If you still remember the story of RadioFavela is subtitled ‘Not assumable becomes consumable … becomes subsumable‘. The links here refer to RadioFavela’s website, where you can read the theoretical texts.
With the chapter ‘not assumable’ I tried to explain the situation in Rio (or in Megacities in general), you can listen to it again in the category RF01 – not assumable.
The middle part ‘RF02 – consumable‘ is any cultural production I had the chance to catch for you. This is definitely the most enjoyable part.
Now it becomes ‘subsumable’ which is my response to all what I have gone through here in Rio, which is a RadioProductionCentre in the carioca harbour zone. Within the next four podcasts you can follow step by step my understanding of the favela via the city to my RadioProductionCentre in a very high abstraction grade.
The diagram above illustrates the text you will listen to. For those who get the podcast via feed I added the image as cover.
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könnt Ihr Favela hier nachlesen.
Next Monday it will be continued with ‘Urban Landscape ‘Megalopolis”
Vicky Collins, a freelance television producer, has written an article on favela-tours who are offering tours for tourists through Rocinha. Have a read at it!
http://vickycollins.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/touring-rios-favelas/
anthropologist (Latin American Studies)
A short video of the life in favelas and good background information of everyday life in favelas starting 30 years ago.
http://youthink.worldbank.org/issues/urbanization/radiowaves.php
Dj, teacher
Tenho orgulho de ser favelado da Rocinha.
Very nice website! Thank you for make this site.
julakim is replying:
claro, somos quem somos e temos nos comunicar que somos. nao tem humano melhor. eu gosto das diferencas e importante saber disso.
A favela analsysis from a workshop:
http://www.citiesalliance.org/doc/features/slum-electrification-workshop/favelas-rio.pdf
The annual report can be downloaded here:
http://www.citiesalliance.org/publications/annual-report/2007-annual-report.html
With the following sections
* Cover and Foreword (5 pages, 293 KB PDF)
* Cities Alliance in Action (29 pages, 592 KB PDF)
* Cities Alliance Members’ Reports (33 pages, 459 KB PDF)
* Communications and Knowledge Sharing (12 pages, 179 KB PDF)
* Cities Alliance Organizations (5 pages, 85 KB PDF)
* Financials (11 pages, 89 KB PDF)
* Abbreviations and Acronyms (5 pages, 89 KB PDF)
Hello,
I am a tour guide and a translator / interpreter in Rio de Janeiro. I have been living in a favela for 3 years now and I cannot imagine of moving somewhere else in this city.
I would like to share a little article I wrote about favelas that gives you an idea about how it all started until the 1960s.
http://lemebabilonia.multiply.com/journal/item/12/Favela_-_from_1888_to_1960
All the best,
Isabell