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‘The House Was Knocked Down, Penha Was Not’: Making Permanent the Memory of Vila Autódromo

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Jiselle Steele • November 15, 2017

Clique aqui para Português “The house was knocked down, Maria da Penha was not.” It was with this phrase, repeated numerous times in a video projected on the wall of the Urban Studies House, that a […]

Favela Culture

The Maputo-Rio Connection Part 3: Culture and Memory Across the Atlantic

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Rachel Brabbins • November 8, 2017

Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a three-part series on the connections between Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Maputo’s caniços, focusing on history, land regularization, and culture. The first article in this series drew […]

#EvictionsWatch

‘The Struggle Has Just Begun’: Vila Autódromo Evictions Museum Presents Its Strategic Plan

By Cerianne Robertson • September 25, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, September 19, a team of museologists and Vila Autódromo residents presented the Museological Plan for the Evictions Museum, an open-air territorial museum that was created in May 2016 to […]

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Social Museology in Vila Autodromo: A New Way of Thinking About Museums

By Chloe Villalobos, Claire Jones • May 25, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Fighting to continue to make space for often-silenced voices, the Evictions Museum, Vila Autodromo and the Network of Social Museology of Rio de Janeiro partnered to offer a three-day course entitled “Social Museology: Poetics […]

Vila Autódromo residents celebrate
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National Historic Museum Receives Archives Documenting Vila Autódromo’s Fight Against Evictions

By Chloe Villalobos • May 21, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Emotion and excitement filled the Gilberto Gil auditorium at Rio’s National Historic Museum (MHN) this past Thursday, May 18 on International Museum Day as the museum received Vila Autodromo’s archive of […]

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