Clique aqui para Português BoreArt, a group of young residents in the Borel favela in Tijuca, North Zone, aims to turn a former space of crime into a community meeting point through art with their […]
On Saturday November 1, photographer Mauro Restiffe, architect and urbanist Manoel Ribeiro and architect Pedro Évora delivered engaging presentations on the subject “When are cities finished?” for the Travessias 3 art festival in Complexo da Maré. The […]
Clique aqui para Português Check out the complete Series of community media profiles here. Sixteen communities. 130,000 residents. 40,000 newspaper copies. These kinds of numbers demand a highly organized operational strategy, and that is just what Silvia Noronha […]
Clique aqui para Português Mothers in Complexo da Maré worry about their children’s idle time after they are released from school at midday. Sent home before lunch, and with a whole afternoon lacking structured activities, kids are in […]
Clique aqui para Português Um País Chamado Favela (in English, A Country Called Favela) by Renato Meirelles, president of Data Popular, and Celso Athayde, co-founder of CUFA, examines the accomplishments of favelas and their economic advancements, with analysis of informal housing and its economic power […]