ZL Vortice Project

Translations from the blog https://zlvortice.wordpress.com/

Presentation ZL VÓRTICE (ZL = Zona Leste = East Side)1

The ZL Vórtice project covers the territory of the city of São Paulo (Brazil) bounded by the Aricanduva and Jacú-Pêssego avenues, and to the north, by the Tietê River, at the height of Ecological Park. It is crossed by several large-capacity transport systems: subway, highways and passenger trains, besides the bus lanes.

The polygon is pivot axis with the Guarulhos airport, the south ring road and the port of Santos (a coast city). This area of the East Zone goes through intense processes of transformation, due to large investments in infrastructure and public facilities. It is the place of emergence of new production and urban arrangements and new social practices. But it also presents river basins and floodplains affected by extractive activities and occupations, improvised buildings, industrial exploitation, landfills and waste disposal sites.

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See more photos at http://pt.slideshare.net/AdelineGil1/media-lab-presentation

The project is currently promoting a survey of the territory, in partnership with SESC2 and with the support of several public agencies of urban planning and management. The aim is to detect the landscape dynamics, ways of living and producing, mobility and communication resources, community organizations and practices and critical urban processes. This means the main situations of environmental, productive, social, cultural and historical interest: a database of information that can be accessed by mobile communication devices in the featured sites or from any other terminal.

From these investigations, ZL Vórtice aims to deploy experimentation “worksites” in the East Zone of São Paulo. The worksites will bring together artists, architects, designers, engineers, scientists and public managers with local communities to develop projects related to different aspects of the region: critical landscapes, housing, mobility, productive territory, recycling and public space.

That is to say, experimentations with new materials, manufacturing processes, construction devices and social agencies that enhance innovation and technological diffusion in peripheral areas of the metropolis will be held. Each worksite will be an urban laboratory, creating prototypes to serve as a paradigm for collective practices and public policy.

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Serviço Social do Comércio - Social Service of Commerce

Link: https://zlvortice.wordpress.com/pesquisas/

Researches ZL V贸rtice will develop a mapping of the territory, in partnership with SESC. The aim is to detect landscape dynamics, major infrastructure and reurbanization projects, ways of living and producing, mobility and communication resources, community organizations and practices, and critical urban processes. It means: the main situations of environmental, productive, social, cultural and historical interest. This material will be the basis for developing an online tool, specifically designed for researchers and communities to understand and interact with the processes occurring in the region.

Urban and socioeconomic mapping

- Survey of urban, social and environmental dynamics of the region.

The territory and the forms of occupation, production processes, implementation of infrastructure and reurbanization operations.

- Analysis and visualization of complex processes on a large scale.

Combining the different existing mappings on the region with new information collected by the project team, in order to make analyzes of the different phenomena covered.

Sociocultural mapping - Mapping of organizations and cultural practices inserted in the landscape and in urban dynamics of the region. Finding groups and cultural phenomena in history, urban structure and the transformation processes of the area.

- Keeping records of reports that make the communities: the cartography that they draw themselves. Understanding the sociocultural processes in urban and economic context in which they occur, in order to identify their potential to contribute to the development of the region.

ZL V贸rtice Platform

The material will be made available on a digital platform, accessible by computers and mobile devices - a tool specially developed to enable local communities to disseminate productive and creative practices that occur in the area, as well as to enable a greater participation in the formulation of public policies. An instrument that will serve to strengthen social, productive and cultural networks of the region. (this is where I麓m going to collaborate)

Link: https://zlvortice.wordpress.com/como-ver-a-zl/ How to see ZL (East Side)?

Three photographers, Arnaldo Pappalardo, Mauro Restiffe e Pio Figueiroa, are doing essays on the East Side.

The vastness and complexity of large cities make problematic any attempt to grasp it by observation, to portray it in pictures. The city today escapes from individual experience. How is the photographer's confrontation with the metropolis like today? It´s a search for escape routes in a territory of disordered densities and empty interstices.

This work is part of a larger project on public spaces in SĂŁo Paulo, carried out with the support of the Institute Tomie Ohtake.

Link: https://zlvortice.wordpress.com/oficinas/ Workshops

ZL V贸rtice Workshops

Art workshops will be held in different districts of the region, made possible by a ProAC (edital - public notice?) (Cultural Action Program of Ministry of Culture). Ten invited artists, together with creators and local residents, will develop photographic and video records with digital devices for the internet.

Mappings will be made from the collection and reuse of discarded materials. This will involve creators who work with different materials, with extensive experience in conducting community and interactive projects.

Curator - Nelson Brissac Peixoto

Link: https://zlvortice.wordpress.com/canteiros/ Worksites

Worksites ZL Vórtice aims to deploy experimentation “worksites” in the East Zone of São Paulo. The worksites will bring together artists, architects, designers, engineers, scientists and public managers with local communities to develop projects related to different aspects of the region: infrastructure and urban planning, critical landscapes, housing, productive territory, recycling and public space. Experimentations with new materials, manufacturing processes, construction devices and social agencies that enhance innovation and technological diffusion in peripheral areas of the metropolis will be held. Each worksite will be an urban laboratory, creating prototypes to serve as a paradigm for collective practices and public policy.

Tietê Floodplain Worksite The neighborhoods formed by the Tietê floodplain occupations constitute an infrastructural urbanism, in which great works of drainage and water containment occur simultaneously with the restructuring of the settlements.

We propose to seize the realization of infrastructure works and the installation of public spaces to promote the participation of different specialists and community organizations in large-scale urbanization processes.