Recently, the Espacio Foundation published a new book, Interventions in Public Spaces in Sucre Municipality” (Intervenciones de espacios públicos en barrios del municipio Sucre). The book documents a program set Continue reading
Dear Readers, As the FAVELissues team will be taking a break for the holidays, I wanted to leave you with a pretty funny- yes, mocking- but quite illustrative video on Continue reading
When I first visited the construction site of the Parque Ecológico da Rocinha I was asked to not share photos since the government entities involved in its planning and construction Continue reading
For this quick post and video on “Favela Painting” in Philly, I do not want to comment yet but want to invite others to do so. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO (if Continue reading
Post by Silvia Soonets [Proyectos Arqui 5] on Caracas Just yesterday the verdict of the jury in Venice was made public, and the discussion in Caracas went immediately bitter and Continue reading
It’s summertime where I live. And I get an extra dose of seasonal exuberance from my living room window into East City Park where the family reunions picnic, church groups Continue reading
Part 1: The Color Scheme As we return from a month break at FAVELissues, I wanted to start this new series of posts with a very short post on an Continue reading
Representations of informal settlements in the work of visual artists are often of interest to architects designing projects in informal settlements. In my last post, I wrote about an artist Continue reading
The title of this post is taken from a series of paintings by Jeff Gillette, a Southern-California-based mixed-media artist and painter. Gillette, in his artist’s statement, writes of his visits Continue reading
AESTHETIZATIONS+GENTRIFICATION “Observers of the contemporary city have described the late capitalist urban condition as characterized by a trend toward the aesthetization, where the primacy of the visual and the centrality Continue reading
Adriana’s post reminds me of a project that we built as architecture undergrads in Mumbai. As a part of a short workshop conducted at KRVIA[1], we decided to build a Continue reading
[Skin+Signs]: Upgrading tool driven by aesthetics and imagery. Skins+Signs focuses on minimal interventions, such as the application of paint, ornament, and marketing to the exterior of buildings and structures, attempting Continue reading
Continuing the dialogical debate between FAVELissues writers about the conflation of informality and slums at the glocal scale. Following Lubiana’s post about urban informality as a form of protesting economic inequality Continue reading
Intro Post by Bethany Opalach In representational works of art, the image itself is the object of our perception and attention, while the subject is transformed into only part of Continue reading
