A hub for legislative theatre and creative civic practice.

• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions
• Democratic Innovations

an initiative aimed at recovering lost or undocumented visual memories using AI image generation.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions
• Generative AI

We are a research and design studio partnering up with organisations to build change through data, community, and arts.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Take selfies with surveillance!

• cities
• surveillance

• Artistic interventions
• Cameras

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

• trainings

• Artistic interventions
• Civic literacy

Free images that visualize our most pressing cybersecurity challenges and how we can solve them together.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Cybersecurity

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

• culture

• Artistic interventions
• Narrative tech

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions

The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.

• Climate action
• culture
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

A global, participatory memorial to biodiversity loss on our planet

• sustainability
• 2024 Webby Awards
• Life on land

• Artistic interventions
• Participatory memorials

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Artistic interventions
• Fellowships

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Campaign organizations

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities
• People Powered

• Artistic interventions

Exploring the fun and frustrations of nonprofit work

• Artistic interventions
• Nonprofit tech
• News and blogs

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The most popular entertaining gag site in Bangladesh

• Media
• Journalism
• Artistic interventions

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Artistic interventions

A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison

• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artistic interventions

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

Dissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.

• Artistic interventions

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work!

• books

• Artistic interventions
• Books

This is an audio/visual story exploring the sounds of Mexico City’s streets.

• noise

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Artistic interventions

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. We cultivate and facilitate critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.

• history
• place-based
• culture

• Artistic interventions

by Okki Berendschot

• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

The Empower Rangers es una creación animada pensada y ejecutada por RedesAyuda y el primero, de un grupo de ellos, es el Empower Ranger Azul.

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

• white collar crime

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

The Markup made a browser extension that restores search result pages to organic results.

• extensions

• Artistic interventions
• Decentralization

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• cities
• place-based

• Artistic interventions
• Archives

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

• Artistic interventions
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

The Open Datat Institute's art programme

• Artistic interventions

The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Digital literacy

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.

• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech