Joining a renewed global movement, City of God is the first favela in the city of Rio de Janeiro to hold its own local community currency, called the CDD after the acronym for Cidade de Deus. […]
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 […]