Gelene

What do we do about social perception towards marginalized communities?

To quote the original video that you can find here: “…although these communities cover nearly every hillside of the city, this somehow did not seem to be considered a legitimate part of it.  They were feared, endured constant negative portrayal in the media, and suffered under heavy conflicts between drug gangs and police.  Self-built and self-organized, to us the favela seemed to be full of creativity and hope.  This made us think, then suddenly we had a crazy idea.  What if we could paint all these houses in the communities into unifying designs.  It could make the neighbourhood look more beautiful and as for attention: in a positive way.  You could make people stop and look…and show the outside world what proud and vibrant communities favelas really are.”

Haas & Hahn – img courtesy of Utne.com

Rio de Janeiro favela after Haas & Hahn’s favela art project . Image courtesy of Maria Muñoz via Pinterest

Rio de Janeiro favela after Haas & Hahn’s favela art project . Image courtesy of RDJ4U

Here’s a good talk about that.

https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/haas_hahn_how_painting_can_transform_communities.html

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