul tasting chemicals like iodine or chlorine.Whilst inventing LIFESAVER bottle I also invented FAILSAFE technology. In simple terms this means that when the cartridge has expired it shuts off, preventing the user from drinking contaminated water. Just change the cartridge and continue to use.LIFESAVER bottle has been designed to help save lives supplying people with clean pathogen-free drinking water. Treated with care and respect you can expect many years of trouble-free use.


Feminist Open ForumDublin, IrelandOngoing

fof is a new space for feminists to get together to share viewsand experiences, to discuss current political issues, and tostrategise and plan actions for change.

fof plans to meet monthly and is open to everyone interested infeminist politics and activism.

Fresh Perspectives, New Voices, Action


Greentree Mobile ShowersEngland2010?

An innovative, self cleaning shower system.All decontamination processes and products are fully bio-degradable and non-toxic to the long term aquatic environment. We believe that no one is exempt from environmental responsibility.


Safe and LegalDublin, IrelandOngoing

The Safe and Legal (in Ireland) Abortion Rights Campaign is of unique significance, as it represents the first major initiative aimed at moving forward on abortion in this country. Anti-choice groups seeking further regressive and unworkable responses to abortion have always led previous campaigns on abortion.Since the first Constitutional referendum on abortion in 1983, Ireland has changed: more women living in Ireland access abortion services and more women feel angry and frustrated that they have to travel to Britain and other countries to secure these services. The only thing that has not changed is the lack of courage and leadership demonstrated by successive Governments in dealing with abortion in a realistic and rational way.


The Toaster ProjectThomas Thwaites2009For nine months I've been trying to make an electric toaster, myself, starting from scratch. Travelling to disused mines around Britain, digging up raw materials, processing and forming them into a hand crafted pastiche of a product sold in Argos for the throwaway price of £3.94.

My quest is perhaps absurd, but the contrast in scale between the products we use and the industry that produces them also seems absurd. Massive industrial activity in the pursuit of additional modicums of comfort at lower prices - small trifles, like an evenly crispy piece of toast, that we quickly become accustomed too. However, I like toast, as well as many of the other trappings of 21st Century life. The laboriousness of producing even the most basic material from the ground up exposes the fallacy in a return to some romantic ideal of a pre-industrialised time. But at a moment in time when the effects of industry are no longer trivial in relation to the wider environment, the throwaway toasters of today seem unreasonable. The provenance and the fate of the things we buy is too important to ignore.


The Cloud ProjectZoe Papadopoulou2009

Developments in nanotechnology and planetary-scale engineering point to new possibilities for us to conform the global environment to our needs. These advances combined with a dream to make clouds snow ice cream have inspired a series of experiments that look at ways to alter the composition of clouds to make new and delicious sensory experiences. Using ice-cream as a catalyst for interesting dialogue, the project’s focus is to welcome people into a mobile space that sits outside institutions, letting new audiences experience and imagine emerging scientific developments and their consequences.

www.thecloudproject.co.uk


The Stock Exchange of VisionsOnlineOngoing

The Stock Exchange of Visions project was initiated to provide a platform for the world leading artists, sociologists, activists, scientists and others to share their visions about the future of our planet with a broad public and let them decide if either they agree up on their thoughts or not.


Carfree.comUSAOngoing

Cars and trucks can be replaced by technologies that were invented a century ago and are today fully developed: trains and street cars (trams). The comparatively few people using motor vehicles for their transport impose terrible burdens on their fellow citizens and do not even enjoy particularly fast transport due to the many other cars and trucks competing for space in the relatively narrow streets.No technical fix is going to solve the ecological and energy problems we now face. The same high quality of life can be extended throughout a city simply by making modest improvements in public transport and freight delivery systems at costs that are low in comparison to building new highways.This approach restores cities to their rightful place: the center of the human universe, where civility, beauty, and culture abound, in the commercial heart of the city. We must establish a systematic program of solving the world's problems by pushing cars out of the places they do not belong: our city streets.


coolpeoplecare.orgUSAOngoing

To some, making a difference means small, simple acts that can be done every single day. To others, making a difference means showing up to local events that make the world a better place. And to some other people, making a difference means hopping on board with a local non-for-profit and focusing your efforts on one issue. CoolPeopleCareis here to welcome all.

You want to change the world. You really do. But sometimes, things get in the way. You've got your career, your family, your friends, your future, and lots of other things to worry about. But these things aren't necessarily hindrances to giving back -they're assets.

CoolPeopleCare shows you how to leverage your world to change worlds. Give them five minutes and you'll see positive change in yourself, your community, and communities half a world away.

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The Hole in the WallDelhi, India1999

In 1999, New Delhi's physicist professor SugataMitra puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums of Kalkaji (New Delhi, India) and watches what happens. After seven years of rigorous measurements across the Indian subcontinent, he summarizes what he has learn into what he named as being a “a puzzle in four pieces”:

• The quality of education reduces with “remoteness”• Educational technology should be designed for and go to the remotest areas first• Learning is a process of self organisation• Values are acquired, doctrine is imposed

Groups of children, given access to shared, publicly accessible computers in playgrounds and other public areas, will teach themselves to use the technology on their own. This will happen independently of who or where they are.


We Are What We DoEnglandOngoing

We Are What We Do is a global movement that inspires people to use their everyday behaviour to affect big environmental and social issues.There are loads of small things we can all do everyday. We call them Actions. Little things like turning off the tap when you're brushing your teeth, taking your own bag to the supermarket or teaching your granny to text. They might seem small and insignificant on their own, but their effect can be massive. If we all do them regularly, we can have a huge impact on many of the environmental and social problems we are facing.


Homeless World CupWorldwideOngoing

The project started when two street paper founders wanted to find an international language to unite homeless people around the world. Held annually, the first cup was hosted in Graz, Austria in 2003. When the most recent tournament was held in Cape Town 2006 the event was watched by over 100.000 fans, uniting 48 nations and 500 homeless players. The Homeless World Cup exists to address the one billion people around the world without a home, a basic human need. Using football as a trigger, they inspire and empower people who are homeless and excluded to change their own lives. The feeling of belonging, working in a team, regaining a health oriented attitude towards life, self esteem and experience of fun is a powerful combination that sees 77% of players go on to find a home, come off drugs and alcohol, get into education, jobs, training, and repair relationships with friends and family.


They RuleOnline, USAOngoing

They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 500 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.


The Amazing ProjectNew YorkOngoing

The Amazing Project highlights worthwhile projects from amazing people doing amazing things to improve the world and connects them to volunteers (like you). The Amazing Project is a New York State non-profit corporation. Their goal is to foster a culture of hope by sharing the stories of people who are making a positive impact in the world and connecting potential volunteers and participants with accessible ways to get involved. These stories are shared through a robust website, regular email newsletter, special online projects, public exhibitions, printed publishing projects, and events.


The Bank of Common KnowledgeOnline

The Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal knowledge, as well as how to share it.The BCK's mission and meaning is to create, protect and expand knowledge, exchange and spread. To bring about re-evaluation into common knowledge. Their motivation is also to have individual and collective needs becoming more autonomous, and to somehow answer the general lack of resources for everyday issues. In short: urban survival. They look for alternative, cheap and affordable, even free ways to find answers to all sort of needs. They share practical or theoretical knowledge in all disciplines, from medical to crafts, to technology to civil rights.


Network 2012BritainOngoing

Network 2012 is a social enterprise. An online business and social network and events company with a mission to contribute to the end of homelessness by 2012, the year of the Olympics.Their aim is to contribute through encouraging social enterprises and business to network through them and pay a small membership fee, which they will use to provide bursaries for those currently excluded from the mainstream to start their own social enterprise. Doing what business needs to do but helping others in the process! When mainstream society looks outside of itself to the people on the fringes it seems to only look from a negative perspective and through the stereotypical lenses of benefit fraud, idleness, alcoholism and drug abuse. At Network 2012 their long experience working with people on the fringes, specifically in the homelessness sector tells us something completely different.


Play RethinkBoardgame2010

Welcome to the 'play rethink' network!'play rethink' is an interactive board game that brings groups of people together to:be creativegenerate ideas around sustainabilityraise awareness of environmental and social issuesencourage active citizenshippromote innovationhelp you rethink your products and servicesIt is ideal for design professionals, teachers, secondary and university students and people in the creative industries in general. It is suitable for ages 12+.


Wanna Start a Commune?USAOngoing

Wanna Start a Commune? is a project dedicated to bringing a communal lifestyle back to the forefront of American culture, and beyond.A commune is defined very simply as 'a community where resources are shared' (Wikipedia). We think the commune idea deserves a much broader audience. Sure, many commune experiments have failed. We say don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Let's learn and move forward. The commune is an idea too good to waste. The good news is that we're already turning towards each other more than ever before; for inspiration, for comfort, for help, for joy. It's a simple act to take that 'turning towards' and make it official. The act of starting a commune can be literal, or symbolic. Becoming more collective is the goal. Join with those around you and together decide how and where.


The School of LifeLondon, EnglandOngoing

The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living.We are based in a small shop in Central London where we offer a variety of programmes and services concerned with how to live wisely and well.

We address such questions as why work is often unfulfilling, why relationships can be so challenging, why it’s ever harder to stay calm and what one could do to try to change the world for the better.

The School of Life is a place to step back and think intelligently about these and other concerns. You will not be cornered by any dogma, but directed towards a variety of ideas - from philosophy to literature, psychology to the visual arts – that tickle, exercise and expand your mind. You’ll meet other curious, sociable and open-minded people in an atmosphere of exploration and enjoyment.


School of EverythingThe UKOngoing

Nobody likes being told what to do. School of Everything is here so you can organise your education however you please. Lots of people think it is lovely as you can see from these nice words and shiny awards. School of Everything lets you learn and teach whatever, wherever and whenever you want. Join the education revolution!


The Reanimation LibraryBrooklyn, USAOngoing

The Reanimation Library is a small, independent library based in Brooklyn. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists. The Reanimation Library seeks to assemble an inspiring collection of resources that will facilitate the production of new creative work and promote reflection and research into the historical, legal, and methodological questions surrounding the adaptive reuse of found materials. It strives to provide the necessary space and tools to allow these activities to flourish, and to foster a climate of spirited collaboration.


Think PublicThe UKOngoing

We are a social design agency that helps tackle big social challenges. We work with the public sector, third sector and communities.where we come fromthinkpublic was founded in 2004 by Deborah Szebeko. She got the idea for the company after volunteering as a project manager at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, where she experienced first-hand the impact design can have on improving the patient experience.thinkpublic has grown and now includes designers, film-makers, a positive psychologist, programmers, marketers, artists and anthropologists.


Creative PitchChicago, USAOngoingCreative Pitch is an organization which mobilizes the unused art supplies which organizations and people have lying around and sends them to schools in need of creative supplies.


UCD Equality SocietyDublin, IrelandOngoing

The University College Dublin Equality Society was established in 2005 by former members of the MSc in Equality Studies, run by the Equality Studies Centre in UCD. The Society has been active since then and received official recognition from UCD Students’ Union in 2007. The Society is active in organising many events, talks, workshops, and protests.


Guerrilla GirlsUSAOngoing Collective

A feminist art group which uses art, theatre and community action to represent feminist ideas and inspire debate and action.


BenrikThe UKOngoing

Benrik is composed of Ben Carey and HenrikDelehag, and constitutes the outlet for their creative output.

Benrik's mission is to remodel the current world into something more to their liking, adding idea by idea to the sum total of original thinking and inspiration.

This Diary Will Change Your Life is a recipe for permanent revolution in people's imaginations, encouraging them to reinvent themselves every day of their lives by following Benrik's instructions for lateral living. It has spawned a worldwide cult of thousands over the last six years.

Benrik also believe in sharing their surplus creative and business ideas, originally through a column in the Independent entitled "Free Ideas", now collected in book format; they also deliver a BenrikPitch every Monday in the Guardian newspaper.


Design Ignites ChangeInternationalOngoing

Creativity holds enormous power for fostering positive social change. Instilling this ideal in the next generation of creative professionals is core to Design Ignites Change, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio. This annual program promotes and encourages talented high school and college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create messages for, and solutions to, pressing social problems.

Each year, participating colleges, universities and high schools engage with their students to create work that addresses powerful social topics ranging from issues of diversity, homelessness, hunger and gun violence to scarce water resources, sustainability and endangered species. The students are encouraged to develop actual projects that are visible in, and beneficial to, their own local communities; projects that will stimulate thought, dialog, action and ultimately change.


Colour Me KatieNew YorkOngoing

Hey! I'm Katie Sokoler. I'm a freelance photographer and street artist living in Brooklyn.

Katie’s blog looks at her art as well as her involvement in improv everywhere.


Dropping KnowledgeInternationalOngoing

Dropping knowledge is a global initiative to support the free and open sharing of knowledge among the people of the world. Born out of the democratizing power of the internet, dropping knowledge employs advanced web-technology to empower the global public to ask the questions that matter to them and seek new solutions through community dialog.

A freely accessible Copyleft knowledge portal and dialog forum, dropping knowledge invites the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange viewpoints and ideas, and join the conversations around the most comprehensive database of social topics ever compiled.

invites you to question yourself and the world around you. Every time you ask yourself a question, a new dialogue begins…


PostCrossingInternationalOngoing

“send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!”

The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world. Why? Because, like the author, there are lots of people who like to receive real mail. The element of surprise of receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises - and who wouldn't like that?


Free Hugs CampaignWorldwideOngoing

Sometimes, a hug is all what we need.

Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.

In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal.

As this symbol of human hope spread accross the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign BANNED. What we then witness is the true spirit of humanity come together in what can only be described as awe inspiring.


Museum of Broken RelationshipsCroatiaMuseum of Broken Relationships A museum dedicated to broken hearts has been founded in Croatia. Authors of the concept Olinka Vištica and Drazen Grubišić decided to set up the museum after consoling friends over their failed romances.The Museum of Broken Relationships is an art concept which proceeds from the assumption that objects possess integrated fields - ‘holograms’ of memories and emotions - and intends with its layout to create a space of ‘secure memory’ or ‘protected remembrance’ in order to preserve the material and nonmaterial heritage of broken relationships. Unlike the ‘destructive’ self-help instructions for recovery from failed loves, the Museum offers every individual the chance to overcome the emotional collapse through creation - by contributing to the Museum's collection. The individual gets rid of ‘controversial objects’, triggers of momentarily ‘undesirable’ emotions, by turning them into museum exhibits, and thereby participating in the creation of a preserved collective emotional history.


Design Against CrimeLondon

Design Against Crime Research Centre

DAC is a socially responsive, practice-led research centre locatedat Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.


Design Can ChangeVancouverOngoing

Why did you make this site? Who's behind it?We are a studio in Vancouver called smashLAB. Over the past couple of years, we have tried to become more sustainable, but found it a cumbersome process. As we started to do more research, we felt it would be good to share our findings with others in the community. Additionally, when we started to consider our collective influence as designers, we thought it made sense to work together to lobby for better options.

The site was generated entirely pro-bono and it has no method of revenue generation. We simply felt that it was our responsibility as professionals to create this resource. We hope that you share this sentiment

and participate in the effort.


Nicholas ZambettiDesignerFascinated with the importance of electronic objects in our daily lives and how we become emotionally entangled with the abilities they provide, Nicholas is interested in exploring interpersonal relations as aesthetic experiences mediated by technology. Viewing interaction design as a craft, he is actively engaged in the design and implementation of tools for prototyping interactions throughout the design process.

An example of ‘no-tech’ interaction, the war table is intended to encourage neighbors in urban single-occupant dwellings to affect each other's space. Preserving such domestic compromises of cohabitation supports peripheral social connectedness.


Lovely as a TreeWeb Based

Welcome to Lovely as a Tree, the website that tells you everything you need to know to be a more environmentally aware graphic designer. We give you the low down on how your choices of design, paper and print impact upon the environment.We list the steps you can take to reduce your design footprint, we take you through the process of choosing a recycled or more sustainably sourced paper, and we show you what to look for when choosing a greener printer.You’ll also find lists of the UK’s most environmentally friendly papers and printers, web links to help make your office green, and case studies to inspire you.


Design Without BordersNorwayOngoing

Design without Borders use the designer's creative and analytical skills to solve challenges in developing countries. Using design in the development process leads to better living conditions, industrial business development and more efficient emergency relief.


Designers Against AIDSWeb BasedOngoing

Non-profit organization ‘Beauty Without Irony’ has launched the international project ‘Designers Against AIDS’ (DAA) in 2004 in order to raise AIDS awareness in the international media and towards the general public, more specifically towards young people in the industrialised countries using elements from pop culture (music, fashion, design, arts, sports, film, celebrities, etc).

HOW DOES DAA WORK?AIDS awareness project Designers Against AIDS -born in Belgium, but active all over the world- wants to reach young people by using their favoritecelebrities from the worlds of music, fashion, sports and art to raise their interest and curiosity, making them visit the website www.designersagainstaids.com, click on the links to local AIDS organisations and learn more about the disease.


Stockholm PrideStockholm, SwedenAnnuallyStockholm Pride is held annually. When Europridecame to Stockholm in 2008, even public transport had rainbows on it! I chose this festival as it is a great example of a whole city integrating to celebrate pride.


Citizen’s Advice Bureau IrelandOngoing

Citizens Information is an Irish eGovernmentwebsite provided by the Citizens Information Board. The site provides public service information for Ireland.


Arthur Guinness Day WorldwideOngoing

Established in 2009 during our 250-year anniversary, Arthur's Day is a series of events and celebrations taking place around the world to celebrate the life and legacy of Arthur Guinness and the much-loved Guinness® beer which Arthur brought to the world.Here in Ireland, last year the likes of Tom Jones, Kasabian, Estelle, Dizzee Rascal, Razorlight and David Gray joined us in raising a glass to Arthur and made Arthur's Day a day of legend.This year events will be taking place across Dublin and we have also added additional gigs in Cork and Galway to ensure the whole country is able to be part of this truly remarkable celebration.The line up of over 50 Artists and acts includes Snow Patrol, Paolo Nutini, The Magic Numbers, José González and The Maccabees.


I left this here for you to readUSA and Canada2008 - 2009

Between August 2008 and October 2009, we printed 40 issues of "i left this here for you to read." There were only 50 copies of each issue total, and never reprinted any issues. We then left these in public places (such as on part benches, on buses, in airports and dentists' offices...) for anyone to take--free of charge. So far, we've left our magazines in about 75 cities in the US and in Canada.


The SpireDublin, Ireland

The Spire of Dublin, officially titled the Monument of Light[1] (Irish: An Túr Solais) is a large, stainless steel, pin-like monument 121.2 metres (398 ft) in height, located on the site of the former Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street in Dublin.


Cork Capital of CultureCork, Ireland2005

On January 8th 2005 an extraordinary thing happened in Cork. It stopped raining. During a miraculous break in a horrible weather pattern, 100,000 people took to the streets to celebrate the beginning of Cork's tenure as European Capital of Culture.Kick-starting with that extraordinary weekend in January, the city celebrated its long-awaited year in the spotlight with an extraordinary programme of cultural activity spanning theatre and dance; architecture, design and visual arts; music; sport; film, media and sound; festivals; literature, publications and conferences.Across the year over one million people, seven times the city's population, attended official Cork 2005 events as local and international audiences turned out to experience the Cork 2005 programme.


Gumtree DublinWeb BasedOngoing

An online community with for sale sections, jobs, community groups and so on. A facilitator of transactions and interactions.


Open House DublinDublin, IrelandAnnually

Open House Dublin is Ireland’s biggest architecture festival, allowing citizens to explore the architecture of their city. Dublin buildings of all types and periods will open up their doors, with special tours by hundreds of professionals and enthusiasts, completely for free!


Undergraduate Research ConferenceDublin, Ireland2010

One of our project aims is to promote undergraduate research. We are currently focusing on developing resources for undergraduates to support their dissemination of research (Abstracts, Posters and Presentations). These resources are available within this website. We are also organizing a series of seminars and a conference for undergraduate research – further details of these are also available within this website.


ExperimentcityBerlin, GermanyOngoing

...experimentcity promotes a critical, cultural approach to urban community develpment, but perhaps more importantly, it highlights practical strategies for supporting sustainability experiments that are taking hold in dynamic, post-wall Berlin. experimentcity’s communications platform emphasizes self-organized re-uses of vacant land and buildings, such as ecological housing, alternative cultural centers and community gardening projects. By bringing attention to synergies found in combining idle spaces with the resourcefullness of civil society, experimentcityassists Berlin residents in pioneering new production and management methods for social space. Now such bottom-up efforts are winning support for their ‘informal planning’ methods, and innovative land-recycling groups are being recognized as partners in the City's development.


Imelda MayDubliner

Imelda May, born in Dublin and raised in the Liberties, may be an unknown name to some, but to many she is already a superstar. She is unmistakable both in her music (a fusion of surf guitars, blues and rockabilly that wouldn’t be out of place in a David Lynch film) and her style, with a solitary curl and shock of blonde in her jet black hair. In Ireland, her debut album ‘Love Tattoo’, which she recorded and released on her own label, has gone Triple Platinum. She has shared a stage with U2, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, Scissor Sisters, Lionel Richie and, most recently, the first lady of rockabilly, Wanda Jackson. And now, with the release of her new album “Mayhem”, she is about to go stellar.


Sarah MorrisseyDubliner

Sarah Morrissey from the Liberties was Miss Ireland in 2006. She embodies the spirit of Dublin in that she a very down to earth woman whose family run a butchers shop.


SDAADublin, IrelandOngoing

South Dublin Allotments Association (SDAA) is a voluntary association open to membership for all those who support allotments in South Dublin County.

SDAA's objectives are:· To represent the views and interests of allotment holders at South Dublin County Council (SDCC) allotment sites. · To campaign for more allotment sites in local communities. · To promote allotment gardening as a healthy and sustainable activity. · To cooperate with other bodies interested in promoting allotments.


Pyjama GirlsFilm

Pyjama Girls principally focuses on the lives of two charismatic inner-city Dublin teens, Lauren and Tara, as they roam the streets, sporting nightwear for daywear –a curious cultural (and purely female) phenomenon currently spreading the globe. In a series of intimate vignettes, we gain a vivid insight into their daily lives: the girls’ tenacity amidst the at times grim uncertainty that surrounds them and the oft-quotable bravado that rolls with it. Director Maya Derrington’s emphatic feature debut is the latest in a series of inspired home-grown feature documentaries, amongst them His & Hers and Colony, exploring an eclectic array of contemporary subjects. (Perhaps we’re entering a new golden age in Irish documentary filmmaking.) Crisply edited by Paul Rowley and featuring a delicious minimalist electronic score from Dennis McNulty, Derrington’striumph is to craft a keenly observed tour-de-force that, in the grand tradition of all great non-fiction cinema, challenges our way of seeing.


Meeting House Square MarketDublin, IrelandOngoing

Not just your usual seasonal Irish vegetable market, this rather elegant series of outdoor stalls sells slightly more exotic breads and vegetables than the norm. It also offers homemade Italian foodstuffs, mussels and wild Irish salmon. The produce tends to be organic where possible and the chocolates are handmade, so you know that this could be quite a pricey but worthwhile little jaunt!


Chester Beatty Roof GardenDublin, Ireland

The garden of the Chester Beatty Library is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone, hardwood, gravel and ornamental grasses. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point. The timber trellises around the garden's perimeter heighten the feeling of enclosure and reduce the sense of exposure we normally associate with a rooftop.They also provide a frame on which the climbing plants grow. When the garden has matured, the climbing plants will eventually provide a lush green wall enveloping the garden and giving the space of a soft edge. Windows break through the trellis in places to allow views of Dublin Castle and the city skyline. The south side of the garden is planted with scented herbs, trees and shrubs. In atmosphere and character, the garden is calm.It was designed as a contemporary Irish garden using natural and indigenous materials in a straightforward and refined manner.


Dubliner MagazineDublin, Ireland

Intelligent, amusing articles about culture, media, entertainment, bars and restaurants in Dublin.


GruelDublin, Ireland

Gruel restaurant is unique, and has been an institution in Dublin for the last 9 years,serving fresh food that is both nutritious and delicious. The restaurant offers friendlyand informal service combined with excellent value for money. For an early morning giant bacon sandwich to the very popular roast in a rollor a hearty soup for lunch through to a full supper menu Gruel cooks what you want,when you want it. Quick, relaxed and delicious.


We Are UsDublin, Ireland 2010

A series of outdoor public art works inspired by Dublin City.It is a tribute to the city: northside and southside, the visible and the secret, the good and the bad.The aim of the project is to raise money for the homeless of Dublin.The images were painted by graffiti artist Maser and feature words by musician Damien Dempsey.A number of limited edition screen prints of works from 'they are us' will be available in our online shop in the near future.All proceeds from the project will be donated to the Simon Community.


Georgian House MuseumDublin, Ireland

Georgian House Museum

Number Twenty Nine is Dublin's Georgian House Museum. Visitors take a guided tour from the basement to the attic, through rooms which have been furnished with original artefacts as they would have been in the years 1790 to 1820.

Number Twenty Nine Lower Fitzwilliam Street, was first occupied in 1794, during a time of great change and expansion in Ireland's capital. The first occupant was Mrs Olivia Beatty, the widow of a prominent Dublin wine merchant. Visiting the exhibition gives young and old alike a chance to experience what life was like for the fortunate who lived in such elegant townhouses, and the less fortunate who worked in them.


Cork Jazz FestivalCork, IrelandAnnually

The Guinness Jazz Festival is Ireland's biggest and most prestigious jazz event and is one of the most important events on Ireland's arts and cultural calendar.

This year some 1,000 musicians from 25 countries will entertain the fans in over 75 venues citywide. The main concert venues are the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork Opera House and the Triskel Arts Centre. The famous Guinness Festival Club at the Gresham Metropole Hotel offers world class jazz on five stages day and night ( daytime sessions have free admission) while the easy to find Guinness Jazz Trail offers entertainment in over 40 excellent pubs and clubs, most of it free of charge.


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