Tag: Reviving

Reviving Street Sweeping in S.F.’s Russian Hill: A Bureacratic Challange for City Officials

Inthe 1980s, a bold move was made by the residents of Russian Hill, a San Francisco neighborhood, to end mechanical street sweeping. The inconvenience and expense of moving parked cars on street cleaning days were too much to bear. Eliminating the need for locals to go through the arduous process of...

Reviving Kachchhi and Indian Handicrafts using Design Intervention and Technological Innovation

After a short albeit formative stint in Corporate America, I moved back home and took the next year off to…Eat, Pray, Love my way through what was essentially a period of rest and (intense) retrospection to contemplate what I wanted my career trajectory to look like going forward. Then t...

Reviving Ryukyu: A Journey to Empowerment through Ancient Dance

Welcome to the inaugural post of TIDANA’s Medium blog, a space dedicated to the revival and celebration of Ryukyuan culture, traditions, and dance. I am Julia, a TV news reporter in Washington D.C., and together with Chie, we are the founders of TIDANA. Our journey as traditional Ryukyuan danc...