Ver – Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto

It is not enough to look at Vila Itororó in order to see it. This visual archive, under construction, composed by images from different times, points to many Vila Itororó’s that exist within Vila Itororó, and that the naked eye cannot reach: the Itororó river, is nowadays subterranean and runs inside pipes laid under Avenue 23 de Maio; the palazzo, then already being lived in, increasingly added to; the houses, originally meant for a single family, divided into many dwelling spaces, in the form of a slum; walls erected, pulled down or graffitied; among other transformations, such as layers that overlap or even that have been erased. Personal archives, long-term researches, photo essays, paintings, drawings and films/videos.

Information about the open construction site

Starting on March 10th of 2018 , the Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto (open construction site) project, conceived by Instituto Pedra, takes on a new form, restricting itself to the renovation construction works, the occasional public debates, and the diffusion of content about Vila Itororó. As such, Instituto Pedra will no longer manage the cultural program that takes place at the warehouse space of Rua Pedroso, 238.

Being so, this website works as an X-ray of what was the establishment of an experiment of a cultural center in a construction site, which worked as part of the restoration process – anticipating, as well, the public function of the housing complex. In the website it is possible to find information on the activities, political queries, reflections, and the “way of doing” that made it all possible. This archive also extrapolates on the present temporality of the project (2015-2018) and brings on Vila Itororó’s past through researches, photos, sound archives, documents, films, and books written and/or published especially in this context.

Staring on the 10th of March of 2018, the management of cultural activities will be taken up by the São Paulo Culture Municipal SecretaryFor more information on the use of the space, write to vilaitororo@prefeitura.sp.gov.br.

To send messages about the restoration, materials about Vila Itororó, or ways of supporting the Canteiro Aberto, use the e-mail address vilaitororo@institutopedra.org.br.

For open construction sites and for the unfolding of this experience!

Seeing

Milu Leite Archive

Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto - documentary

Audiovisuais externos sobre a Vila Itororó

MAPEAMENTO CULTURAL DA BELA VISTA

Events held at Canteiro Aberto

Relatórios do Restauro e da programação cultural da Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto

Laboratório Vila Itororó: Experimentos de uma vida em comum

Information about the open construction site