IFEP's four core initiatives all are internationally crowdsourced, providing vehicles through which people around the world can express their ideas and exercise their imaginations. IFEP is working to ...
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1. ERECT A GLOBAL SYMBOL OF FREE EXPRESSION, the world's first iconic work of public art symbolizing free expression. It will stand at the one of the most beautiful locations in America: The confluence of three rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It will employ cutting-edge technology so that it can programmed by artists anywhere to appear as almost anything — from the Eiffel Tower to falling rain. And it will generate renewable energy.

2. BUILD A MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS in a vast, historic former newspaper pressroom at the front entrance to Pittsburgh featuring a food hall, coffee stands, artisan stalls, artworks, musical and theatrical performances, art projections — an explosion of expression.

​3. INVENT NEW EDUCATIONAL TOOLS that will be sprinkled throughout the Marketplace and consist of interactive displays, e-games and robots that entertain while driving home the elemental importance of free expression. Some will provide ways to immediately take action on behalf of writers, journalists, artists, musicians and filmmakers who are being threatened or persecuted. These tools will be road-tested in the Marketplace and then made available for the use of teachers and advocacy organizations everywhere.

​​4. SUPPORT ARTISTS BY COMMISSIONING ORIGINAL WORKS that will be displayed and sold in the Marketplace, online, at popup exhibits and elsewhere. One goal is to make the Marketplace financially self-sustaining, with revenues from artwork sales, other retail sales, event rentals, performances, beverage and food sales, memberships and other sources.