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NEW LIFE CANCUN Call for Proposals

July 7, 2010newsActivists, Artistic Experimentation, Climate Change Summit, Climate Disasters, Co2 Emissions, Copenhagen, Fundraising Efforts, Hospitality Project, Hurricanes, Low Budget, New Ways, Platform Artists, Production Budget, Public Spaces, Research Questions, Social Architecture, Test Field, Tourism Sector, Travel Accommodation, Wooloo

Call for Proposals

Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in NEW LIFE CANCUN. This experimental hospitality project will take place during the UN Climate Change summit (COP 16) in CancÃºn, Mexico from 29 Nov – 10 Dec 2010.

In continuation of Wooloo’s NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival – in which we secured housing for more than 3.000 activists coming to the Copenhagen summit – NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in the area of CancÃºn, infamous for its vulnerability to climate disasters (mainly hurricanes), as well as for the high-CO2 emissions associated with its tourism sector.

Utilising this meeting of hosts and guests in Cancun as our exhibition platform, artists and activists are invited to explore its social architecture and suggest work proposals of an awareness, educational and/or practical-action nature designed around the topic: â€œNEW WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHERâ€.

Up to five artists will be selected for participation and will get all travel, accommodation and production costs covered by Wooloo. Proposals must include a detailed budget. As fundraising efforts are still ongoing, we do not yet know the size of our final production budget. However, it wont be large – so please be aware that your project must be able to be realized in a low-budget manner!

The deadline for work proposals is Thu 1 August 2010.

Please direct all research questions to contact[at]wooloo.org

NEW LIFE is an ongoing series of works focusing on social and artistic experimentation. Staged by Wooloo and taking place in institutions and public spaces worldwide, NEW LIFE aims to be a test field for new ways of living together on our planet.

NEW LIFE CANCUN is a collaboration between Wooloo.org and the Mexican climate change collective Carbonding.

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WOOLOO.ORG – NEW LIFE CANCÃšN

April 26, 2010newsActivism, Activists, Climate Change Summit, Climate Disasters, Co2 Emissions, Continuation, Copenhagen, Fundraising Efforts, Hurricanes, Image Credit, Interventions, Low Budget, New Ways, Ngo, Platform Artists, Production Budget, Research Questions, Social Architecture, Tourism Sector, Wooloo

Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in NEW LIFE CANCUN.

This experimental hospitality initiative intends to promote and facilitate participation during the UN Climate Change summit (COP 16) in CancÃºn, Mexico at the end of 2010 (Nov. 29th â€“ Dec. 10th).

In continuation of Wooloo’sÂ NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival – in which we secured housing for more than 3.000 activists during the Copenhagen summit – NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in the area of CancÃºn.An area infamous for its vulnerability to climate disasters (mainly hurricanes), as well as for the high-CO2 emissions associated with its tourism sector.

Utilizing this meeting of hosts and guests in Cancun as our exhibition platform, artists and activists are invited to explore its social architecture and suggest work proposals of an awareness, educational and/or practical-action nature designed around the topic: â€œNEW WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHERâ€.

The deadline for work proposals is JULY 1st, 2010.

Please direct all research questions toÂ contact@wooloo.org

Proposals must include a detailed budget. As fundraising efforts are still ongoing, we do not yet know the size of our final production budget. However, it wont be large – so please be aware that your project must be able to be realized in a low-budget manner!

NEW LIFE CANCUN is a collaboration between Wooloo.org and the Mexican climate change collectiveÂ Carbonding

Image credit:Â Stephanie Claverie

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APInews: MIT Donates Its Armadillo to Side Street Projects

June 11, 2009newsArmadillo, Boston, Collaborative Art Project, Fema, Hurricanes, Katrina, Louisiana State Museum, Rainwater Catchment System, Rita, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Shell, Side Street Projects, Slide Show, State Museum, Temporary Housing, Trailer Project, Trailers, Vertical Gardens, Visual Arts Program, Washington D C

MIT’s Visual Arts Program donates its Armadillo trailer to Pasadena’s Side Street Projects in an upcoming ceremony at Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. The handover event is June 18. The Armadillo trailer is the result of a year-long collaborative art project, the MIT FEMA Trailer Project, in which faculty and students transformed a surplus FEMA trailer into a “green” mobile composting center with vertical gardens, rainwater catchment system, permaculture library and indoor multipurpose space. The trailer has been dubbed the “Armadillo” for its ribbed retractable shell. It was originally one of thousands of trailers purchased by FEMA for temporary housing in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Side Street Projects will take the Armadillo on a tour to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Louisiana State Museum. (Slide show at http//www.sidestreet.org/armadillo.)

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