Dear friends @netbehaviour, (this is an e-mail sent to bricolabs mail list, but i think it is also important on these list)
After 12 years of an oil-based economic miracle in Brazil, many things are changing coutry's landscape - a huge corruption scheme inside petrobras (brazil's oil company) and the federal government, the worst drought in history, specially in the southeastern region resulting in agribusiness crises, the hipervalorization of US Dolars in the last three weeks and a political Cul-de-sac between leftists and right wing politicians. In this scenario, since november 2014, we've started to develop a new extension program inside Federal University of Pernambuco in partnership with the Ministry of Culture of Brazil: LabCEUs - Laboratórios de Cidades Sensitivas. The aim of the program is to open public calls for artists, architects, makers, biologists, musicians, designer etc, to try and occupy federal community centres in 10 different cities of Brazil's countryside. These Community Centres, called CEUs - Centro de Esportes e Artes Unificados - are a cultural equipment built by the Ministry of Culture, with 3000 or 7000 square feet, and has an infrastructure of indoor sports area, a skate park, a social care centre, theatre, library and a public internet access space. Nowadays, there are 70 CEUs working in the country, and is planned to have 371 in total until end-2016. In common, these social equipments have a neighborhood with the lowest HDI rates in the country. The will of LabCEUs' program is to establish the occupy-makers-residencies as a break point to start community brico-labs development inside the internet access spaces of these 10 selected cities. Now, the proposals selected for the residencies had just started, and for the next 4 months, 15 makers-residencies program are held in these 10 labs (please, take a look in here <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qK6ZQ3-Ll_pLIvaMiMVkD_87EdayuZEVar4LmodquxI/edit?usp=sharing> for more info on the residencies going on and where). Our intention is to set-up a new turn of occupy-residencies in May, with 15 more makerspaces been held inside the communities. I think it is a great idea if we can find ways to exchange knowledge between this labs and many other community labs around the world, and I think netbehaviour list is the ideal place to start this conversation. Best from a warm and wet Recife, r. ----------- :(){ :|:& };: Unix Shell Forkbomb (2002)
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