Favela painting: building community, social change and emancipation through an OrgansparkZ/Art installation

Imas, Miguel J. (2014) Favela painting: building community, social change and emancipation through an OrgansparkZ/Art installation. Favelas@LSE (22 Oct 2014). Website.

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For some time now, Brazilian favela dwellers have been constructing representations of joy, resourcefulness and creativity that the wider public sphere now associates with favela life. Through multiple bottom-up projects, they have managed to challenge deep-seated negative understandings of favela dwellers as inherently poor and violent. In this post, J. Miguel Imas discusses how the Favela Painting project has contributed to this endeavour through an OrgansparkZ/Art intervention, a collective art installation that acts as a vehicle for social change.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/favelasatlse/
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2015 15:37
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 19:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60634

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