Cycling in São Paulo

​11,895,893 people! - in place of ​a​ square- a shopping center - ​instead of ​a sidewalk - an av​enue - ​i​n place of ​a​ park - a parking ...​a​nd its engines and  horns, in place of voices City lights are made for cars, not pedestrians. In March 2011, more than 7 million vehicles were registered - notoriously bad traffic - chaotic traffic

Procurando o córrego do sapateiro

Para começar, tentamos nos achar no mapa. Será que tem uma nascente no fim dessa rua? O córrego foi encanado... será que em mangueiras como esta? Olha a água! O nome dessa rua é indício de que passa um rio aqui perto. A vegetação responde à agua subterrânea. Instrumento de Welton Santos, para achar água.

I see the sea

Military zone

Excerpt from the text Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism (Amsterdam declaration) by Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli ''We should never abandon the city in favour of a virgin territory. There is no innocent state of nature to defend: cities are flourishing ecosystems in themselves, a true ‘human participation in nature’. In fact, nature builds no idea

The Bienal Archive

The archive of the Bienal is located at the right side of the main entrance of the building. Fernanda gave an introduction on the history of the archive, going alongside with the history of the Bienal as a whole. At the moment the archive is being digitalized. When going through the whole archive the researchers

OCA Exhibition

At the downfloor of the OCA museum the history of the Iberapuera park is explained. The round building where the museum is located is built in 1954, the same year as the park itself was built originally for housing sculpture exhibitions. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the building shows some similarities with the building which currently hosts

Cafe Educativo Weekend!

We spent nearly four days with the artist Jorge Menna Barreto and his guests learning about `food and ourselves´: different strategies for producing it, different ways to think about what we eat, how it is produced, why it is important to think of food as a system, among other issues. On Thursday 30th October, Jorge

Deserts in the jungle

by geert van mil After two weeks of living and working in São Paulo I'm on my way to Ibirapuera Park to catch my breath and perhaps some coconut water. Coming down from Vila Mariana I pass Avenida 23 de Maio and it seems as if you couldn't possibly fit another car onto it. The

Exploring the Ibirapuera Park area

PERCURSO 05: BIENAL - MARQUISE - AUDITORIO - ANTIGO ACESSO PRINCIPAL (PORTÕES 1 e 2) - MONUMENTO E MAUSOLÉU AO SOLDADO CONSTITUCIONALISTA DE 1932 (OBELISCO) - AVENIDA DANTE PAZZANESE (HOSPITAL, INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA) MUSEU DO INSTITUTO BIOLÓGICO, INSTITUTO BIOLÓGICO            

Screening

Hoje fizemos uma apresentação sobre o Parque Ibirapuera e o andamento do Projeto Clima na área parque da 31ª Bienal, junto com os artistas Bik van Der Pol e os alunos da School of Missing Studies do Sandberg Instituut de Amsterdam. A partir de agora os nossos encontros aos sábados integram a programação do projeto