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In Mindanao, Philippines, the roads are narrow and unpaved, with steep slopes that make it impossible for traditional four-wheel vehicles to pass. In the absence of traditional buses or taxis, Mindanao’s rural communities adapted a two-wheel motorcycle taxi, the habal-habal, to address a community’s mobility needs.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a location-based mobile art project designed to guide Mexican migrants to life-saving water sources while crossing the desert into the U.S. This digital lifeline continues decades of electronic civil disobedience, merging 1980s hacker activism with urgent border humanitarian intervention.

São Paulo’s known for having the worst traffic congestion in the world. This causes it to be very dangerous for the motorcycle couriers, yet they remain unseen and undervalued. But now the project, Canal*Motoboy, allows them to post their daily realities, forming a community and creating a navigation tool.

Border Memorial is an app that uses augmented reality, data collected from volunteers, and GPS data to overlay virtual skeletons in the precise locations where migrant deaths have been recorded in the Arizona desert. This project invites the public to learn about the area and the deceased migrants who have been overlooked and unnoticed.

The Health Wagon is a non-profit organization that operates in a fleet of large, specially customized recreational vehicles (RVs). The Health Wagon provides free health services to underserved populations of southwestern rural Virginia.