Living in the slum is innovating all the time. Every day, between absences and difficulties, we learn to reinvent paths, solve problems and follow with dignity. The historical image of the favela as synonymous with lack hides our enormous creative potential, based on networks of solidarity and shared knowledge.
The Providence Gallery is part of this force to build practices that face the challenges of the territory in a collaborative, affective and strategic way. We develop social technologies that are born of listening, experience and urgency. Tools that organize, connect, assist and enhance the capacity of the territory to think and act for itself. Always in network, we seek partners and supporters who can add up in this walk.
Living in the slum is first of all inventing. Every day, Providence residents invent creative solutions to deal with challenges. It is from this power that our inspiration is born. In this line of action, we focus on our Data Lab (DataProvi) the works of creation, testing and adaptation of participatory methodologies, designed from the local reality and aimed at creating tools that can be reproduced, strengthening community autonomy.
Community Intelligence at Covid-19: We conducted a thorough mapping that achieved 8,525 residents. This database was essential to monitor the level of contagion and ensure that food and hygiene supplies accurately reached the most vulnerable homes.
Population Census of Providence (2022): This is our prime example of citizen science. For ten weeks, Residents Monitors (MMs) They visited 2,897 households, resulting in 1,456 questionnaires answered. The project linked the social technology of the territory to the cartographic expertise of the NEGRAM/IPPUR/UFRJ, generating a real and technical portrait of the hill.
Register Neighbors of Tomorrow: A complex logistics and social operation involving 8 thousand registrations and home delivery of Six grand. for residents, narrowing the ties between the community and the cultural equipment of Small Africa.
