Soak It Up!

City Studies

Soak It Up!

Is There A Pattern?

Urban Investigations

Is There A Pattern?

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

The Water Underground

Urban Investigations

The Water Underground

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

2011

‘Policy for People poster-style’

Public Policy Lab

November, 10, 2011

The poster speaks to the audience for whom the information is most important — those who are under 18!

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‘Where Does Your (Convenience Store) Food Come From?’

Gilt Taste

August, 31, 2011

These students take the opportunity to really explore how this little corner of the city works… and what results is one of the smartest, most nuanced, and most fun documents on the subject we’ve ever seen.

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‘Who Is Shaping New York’s Subway Redevelopment?’

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August, 15, 2011

The project juxtaposes the fact that such a construction project creates jobs but there is a suspicious absence of ‘the public’ in MTA’s decisions.

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‘Fast-Tracked: Who Decides Where the Subway Goes?’

Urban Omnibus

August, 10, 2011

The group investigated how transportation planning works by talking to stakeholders, researching policy and financing, and pounding the pavement.

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‘We Seriously Love The Internet is Serious Business’

Detroit Digital Justice Coalition zine #3

June, 30, 2011

The film is instrumental in engaging people in disenfranchised communities who have been previously intimidated by the Internet. It is understandable by ANYONE from age 8 to 80.

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‘Know Your Lines’

Art Threat

May, 11, 2011

Who is drawing the lines? What does the shape of a district mean? And what does a good redistricting process look like? These are precisely the questions being tackled in Know Your Lines.

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‘Visualizing the Dangers of Toxic Brownfields’

The Dirt

April, 20, 2011

Middle school students went out and mapped the empty lots and then started investigating [them].

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Housing Court Help

Public Access Design

Housing Court Help

Voice Recognition

Urban Investigations

Voice Recognition

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

H2 Oh No!

Technical Assistance

H2 Oh No!

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Block Party

City Studies

Block Party

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Public Access Design

Language Rights are Civil Rights!