Leaving Open

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

For the purposes of this site, terms like ‘Leaving Open’ and ‘Final Touch’ are figurative.

Through a Post-Planning Cycle, Lanchonete.org conducted a year-long public programme (2018) in order to allow ongoing processes to come to natural ends, and to receive feedback on the overall work. ‘Paim, final touch’ (part 1 and part 2) describes how some Lanchonete.org participants have continued working from Tarcísio’s Bar (lunch counter) and with the residents of Conjunto Santos Dumont, and indeed in this way we are ‘Leaving Open’ the new network forged by the five-year project, Lanchonete.org (2013-17).

Post-Planning Cycle

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Vídeo: Coletivo Coletores

By the time Lanchonete.org reached its five-year mark, we had a momentum that could not easily stop on December 31, 2017. Indeed at this point we had some activities–the Neighborhood Museum, Monday Lunches, an open course on Local Power with Escola da Cidade and a community space to redesign with partners inside and outside the community–that deserved completion. There were also some additional artists and makers who we wanted to host while also ‘disassembling’ the platform. Basically we had a few more things we wanted to do as a group. One might even argue that the ‘post-planning cycle’ was an important time to have a final cohort of residents in as much our guests–international and local–helped us to compound ideas and avoid groupthink on consistent basis over the duration of the project.

Journal on Lanchonete

Leaving Open

Post-Planning Cycle