Our team spent two years listening to homeless New Yorkers. This website aims to summarize our findings and push forward sensible reforms that we developed alongside our homeless neighbors.

• homelessness

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.

• Airbnb

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

A campaign leveraging personal stories about Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act to defend it from legislative attacks

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Data map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

• air quality
• radiation

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

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
• Artificial Intelligence

The resistance is local—welcome! Type in your zip code to find local, independent Indivisible groups in your area that have agreed to organize according to Indivisible’s principles. Come prepared to make plans for action and meet others who are working to resist Trump’s agenda. Register a group

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

• census

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

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

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

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
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

A Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice

• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns