Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Museu de Favela (“Favela Museum”) Contact: Website | Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2008 Community: Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho (South Zone) Mission: To transform the favelas of Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho into a monument commemorating […]
Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Teto Verde Favela (Green Roof Favela) Contact: Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2014 Community: Parque Arará, Benfica (North Zone) Mission: To mitigate the urban heat island effect and purify the air with […]
Clique aqui para Português Brazilians voting in the presidential run-off election tomorrow, Sunday, October 28 are presented with a choice between two candidates with very different policies on housing and upgrading in favelas and security […]
Clique aqui para Português Peneira—a creative industry organization that works with artistic interventions in public spaces—is organizing a series of debates with candidates for the positions of federal and state representative as part of a […]
Clique aqui para Português “The favela is not just a place,” explains Ricardo Rodrigues of Cerro Corá, in Rio’s South Zone. “It is an idea–of deconstructing life, of resilience, of understanding oneself as part of […]