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Digital City Planner Competition Winners

at 12:21 pm on October 19, 2009 • Leave a comment

Watch the winning projects by YouMedia teens, who were honored Oct. 8 at the United Nations’ World Habitat Day: Global Thoughts…Local Action.

Shani Edmond and Shannon Jackson: Art Inspires! 
Shani and Shannon use public art to build community and help stop the violence in their neighborhood.

Digital City Planner: Life1909 - Art Inspires! from Shani Edmond on Vimeo.

David Williams and Mark Blanchard: A Garden Grows in Woodlawn
The team transforms a vacant lot into a community garden.



Georgina Hill and ShaonDell Black: Cycles of Violence, a Manga comic.


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