open course on Local Power with Escola da Cidade<\/a> and a community space to redesign with partners inside and outside the community\u2013that deserved completion. There were also some additional artists and makers who we wanted to host while also ‘disassembling’ the platform. Basically we had a few more things we wanted to do as a group. One might even argue that the ‘post-planning cycle’ was an important time to have a final cohort of residents in as much our guests–international and local–helped us to compound ideas and avoid groupthink on consistent basis over the duration of the project. <\/span><\/p>\n Early in 2018 we hosted Berlin-based photographer, Akinbode Akinbiyi. His work began at a small Nigerian spiritual shop in the Center near the Copan Building where Akinbode resided. This corresponded with the second visit of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm whose architecture students worked with their local peers at the Escola da Cidade to start the beginning of an incremental charrette process with the residents of Conjunto Santos Dumont, the modernist compound where the lunch counter is located in its 14 Bis Building. We closed our primary residency unit at the Copan shortly after Akinbode’s stay. However the apartment at Conjunto Santos Dumont, in the adjacent Demoizelle Building, opened for the Amber Art & Design (Philadelphia) residency and the staging of the Neighborhood Museum<\/a> was still functioning to host the open course and Monday lunches in the period after Carnival and until the end of June, 2018. During this period, artists Mickael Marchand (France), Chico Togni (Brasil), Kadija de Paula (Brasil), Jade Tang (Paris) all lived in the apartment at Rua Paim for short periods. Photographer and one of the primary documentarians of the Lanchonete.org project (2016-18), Leandro Moraes stayed there as well to support the open course and Monday Lunches that other members were planning and hosting. Throughout the first half of 2018 the activities in the Demoizelle apartment-cum-Neighborhood Museum generated more public events at Tarcisio’s Bar downstairs at 14 Bis Building and in the general public space of Conjunto Santos Dumont. During this time, the retiling of the Demoizelle building was completed, and the internal roadway was paved privately, paid for by the three buildings of Conjunto Santos Dumont and its residents. This seems to have changed the usage patterns of the internal roadway. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Visits, residencies, encounters:<\/h4>\n
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Charrette With KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm<\/strong><\/span>
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