BioUrban, carinho

BioUrban is an unique urban intiative pioneered by a young sociology student Jeff
Anderson in the Mauro favela, an inner city area in São Paulo that has suffered from
socio-environmental degradation. The project has seen the realization of a series of
aesthetic interventions that have transformed the spatial quality of the neighbourhood in a
short period of time. Interventions include the cleaning up of small spaces and threshold
areas in front of peoples homes, planting of flower beds in place of concrete kerbs,
introduction of colour and materials to humanise the facades of buildings and exposed
infrastructure, the creation of public artworks by local children and the staging of collective
activities such as painting sessions - within these found urban places. All material used
in the project comes from waste and garbage found in the neighborhood. Building on the
work of artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser who advocates "the right to the
window", BioUrban is dedicated to the development of leadership capacity and the
creation of healthy urban spaces within the areas of social risk of São Paulo.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• arte pública
• atelie publico
• intervenção urbana
• urban intervention
• intervencion urbana
• urbanismo
• urban age
• biourban
• jeff anderson

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