Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:21:00 -0800 Cities of the Future: Building a Smarter Favela: IBM Signs Up Rio | Fast Company http://1001tales.posterous.com/cities-of-the-future-building-a-smarter-favel http://1001tales.posterous.com/cities-of-the-future-building-a-smarter-favel
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Excerpt:

BY GREG LINDSAY Mon Dec 27, 2010

"IBM is announcing this morning an agreement with the city of Rio de Janeiro to build a “Single City Operations Center,” or what amounts to a control room for the sprawling megalopolis. The center will draw upon data from dozens of municipal departments and public agencies.
While the system will initially focus on predicting the kinds of mudslides and floods that killed hundreds last April and left 15,000 homeless, it’s designed, ultimately, to monitor and respond to any type of emergency--just in time for the city to host both the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
The deal is IBM’s most ambitious smarter city project to date; previous efforts have tended to be single-purpose programs in developed cities, such as a congestion pricing scheme for London or water management in Dubuque. But Rio is a different situation--a bona fide megacity in one of the world’s fastest growing economies, in the midst of a multi-billion dollar infrastructure upgrade ahead of the World Cup. Although financial terms were not disclosed, the deal illuminates just how indispensable IBM hopes to become to the daily operations of Rio--and how it plans to do the same for cities everywhere...."

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http://www.fastcompany.com/1712443/building-a-smarter-favela-ibm-signs-up-rio

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Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:51:00 -0800 Love this project: Rio favela painting itself out of a corner http://1001tales.posterous.com/love-this-project-rio-favela-painting-itself http://1001tales.posterous.com/love-this-project-rio-favela-painting-itself
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Excerpt from the article on artreview.com :

"Creating imagery to counter the steady stream of negative coverage is one of the ambitions of Haas & Hahn's Favela Painting project, which they launched in 2006 with some funding from the Dutch Ministry of Culture. Rio Cruzeiro follows the project's first act, The boy with the kite, a mural in the centre of Vila Cruzeiro on the side of a building that became the neighorhood's first art gallery. The inspiration for the project came in 2005 when Haas & Hahn (their name is derived from the last syllables of Koolhaas & Urhahn) first came to Rio to make Firmeza Total, a short documentary commissioned by MTV on the role of hip hop in the lives of favela youth. Struck by the disconnect between these neighorhoods and the city that surrounds them, Haas & Hahn started imagining ways to encourage the citizens of Rio to take a second look at one of their city's defining features.

"If you want to build a bridge between these two sides of the city that live side by side but have an enormous gap between them," Urhan tells me later, "the easiest way is to do it through some sort of art intervention." Koolhaas adds: "We tried to find a way for the [residents'] sense of pride to be painted on the walls of the favela so that the outside world could see how good they feel about themselves and could understand that there are families here that can take care of themselves."

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Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:44:00 -0800 Amazing project - artists paint murals in Rio: Favela Painting http://1001tales.posterous.com/amazing-project-artists-paint-murals-in-rio-f http://1001tales.posterous.com/amazing-project-artists-paint-murals-in-rio-f
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From the site:

"Our Latest Work On Praça Cantão In Santa Marta

On the 29th of march we finished work on the latest Favela Painting and our first part of 'O Morro': Praça Cantão. The central square at the foot of the community of Santa Marta, a favela in the heart of Rio de Janeiro.

You can find information and Images about this and our earlier work on this site."

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