INTERVENTIONS

We design social interventions that engage populations in imagining and designing new solutions to social problems.

Explore DS4SI’s 20 Year Anniversary with

20 Questions for 20 Years

Questions help us challenge assumptions about everyday life and open portals into new imaginaries.

Explore THE 20 questions

The People’s Late Night

We know that late-night talk shows organize our attention to celebrities. People’s Late Night is inspired by artist Claudio Padro's work in Brazil where he pulled furniture onto the street and interviewed people from all walks of life. We explore the question: what happens when we create a talkshow for everyone else?

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Sunday Social News

Sunday Social News explored what changes when we consume, critique, and even produce news together.

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The Grill

Here was a simple gesture that functioned on a symbolic level to epitomize a system where violence could start over nothing more than “she looked at me wrong”, but also how the nothing was everything, their very reputation and safety being on the line in the instant of response.

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Artists in Residence

An architect worked with community members to design and build a beautiful 50’ bench at a bus stop. A multimedia artist (in residence at a corner store!) collaborated to create a dance that embodied the daily life of the street’s small shops and restaurants. Another worked with students to build a tri-lingual installation, “Our Liberated Land”. The list goes on. DS4SI and the Fairmount Cultural Corridor explored what could happen when a community had its own Artist in Residence.