Photo: Peace Dots Project
Buffalo artist and urban planner Saira Siddiqui wants to highlight the good in her city through a community-based art project called the Peace Dots Project. It is collecting moments of peace, or random acts of kindness that have been experienced by the community, and tracking them on a map. "We are always mapping data. We are taking hard data about crime, health and wealth disparities. One day, I thought, 'why are we mapping these disparities. Where are all the peace dots at?'" In the end, she will have a visual representation of the City of Good Neighbors. People can submit their projects or random act of kindness on www.peaceprojects.com."It starts to change the narrative. It starts to allow people to really focus on the positivity, on the random acts of kindness, on the things that happen on the day-to-day. Things a little as a smile from a child or someone helping you cross the street."
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