Dedicated to clever and innovative trends of art and design in activism.

Screening tonight at the Lucy Parsons Center is Our Bodies, Our Minds - a film about feminism, sex work, and freedom of expression. This hour-long documentary challenges views within feminism and encourages “perspectives on pornography, free expression, and sex work, without resorting to cheap exploitation.”

You can catch Our Bodies, Our Minds at the Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA, at 7PM. Phone (617) 267-6272, or e-mail lucyparsons@tao.ca for more info.

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Metropolis recently set forth clear guidelines for planning to minimize the environmental impact of design work.

Since there is still no perfect product, think of these as seven pieces of a Platonic whole, a set of best practices, and a possible road map for a new model of twenty-first-century manufacturing.

Since creating inherently means making a thing which may create or become waste, the goal is to limit the extent to which designers leave a lasting impression/footprint.  The “seven pieces of a Platonic whole” are:

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This simple and clever idea was hatched by Saatchi & Saatchi for the World Wildlife Fund. It visualizes consumption in a metaphorical yet poignant way; each time you use a paper towel, the world becomes less green.

Via Anamorphosis.

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In 1992, the Five College AIDS/STD Committee began a quilt project memorializing those lost to HIV and AIDS while giving students a way to personally respond to the crisis. More than 1,000 students addressed the statement “This is how I feel about HIV and AIDS” by creating  commemorative squares, which were sewn into panels of 45 squares each.

A collection of these panels will be on display from November 5-November 9th at the UMass Amherst’s Student Union Gallery in the Student Union Building. Throughout the week, gallery visitors can add their voices to the project by creating their own quilt square.

The panels on display were designed by UMass Amherst and Amherst College students between 1992 and 1998. Many were created in memory of people lost to HIV and AIDS; others express the feelings of those living withHIV. Some contain messages of hope, others of prevention. Collectively, they provide a look into the hearts and minds while giving viewers a historical perspective often lost today.

For more information, call Health Education department, (413) 577-5181, or the Everywoman’s Center, (413) 545-0883.

This event is free, wheelchair accessible and open to the public.

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The Groundswell Collective was recently hired to redesign the Friends of Africa International website. Friends of Africa International aims to promote human rights, social justice, democracy and good governance in Africa.

We are very excited about this opportunity and we look forward to contributing to their mission. Check back in the coming weeks for updates on this project!

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