Sunday, April 7, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
The Rio favela transformed into prime real estate
We will be at meeting Andreas (featured in the article) at his Hostel in Favela Vidigal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/23/rio-favela-real-estate
Olympic City
Link to current projects (in English) by the city of Rio in preparation for World Cup and Olympics.
http://www.cidadeolimpica.com.br/en/
Friday, February 15, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Mobility+ Youth
Very insightful presentation by Faustini. We will be meeting with him while in Rio...He is very invested in the neighborhoods around Avenida Brasil
video link here
Marcus Vinicius Faustini is a filmmaker, writer and theater director. He founded Project Reperiferia, the Free School of Theatre in the West Zone of Rio, the Nova Iguaçu Free School of Film and the Free School of the Words in Lapa. He was Secretary of Culture of Nova Iguaçu and Special Advisor for Culture and the Territory of the State Secretariat of Human Rights, and Superintendent of Culture and Society. He currently coordinates the Agency Network for the Youth and author of the book Affective Guide to the Periphery.
Favelas in Rio are Drawing More Tourists
From Rio Times Online, link to article here
Also, the Rio Times is a good source for news about Rio in English...
Also, the Rio Times is a good source for news about Rio in English...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A Beach/Pool 100 yards from Avenida Brasil
Link to Video here:
Rio's Piscinão de Ramos by Julio Bittencourt
"When most people think of beaches in Rio, images of the beautiful Copacabana or a sunset in Ipanema usually come to mind. But a few miles from these icons of Brazilian landscape sits an artificial lake not far from a polluted beach.
Rio's Piscinão de Ramos by Julio Bittencourt
"When most people think of beaches in Rio, images of the beautiful Copacabana or a sunset in Ipanema usually come to mind. But a few miles from these icons of Brazilian landscape sits an artificial lake not far from a polluted beach.
Piscinão de Ramos, or “big pool of Ramos”, is where thousands of people who live in the surrounding favelas, or slums, of Rio choose to go every summer. Julio Bittencourt, a young Brazilian photographer, was fascinated by its uniqueness. Over the last three years, he photographed the beach-goers of Ramos and was received with curious gazes and smiles.
“There are certain things that you only see in beaches in Brazil,” says Bittencourt. ”Cariocas (locals of Rio) have a very special humor, very unique. I think all the humor and irony involved in the images are probably the most ‘Rio’ part of the work. It’s there all the time and you’re just struck by it every time you go there.”
The simplicity of life also caught Bittencourt’s attention. “Most of those people live their everyday lives with very little,” he says. But when they’re in Ramos, “they can forget about work and their problems. It makes you think how small your own problems are.”
Bittencourt’s work entitled “Ramos” will be exhibited from Sept. 21 to Jan. 28, 2011 at 1500 Gallery in New York, which exclusively features work by Brazilian photographers."
Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/18/rios-piscinao-de-ramos-by-julio-bittencourt/#ixzz2JQ3yyw8A
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