The Next Layer - Rio de Janeiro

Project Pier

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:34:02 +0000

Map of Rio de Janeiro

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:31:42 +0000

Cidade da Samba

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:29:08 +0000

A new development in the port area of Rio offers all year Carneval.

Cidade da Musica, City of Music

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:27:33 +0000

Jean Novel's Rio Guggenheim

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:25:52 +0000

Brazil´s megacities and urban development policies

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:01:01 +0000

In this text urban researcher Prof. Dr. Maria da Silveira Lobo compiles some of the key facts about Megacity formation in Brasil, and reflects on event architecture and the spectacularisation of the City as well as on the role of NGOs. In November 2007 Ina Zwerger and Armin Medosch went to interview Maria for the forthcoming radio programme Brazil: Laboratory of the Future. Maria was so friendly to compile this text as a primer for our research. We thought that this text is an excellent resource, which should be made available to the public online.

Telecommunications in Brasil

admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:52:32 +0000

This image illustrates the state of telecommunications in Brasil. Somewhere inside those messy cables is the copper wire which carries our ADSL. Because of the rain it stopped working. (I am now in another building where there still is a line). A decent always-on-internet connection costs a fortune here in Rio. If you consider the lower income level this makes it even more expensive. Mobile phone tariffs are punishing, 10 Euros went up in the air just for two or three short calls. So how can you have a knowledge society with such a cost structure?

Pao do Acucar (Sugar Loaf Mountain)

admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:44:31 +0000

As soon as I had uploaded the firts two pictures, the connection broke. And then the grand deluge started. So it is not smoke that is coming out of the top of the famous mountain, but a cloud. At least we can see it again. because for 48 hours there was only water on all sides.

Urban Activism in Brasil

Armin Medosch — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:08:36 +0000

Ina working Outdoors at Capacete

Armin Medosch — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:46:54 +0000

In Rio de Janeiro we are staying at Capacete, an artist residency in the old quarter of Santa Teresa. The DSL in the room did not work but we could pick up our hosts wireless connectrion from next door by working outdoors. Obviously Ina didn't mind and me neither.