Insurgent urbanization in Rua Marconi, São Paulo

As part of the action-research programme ‘Insurgent Regeneration’, the DPU’s Alex Frediani spent some time over the summer working with the team of the ‘Insurgent Urbanization’ module at the Universidade Federal do ABC in São Paulo, Brazil. The research was a real success, engaging with inhabitants occupying a vacant building in the city centre of São Paulo led by a housing social movement called ‘Movimento de Moradia Para Todos’ (MMPT). The research involved speaking to and working closely with residents and organisers of the movement. The final activity of the research was the Café da Manhã na Rua Marconi (Breakfast in Marconi Street) – an event that appropriated the public space of the street as a meeting place for community and encounters between strangers.

Watch a timelapsed video of this activity below.