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*Highlight

Week-Long Exchange Shares Sustainable Infrastructure Strategies in New York and Rio

By Ki'Amber Thompson • March 23, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Thursday March 16, in collaboration with Catalytic Communities, urban planning and architecture Masters students from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute’s Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development, City and Regional Planning, and Sustainable Environmental Systems—led […]

*Highlight

Collective Action Launches Community Improvements Through Artivism at Quilombo Camorim

By Adriana Gonzalez, Jennifer Chisholm • March 19, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, March 11, community members joined together to commence a weekend of awareness and artivism in Camorim, an urban quilombo in Jacarepaguá, an area in the West Zone of Rio de […]

#HousingWatch

‘X-Week’ Debates Small vs. Large Scale Sustainable Infrastructure for Water and Sewage

By Lisa Godde • March 19, 2017

Clique aqui para Português From March 9 to 14, Studio-X Rio hosted x-Week as part of the celebrations of its six-year anniversary. Organized in partnership with the Columbia Global Centers, which celebrates its four-year anniversary, the Museum […]

Tribal members engage in traditional rituals during the day, with the Maracanã stadium and old Indigenous Museum in the background
#EvictionsWatch

Aldeia Maracanã Urban Indigenous Community Reclaims Olympic Parking

By Lisa Hollenbach • March 6, 2017

Clique aqui para Português An intimate group sits on two wooden benches in a parking lot. In some spots the asphalt has been removed and there are a number of indigenous bamboo constructions in beginning phases. The afternoon sun […]

Photos by: Palloma Campello/ Dunas Filmes
#LegacyWatch

Amnesty International Launches Report on the State of Human Rights 2016/2017

By Emilia Sens • February 28, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Every year, Amnesty International releases a report on the state of human rights across 169 countries and territories. On February 22, at the Cine Odeon in Cinelândia, in Rio de Janeiro’s […]

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