Team

→ Equipe curatorial

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  Carolina Piai Vieira

  Curator

  Researcher at Cartografia Negra collective and educator at Observatory of Human’s Right Project in Schools, from the Center for the Study of Violence of the University of São Paulo (NEV-USP). Graduated in Social Communication – Journalism, was also a student at African Studies Center at USP. She worked as a journalist at ARTE!Brasileiros and Vaidapé’s Magazine. She was a digital content producer at Theater’s Cooperative of São Paulo. Post-graduate student in Social History, at University of São Paulo.

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  Larissa Francez Zarpelon

  Curator

  She is an architect and urban planner, with a PhD from FAU-Mackenzie and researches the relationships between architecture, urban landscape and public space in Latin American cities. Professor in the subjects of Architectural Design – Urban Intervention, Urban and Landscape Design and Course Conclusion Work at Universidade Paulista. In 2020, she joined the articulation and formation of Chapa 1 CAU + Plural for the CAU elections and, in 2021, she joined the Council of Architecture and Urbanism (CAU/SP) as an alternate advisor.

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  Louise Lenate Ferreira da Silva

  Curator

  She has a degree in architecture and urbanism from the Architecture and Urbanism School of São Paulo University (FAUUSP), a researcher of race relations at the Laboratory for the Study of Race and Urban Space (LabRaça) of the same institution and active in the field of cultural heritage through Vila Maria Zelia. She was an intern at the Department of Historical Heritage of the São Paulo Municipal Secretariat of Culture (DPH) and was part of the Heritage Visits program at Sesc Pompéia as a heritage educator. She is a lover of music, the street and memories, incorporating his sound research into his readings about the spaces experienced.

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  Luciene Gomes

  Curator

  Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, PhD in Occupational Therapy by the Postgraduate Program in Occupational Therapy at the Federal University of São Carlos, she is currently a professor at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia, at Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Energy and Sustainability and Assistive Technology and Accessibility Engineering. She is a researcher at the Study and Research Group on Accessibility, Body and Culture at the Federal University of Sergipe and at the Architecture and Accessibility Group at the Federal University of São Paulo, coordinator of the Pipoca e Paisagem Extension Project at the Federal University of Goiás – Regional Goiás/Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and columnist for Reação Magazine.

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  Pedro Cardoso Smith

  Curator

  Architect and urban planner with Specialization in Housing and City from Escola da Cidade and Master’s from Universidade Mackenzie. Worked at the Municipal Housing Secretariat of the Municipality of São Paulo with the upgrading of slums – especially Paraisópolis – and in the current Strategic Master Plan (Special Social Interest Zones team). In the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of the Municipality of São Paulo, he was a member of the team responsible for supervising, monitoring and promoting cultural activities in the periphery, with the VAI (Valorização de Iniciativa Cultural) and Points of Culture programs. He is currently a professor at the Open University for the Environment and Culture of Peace and at the Universidade Paulista, where he teaches the Architectural Project for Collective Housing.

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  Pedro Vinícius Alves

  Curator

  He is a researcher for the Cartografia Negra collective, worked at the Secretariat of Culture of the State of São Paulo in 2014 and 2015, assisting in the production of the VII Festival da Mantiqueira (2014) and the VII International Seminar on Public and Community Libraries. She published a book of poetry, called “Caderno Negro”, as a member of the Cartografia Negra collective, participated as a trainer in Cultural Cartography in the program for training monitors at the Casas de Cultura, lectures, activities in schools and the Voltas Negras, which the collective performs monthly since 2018.

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  Raíssa Albano de Oliveira

  Curator

  She is a black woman, an anthropologist and educator, an African Womanist with additional training in the areas of fine arts, photography and philosophy. Her research seeks to develop paths for education in relation to peoples of the African diaspora, cities and poetic subjectivities. She is the creator and researcher of Cartografia Negra collective. She is a monitor of the Cities in Dispute postgraduate course at Escola da Cidade. She was a trainer in the Jovem Monitor program (CIEDS) and is Research Coordinator at Instituto Gilberto Dimenstein.

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  Sabrina Fontenele

  Curator

  Director of Culture of the Institute of Architects of Brazil – São Paulo Department (2020-2022). Architect and urban planner, with master’s and doctorate from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). In 2019 she completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Campinas, when she wrote a book on housing, gender and modernity. Author of the books “Modern buildings and the urban layout in downtown São Paulo” (2015) and “Restoration of the USP Medical School: studies, projects and results” (2013). She was a researcher at the Cultural Preservation Center of the University of São Paulo (2012-2018), where she also worked as scientific editor of Revista CPC and as curator of the exhibition Tempo das Construções (2013-2014). She has collaborated since 2018 as a teacher at Escola da Cidade where she is Research Coordinator, since 2020.

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  Thiago Sousa Silva

  Curator

  Afrocentric writer, visual artist and comic book artist. Educator and researcher of Medu Neter (Hieroglyphs, the writing system of ancient Kemet / Egypt) by the institution Kasa de Maat. Graduated by master Anika Osaze (Nefer Ka Maat) from Shrine of Maat, New York. Researcher and Educator of the scientific, cultural and spiritual traditions and technologies of the ancient North-East of Africa. Graduating in Geography Degree at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology campus São Paulo (IFSP), carrying out research on the use of comics of his authorship for teaching Geography in Basic Education.

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  Viviane de Andrade Sá

  Curator

  An architect and artist, she is a PhD candidate in Project, Space and Culture at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo and investigates the processes of visibility and erasure of bodies in city spaces with the project "Corpos Visíveis, super-exposure as a process of social and spatial erasure in the contemporary city. She has a master's degree in Visual Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo in the area of Visual Poetics with the project "Construir com Corpo, o corpo fragmentado como dimensão do espaço". She graduated in Architecture and Urbanism at the São Carlos School of Engineering at the University of São Paulo. She is a substitute councilor at the Architecture and Urbanism Council (CAU/SP). She teaches at the Paulista University and at the Catholic University of Santos in the disciplines of plastics and design.

→ Coordination of the 13th international architecture biennale of são paulo

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  Karina Silva de Souza

  Coordinator

  Architect and urban planner, graduated from the School of Architecture and Urbanism at USP (FAUUSP), with the final paper “What is Heritage? An essay about valuation in downtown São Paulo”. She is currently taking the lato sensu post-graduation course "Cities in Dispute - Research, History and Social Processes", at Escola da Cidade (São Paulo - SP) and "Cultural Management: Culture, Development and Market", at Senac University Center. She studies heritage, culture and the city in Latin America. She worked as an educator and production assistant at the Museu Brasileiro de Escultura e Ecologia (MuBE). She was also a production assistant at Casaplanta.

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  Gabriela Duarte Navajas

  Assistant Coordinator

  Architect and urban planner, graduated from Escola da Cidade (São Paulo - SP) in 2020, where she also attended the postgraduate course "Cities in Dispute - research, history and social processes" (2021). She did a year of undergraduate-sandwich at the University of Bologna (Italy) between 2014-2015, through the Science without Borders program, as a Capes scholar. She has professional experience as an expographic architect and graphic designer in the exhibition "Artacho Jurado in the Design of the City" (2021) and as assistant curator and organizer of the XVI International Seminar Escola da Cidade (2021), besides interning at Kiko Farkas/Máquina Estúdio (2020), Escola da Cidade's Publishing House (2019), Artigas Studio (2018) and BAÚ (2017-2018).

→ Interns

• Helena Ramos

  Design Intern

• João Palazzo

  Design Intern

• Leonardo Gomes

  Coordination Intern

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  Danilo Hideki

  Institutional Relations

  Architect graduated from FAUUSP in 2009, he worked with public and restoration projects until 2010 with Prof. Dr. Helena Ayoub Silva, also collaborating with architects such as Julio Katinsky and Paulo Mendes da Rocha. In 2011, he worked with social interest housing alongside architects Eduardo Ferroni, Pablo Hereñu and Marcos Acayaba. From 2012 to 2018 he worked in the office of architect Isay Weinfeld, where he developed projects for residences, restaurants, residential buildings, corporate and interiors. He currently works in his own office and is Director of Institutional Relations for IABsp.

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  Gabriela de Matos

  Co-president

  Architect and urban planner, she graduated from FAU at PUC Minas in 2010 and specialized in Sustainability and Management of the Built Environment at UFMG. She is founder of the project Arquitetas Negras, which maps the production of black Brazilian architects. She researches structural racism and its influences on urban planning, and contemporary architecture produced in Africa and its diaspora. She signs the editorial of the magazine Arquitetas Negras vol.1, and is currently 1st vice-president of IABsp.

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  Mariana Martinez Wilderom Chagas

  Education Director

  She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). She is a bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism (FAUUSP, 2009) and has a Master and Doctoral degrees from the same institution (2014). She was a Visiting Researcher at TU Delft (2018) and is an associate researcher at the Critical Thinking and Contemporary City Research Group (PC3) at FAUUSP. Her research interests involve the themes of theory and criticism of modern and contemporary architecture; architecture and contemporary city in Latin America, and educational architecture. She is co-author of the books “Social Urbanism in Latin America” (Springer, 2019) and “Marcenaria Baraúna: Furniture as Architecture” (Olhares, 2017). She has worked in several architecture firms in São Paulo and since 2013 runs her own studio.

→ Guest artists

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  Arquitetura na Periferia

  A non-profit initiative that brings together and empowers women to independently renovate and build their own homes through a process of technical advice.

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  Coletivo Coletores

  Were formed in 2008 in the east zone of São Paulo, in the city’s outskirts, by the artists and researchers Toni Baptiste and Flávio Camargo. The collective aims to think cities as a way and support to their actions in different visual and technological languages, discussing themes related to the outskirts, cultural/historical erasing, and also the rights to the city.

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  Christophe Hutin

  Architect and professor-researcher at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bordeaux. Specializing in sustainable architecture based on construction economics, he has realized several projects in the field of housing, but also of public cultural facilities. Christophe Hutin was appointed curator of the French pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 around his project: "Communities at work". He was also a collaborator of the Chicago Architecture Biennale 2021.

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  Dele Adeyemo

  Architect and urban theorist at the University of London. His research crosses black studies with urban studies to question how the rise of logistics is driving urbanization processes through perceptions stemming from colonialism.

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  Francis Kéré

  Internationally renowned Burkina Faso architect and 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, recognized for his pioneering approach to sustainable design and modes of construction. Some of his most famous projects include the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, the Dr. Léo Surgical Clinic and Health Center, the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion and Xylem, the recently opened pavilion for the Tippet Rise Art Center.

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  Grupo Banga

  Refers to a group of five Angolan architects who aim to promote Angolan culture and architecture through artistic-cultural projects and events. Members of the group are: Katia Mendes, Yolana Lemos, Gilson Mendes, Elsimar de Freitas and Mamona Duca. The group is part of a "younger generation" of Angolan architects, who seek mainly one or several identities within the national architecture. United for the development and promotion of architecture and arts in their home country, the BANGA group seeks through authorial projects to reflect on the state of architecture in Angola, as well as to think about the conception and morphology of communities, always attentive to the signs of the daily life of society. In the basis of this collective's work it is clear the use of collage techniques, photomontages, illustrations, among other graphic resources.

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  Jaime Lauriano

  is a visual artist. His production seeks to bring to the surface historical traumas relegated to the past, to confined archives, in a proposal of revision and collective reworking of history.

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  Mona Rikumbi

  Actress, ballerina, poet, performer, and independent artist who created and produces her own work. Adetayo Ariel Soloist percussionist, graduated in History, content producer, and afro-pedagogy. He is also an educator in drums workshops with recycled material.

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  Mouraria 53

  Interdisciplinary collective formed by the process of reform and occupation of a ruin-house in the old center of Salvador, Bahia. Mutirões, pedagogy, reuse of materials, relations between construction and housing, and architectural processes are themes that, starting from the experience of the house, guide other researches. Working as a network of friends and projects, the group unites in works from the memory of the city and the investigation of its changes. They were the only Northeasterners selected for the XII São Paulo Architecture Biennial, and in 2022 they launched the book Cincotrês, with support from the Rumos Itaú Cultural call.

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  Uýra

  Is a hybrid entity, the intertwining of scientific knowledge from biology with ancestral indigenous wisdom. She calls plants by their popular names and in Latin, and thus evokes their medicinal properties, their tastes, their smells, their powers. The result is a complex and intricate understanding of the forest, a tangle of knowledge and quests. Uýra presents itself as "a tree that walks." It was born in 2016, during the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, when the biologist decided to expand her academic research and seek ways to bring the debate on environmental conservation and indigenous and LGBT+ rights to communities in and around Manaus. In art and biology classes, or photographic performances, in makeup and camouflage, in texts and installations, what Uýra does is to speak from the forest and with it.

→ Selected artists

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  Ahora, Luciana Varkulja e Dapoda

  Ahora Research and design studio investigating future landscapes shaped by extractive economies. Directed by Linda Schilling and Claudio Astudillo in Santiago, Chile. Luciana Varkulja Architect researches forest management practices to take a holistic approach during the design process. Dapoda Startup whose goal is to promote the valorization of tree waste in urban areas.

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  Andrey Guaianá Zignnatto

  Tupinaky'ia and Guarani indigenous artist. He worked as a bricklayer with his grandfather. These affective and ancestral memories serve as a basis for the poetics, choice of processes, and production materials of his works.

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  Augusto Leal

  The artist understands art as a liberating practice insofar as through it he is able to understand and elaborate the issues that cross him and fabricate new worlds. Thinking from social and geopolitical relations, he researches how art can promote transformations in the way people think, relate, and move in the world.

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  Bloco Afro Afirmativo Ilu Inã

  Founded by Fernando Alabê and Fefê Camilo, with Francine Moura as Carnavalesca. It represents a STATE OF INTENT in making more and more ways and possibilities open to black people, creating, producing, spreading and establishing black movements.

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  CAPU – Coletivo de Ações Poéticas Urbanas

  Created in 2018 in the city of Goiânia, Goiás, understanding that participatory action is a transformative act. By creating urban practices in the context of a historic city, CAPU seeks ways to decolonize artistic and educational processes.

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  Cidade Quintal

  Urban practices lab that since 2016 has been dedicated to strengthening communities from art, participatory design, and urbanism.

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  Coletivo Humana Mente

  Formed by students, teachers and sign language interpreters from the Rio Branco College and Deaf Education Center. Since 2013, from discussions and exchange of references, we unite art and accessibility.

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  Gabriela e Mariana Leandro Pereira

  are sisters. Gabriela is an architect and urban planner, professor at the Federal University of Bahia, where she conducts research on the city, intersected by racial and gender studies. Mariana has a bachelor's degree in law, is an independent researcher, post-graduate in Mediation, Conflict Management and Resolution, and is a founding partner of Tangram Diálogos and Coletivo Dialogar.

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  GeMAP - Grupo de Estudos Mapografias Urbanas (FAUUSP)

  It proposes to work from the interlocution between urban studies and territorial forms of representation, mobilizing tools and languages that allow shared productions with the inhabitants of the territories with which it works. Imargem A multidisciplinary initiative, created in 2006 in the southern edge of São Paulo, on the banks of the Billings dam, in the district of Grajaú, which proposes a careful look at the populated landscape of the periphery, encouraging thinking and acting towards the potentialities and problems of our society.

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  Jadson Rocha

  Lives and works in Brasília, Federal District. Produces objects, installations, interventions and performances, based on issues such as emptiness, fragility, word, offal and everyday life.

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  Jessica Bittencourt

  Lives and works in Natal-RN. An architect and urban planner, she is currently a professor of Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Master in Housing of Social Interest. Visual artist with a focus on urban practices and intervention in space.

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  Juan Casemiro

  Lives and works between São Paulo, São Paulo and Conceição das Pedras, Minas Gerais. He is a visual artist and architect, a master's student at FAU USP. His research seeks to tension the relationships between work and artistic making, with developments in the field of architecture and the production of the city.

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  Leticia Pardo

  A Mexican architect and artist based in Chicago, her work focuses on stories about migration, ways of making place, and citizenship across borders and how these manifest themselves in architecture and the city.

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  Francine Moura e Lumumba Afroindígena

  Francine Moura is a black woman who loves to create spaces, images, and imaginaries. She works as an architect, art director, carnival performer, and dancer. Lumumba Afroindígena black man, self-taught plastic artist. His main influences today are Basquiat, Ordalina Cândido and original African and Amerindian art.

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  Mãos à Obra Zabelê

  The project carries out participatory technical consultancy in a partnership between the collective Levanta Amotara Zabelê (Center for Architecture), the Federal University of Southern Bahia (Center for Studies and Interventions in the City and the Center for Training in Techno-Science and Innovation), and the City School (Platform Architecture and Biosphere), with support from the Pró-Reitoria de Extensão e Cultura - UFSB.

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  Mika S

  Multimedia artist from the backlands of Bahia. Graduated in humanities at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences at UFBA and urbanist and architect at FAUFBA. He has experience with shows, exhibitions, research, and multilingual projects.

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  Mona Rikumbi e Adetayo Ariel

  Mona Rikumbi é atriz, bailarina, poeta, performer, artista independente. Cria e produz os próprios trabalhos. Adetayo Ariel, percussionista solista, historiador de formação, produtor de conteúdo afro pedagogo. Educador em oficinas de tambores com material reciclável.

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  Pedro Vitor Costa, Ana Amorim, Melanie Martins, Victoria Michelini, Ravísia Avelar, Ricardo Kranen

  A collective of architects and urban planners graduated at FAU-UFRJ and linked to Tre+Co (Laboratory of research and transdisciplinary practices in architecture). Our partnership stems from an interest in investigating the contact zones of knowledge in the broad field of architecture.

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  Rádio Floresta

  It is a collective grouping around radio in order to amplify voices, to do things together, and to form community. It is made from the production of multi-specific alliances with and in favor of the idea of floridity.

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  Rebeca Ramos

  Visual artist and art educator. She has a bachelor's degree in visual arts from Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (2020), a specialization from Escola da Cidade in the course Cidades em Disputa: história, pesquisa e movimentos sociais (2021), and is studying philosophy at Universidade Federal de São Paulo. She produces her works based on the themes of the city.

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  Taller Creando Sin Encargos

  It is a design collective based in Puerto Rico, composed of three female architects. Their mission is to research, build, and support architecture that promotes equity.

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  Teresa Siewerdt

  Artist, researcher, educator, and granddaughter of farmers. She is interested in cultivating the land and creating or strengthening forms of interspecific collectivities through art.

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  Thiago Lee

  Born in São Paulo and son of South Korean parents. He has a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from FAU/USP and is currently pursuing a double master's degree in Architecture and Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York.

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  Vilma Patrícia S. Silva e Luis Claudio N. Matos

  Vilma Patrícia S. Silva Black candomblecist and writer. Graduated and master student in architecture and urbanism / UFBA, co-founder of the research group EtniCidades - UFBA. Performs architectural work voluntarily in Candomblé terreiros since 2013. Luis Claudio N. Matos Negro Ogan, a graduate in History from UCSAL-BA, researcher on religiosity of African matrix with emphasis on orality and was part of this project as an executor and authority of the terreiro.