Sentences with phrase «public space challenge»

In a special Fresh Art International flashback, Dejha Carrington talks about the waterfront intervention she realized in 2016, through the Miami Foundation's Public Space Challenge.

Not exact matches

The agreement, announced early Friday, is part of a broader city initiative called the Chicago Broadband Challenge, which envisions free WiFi at public parks, beaches and other spaces.

Last year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the Chicago Broadband Challenge, which called for outfitting public parks, beaches and other spaces with free Wi - Fi.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

As part of its research and development efforts on in - situ resource utilisation, NASA has recently announced the In - Situ Materials Challenge which seeks proposals from the public on converting in - situ extraterrestrial materials into structural elements that would be useful for human deep space missions.

On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earth.

Convention highlights included a series of public debates on key issues and challenges facing Mars exploration and the future of the U.S. space program, as well as the final face - off of university student teams presenting designs for the Mars Society's International Gemini Mars competition.

Dressing for the heat is always challenging for me, even more so when every public indoor space seems to have a / c cranked up to arctic settings.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

The city will start growing again, and the district at that point will have to start shoving the co-located charters off our school district property because we need the space for our public school population,» he said, also noting the legal challenges involved in trying that.

After some hands - on challenges, including getting people in the room connected, I ended the workshop by discussing how people make time and space for Twitter in their practice: how they make a few minutes each day for some serendipitous professional development, how they find kindred spirits on the many chats out there, and how they think about balancing work and life, public and private.

This innovation brief from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) focuses on Summit Public Schools» co-development of Activate Instruction — a free, open, online site for curricula that integrates assessments, in conjunction with Illuminate Education and ShowEvidence, to allow students to progress at their own pace in one, integrated space.

Smart Schools Bond Act and Public Charter Schools The Governor's budget proposal rightfully acknowledges the challenge of providing space for children who will attend new Universal Prekindergarten programs across the state by including preschool facilities construction or renovation in his signature bonding initiative.

Schools are often challenged by how to address high levels of classroom and public space incidents and unwanted behavior, and how to recalibrate their discipline and support models to increase student efficacy and success in school.

By manipulating our expectations of what does and does not belong in these ostensibly collectively owned spaces, artists challenge what public spaces are, how they're made, and who they're made for.

By opening up her studio to the public and being present to interact with museum goers, Dawn challenges the notion of an artist's creative space as an insular and private environment accessible to a select few from the art world.

His work challenged the notions of public and private space, originality, authorship and — most significantly — the authoritative structures in which he and his viewers functioned.

However, across time they share common themes, challenging why and how public space, life, and activities are separated from private ones; how boundaries are drawn, built, and transgressed; and who is allowed to stand and speak, and where.

Founder of the non-profit Rebuild Foundation and the Arts Incubator in Washington Park — a vision he developed as Director of Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago — Gates's work responds to the challenges of space and the complexities of cities.

Evolving through a range of mediums such as performance, video, installation, sound, and literature, her works consider the fluid border between public and private space, and in so doing, challenge established conventions relating to the body, sexuality, power relations, and institutional spaces.

(English) The New Bench is a series of public art projects that challenge our ideas around parks, communal places and how we co-exist within these spaces.

Responding to notions of public space and the conventions of sculptural practices, applicants will be challenged to create an innovative and engaging proposal within an open critical framework.

Out of Alternatives, the first public initiative by CPNY will examine the ways in which small - scale organizations are perceived and understood by audiences, artists, and funders; identify the challenges of operating in today's climate; and revive discussions of obstacles and inequalities which have persisted since the rise of the alternative space.

Aceti explained that Kuball had been chosen because of his artistic practice which, spanning over 40 years, has faced up to the challenges of artworks in public spaces and uncomfortable social themes and issues.

Featuring essays and unpublished texts by critics in contemporary and media arts, including Joan Fontcuberta, Derrick de Kerckhove, Suzanne Paquet, Fred Ritchin, and David Tomas, the publication was designed to challenge a re-examination of what photography is today, in a time when communication and transmission of visual data in cyberspace, the boundaries of virtual reality, and the Internet as a global public space proliferate images and reflect an imaginal reshaping of the world.

Themes addressed include the appropriation of public space by private interests and the challenge to corporate globalisation by politicised artistic practice and guerilla protest movements.

Terrain Exhibitions founder, Sabina Ott says the Public Art Residency allows emerging Chicago curators to find site - specific work that challenges the space between public and private, decoration and function, figure and gPublic Art Residency allows emerging Chicago curators to find site - specific work that challenges the space between public and private, decoration and function, figure and gpublic and private, decoration and function, figure and ground.

Part of the challenge has been to develop small, intimate collages into large scale works, and to retain a sense of the personal in a public space.

At the William Penn Foundation, a leading philanthropy with an endowment greater than $ 2 billion, she was responsible for numerous initiatives addressing social and environmental challenges in America's fifth largest city and for designing programs in education, public space, the arts and the environment.

The works explored narratives of belonging, public space, and nostalgia, challenging what it means to belong to a community and our connectedness to shared memories of a neighborhood.

Buren has continued to use stripes of fixed width, alternating between white and colour, in a huge variety of different contexts and media including paper, fabric and flowers to create dramatic and challenging interventions and installations in public spaces and museums around the world, including Les Deux Plateaux in 1986, a huge and controversial installation in the classical courtyard of the Palais - Royal in Paris.

Sleepwalkers was both inspired by, and offered in opposition to, the densely built midtown environment; it integrated itself onto the surfaces on which it was projected, and it challenged viewers» perceptions of architecture and public space.

Neto uses space to explore volume and gravity, creating installations that break down barriers between works and the general public — challenging traditional pre-conceived ideas on how art should be viewed.

Via their curators, these museums seek to simultaneously educate the public, monetize their audiences, adjust the lens of history, challenge three dimensional space, and honor their selected artists — no small feats.

2016 Fall Solos 2016 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA (Juried, solo) 2016 Scenes for Empty Rooms Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Philadelphia, PA 2016 Early America School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD 2015 Wind Challenge 1 Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA (Juried, solo) 2015 Three Museum Objects Göcseji Museum, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary 2014 On This Site NAPOLEON, Philadelphia, PA 2012 The Factory and After The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA 2012 The Practical Romantic Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2012 After the Architect Has Gone Public Space One, Iowa City, IA 2010 Vertigo Waterloo Center for the Arts, Waterloo, IA 2009 Interregnum (1815 - 1969) Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY 2008 The X-Prize and the Heroic Theory of Invention Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY 2007 The Inspection Stations Project Unit B Gallery, Syracuse, NY

It's so important that we have more female artists around the world using their creative voices in public spaces, especially when they are sending messages that challenge existing norms and cultural boundaries like what Frances is doing.

Taken as a whole, the works on view «challenge perceived notions of what constitutes an exhibition space, a public, an artwork itself,» according to the gallery.

Oslo's vice mayor of culture and sport Rina Mariann Hansen commented: «By unfolding in public spaces, the biennial will activate the city and merge with its daily life in a way that will inspire and challenge both the art and its audiences.»

After «Art Gym», a sort of art workshop conceived by Tate Collective Liverpool in partnership with Assemble in 2016, and «O.K. — The musical», by Christopher Kline, which turned Tate into a community theatre in 2017, this is the third exhibition of Tate's «We Have Your Art Gallery» series, which seeks to challenge conventional behaviours in public and gallery spaces.

From large - scale collaborative civil disobedience actions taking place on the streets, to the slow dissemination of PublicAccess sculptures which happen to open bus shelters around the world, to a gallery practice that illuminates the inner machinations of advertising content and persuasion, Seiler's practice attempts to challenge the commercial discourse that monopolizes public space while cultivating engaged citizenship.

, the conversation will expand to address the challenges and possibilities around exhibiting and curating sound art for museums, public spaces, and beyond.

Together, in their radical openness to interventions of site, audience, and context, the works on view challenge perceived notions of what constitutes an exhibition space, a public, an artwork itself.

She points out that most people associate mosaics with representational art in churches, on ancient Roman floors, and in other public spaces created by tradesmen or craftsmen — a perception that she and other modern mosaicists delight in challenging.

These themes also clearly drove the creation of Stelen (Columns), a layered, complex, original, and utterly fascinating work from a relatively young San Francisco - based artist, and raises challenging questions about the transformation of sacred spaces of memory and atrocity, the shifting definitions of public and private space, and the uncomfortable commingling of sex, desire, and longing that has transformed the Holocaust memorial, for some, into a gay cruising ground.

It reopened to the public in September 2007 as the London home of the Zabludowicz Collection, its historical and layered architecture providing a rich and challenging space for the presentation of contemporary art.

Inspired by similar events in Europe, the challenge requires the design and construction of two small structures, to be placed in a public Vancouver space to create awareness and demonstrate the benefits of high - performance buildings.

Participants challenged the government's vagueness about the park's future as well as its plan to have a private company manage the space, while members of the public floated the idea of enlisting trained students to serve as park rangers.