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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer - Eve, 1896 [2499x2762] via ArtPorn

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Drop the “t”!  From statutes to statues for social  change

We may be very adept at advocating for changes in legal statutes to promote social change and tackle corruption. Yet how about dropping that second ‘t’ here and thinking more material: how could statues become tools for our efforts to instigate change? Here comes a wonderful idea from the Center for Civic Media at MIT:  the civic statuary project, a great re-think of how to make and deploy statues bottom-up rather than top down. Deployed strategically at the right places and times to hold authorities accountable this could make for very playful ambient accountability type of interventions.