Dear Ricardo,
Thanks for posting about your work with LabCEUs
It would be good to get a clearer sense of how we might help?
Your link provides a dizzying list of examples of projects being developed.
Please would you expand on perhaps 1 or 2 examples of creative
technology projects that have both an artistic and a social impact.
I think people would be interested to know about what happened, who was
involved, what they did, and what was achieved.
I'd also be interested to know more about your ambitions for the work.
cheers
Ruth
On 13/03/15 18:20, ricardo ruiz wrote:
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.
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