How a new organization was born from commonities.org´s first physical activity (see the #AgenteMuda project) and became a local place-maker specialist, who, in addition to carrying out its own visionary activities, also coordinated and produced the Vida Local Rio 2022 project.

Socio-environmental education, gastronomy, food, and income.

A collective effort to support the transformation of a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro into a more sustainable and resilient community.

WATER, PLANTING AND CARING FOR CHANGE - How a tree became the catalyst for the first activity of commonities.org, connecting UNESCO´s first and second World Capitals of Architecture.

The APER (Friends of the Ecological Park of Rocinha) collective is turning the park into a space of confraternization and reflection, helping overcome the traumas and needs of the community.

In 2020, at the invitation of the Danish Cultural Institute in Brazil, Jesper Koefoed-Melson brought to Rio de Janeiro (then the World Capital of Architecture) his savvy method for strengthening local communities: the Vida Local project.

Located in Rio’s port zone, the Bhering Factory became, over the last decades, one of the most relevant shelters for the artistic and cultural production of Rio and Brazil.

Tiradentes Cultural is a festivity in Rio’s downtown, surrounded by stories, memories, but also amnesias. It’s a popular and collective construction that, by celebrating the present, helps rebuild the past and preserve a desirable future.

“PRAIA is a teaser, a delight, a well-deserved relaxation…,” explains Leticia Nabuco, creator, director, and performer of this project, along with many other artists and citizens. PRAIA has the city center of Juiz de Fora as its stage, scenario, and provocative body. “... we are interested in indulging in what we call a ‘state of beach’, and celebrating, joyfully, the beauty of all bodies,” the director complements.

The rural community in the heart of the forest in the center of the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, that chose to become an ecological model of self-management.

Mapa-Muro is the intervention on an external wall/facade located in a favela, at the headquarters of a social project, NGO, or institution. This intervention was conceived in 2018 by SOAR Estúdio, a collective from urban peripheries, and consists of the reproduction of the map of the favela where the project is carried out, in the form of a mosaic of shards of brick and tiles, complemented by paint and pigmented grain.

A versão brasileira do projeto Commons & Communities traz como eixo central a cidade. Cidade como plataforma para o desenvolvimento possível de comunidades e de seus bens comuns. Cidade não apenas como território geopolítico de dimensões públicas e privadas, mas como um corpo coletivo, uma manifestação concreta das dinâmicas harmônicas ou desarmônicas das comunidades coabitantes. Esse eixo central se desdobra em três conceitos associativos: Cidade Água, Cidade Comida e Cidade Bem Viver.

In the midst of one of the biggest water shortages that Rio de Janeiro has ever experienced, the city's pilot green roof was born, in the Morro do Vidigal favela, inspiring the “Marvellous City” to align with the "world agenda for sustainable development and climate", and also, with the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) of a minimum index of green area per inhabitant in urban areas.

The Museum Game was developed as a preliminary phase of the participatory project of the Sankofa Museum’s physical space, in Rocinha. Through playful language, the game seeks to engage residents in the elaboration of the museum’s programme, widening the possibility of activities to be developed in the venue.