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depression on participation

Monday, May 10th, 2010 Vote

world social forum
Ermínia Maricato is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design in (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de) São Paulo and a militant fighting for social rights – mostly in housing and urban issues.
During the WUF5 – the world urban forum in Rio de Janeiro – and the urban SOCIAL forum – the parallel to the oficial UNhabitat event – I had a talk with her about her depression on participation. She is angry about too much institutionalism slowering or filtering a real participation. “The people have to come back” she states asking for an independent movement by the people. We are suffering a participatory fever.

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¥€$ – urbanism

Monday, April 26th, 2010 Vote

Again we are going to talk about that topic MONEY and all these capitalist philosophies.

This video here is a mixture of
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a performance/protest of gringo que fala during the WUF5 in Rio de Janeiro who took place at the storehouses in the harbour zone.
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a video by the city hall of Rio de Janeiro with their proposition of the harbour zone based on PRIVATE money input into highrise buildings and use the outcome of this PRIVATE money into PUBLIC investments. I recorded it during the exhibition of the world urban forum in Rio de Janeiro.
(more information can be found Porto Maravilha – Propaganda Institucional da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro
on the My proposition dating from July 2005 is just offering an open re-use of the storehouses, since the urban pattern is actually quite nice in that area:

OF COURSE money for infrastructure is always a good idea and needed in that area, too. there are three main favelas in that area who would appreciate such an action.

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comments_carolina guimaraes, luana pinto coelho, julakim

Tags: Anti.Rain.Dance_campaign, capitalist, interaction, money, participation, porto maravilha, private investment, urban social forum, urbanism, WUF5
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