Projects

The day October’s 17, it proceeded the signature of the protocol between Citizenship Academy and Lisbon’s Town Hall, for the implementation of the project Outros Campeonatos, promoted by the former and financed by the latter, under the BIP/ZIP program.     Outros Campeonatos was designed to be implemented in Quinta do Cabrinha in Alcântara, between 2016 October and 2017 October. Its design was thanks to the knowledge and experience we gathered since the last three years of stay in the neighborhood, mainly from the contacts made with the community and local associations. This way, Outros Campeonatos is adapted not only to the specific needs of the community of Cabrinha, but as well as the vocation of the Citizenship Academy, which is the empowerment of people and organizations for active citizenship and social organization. The partners of this project are the Alcântara’s Town Council, the Street Football Nacional Association, the Lisbon […]

The project Outros Campeonatos is already starting!

The project “Outros Campeonatos” is starting! Outros Campeonatos is a project that began in October 2016, promoted by Academia Cidadã (Citizenship Academy) and financed by the program BIP/ZIP by Lisbon’s Town Hall, implemented in Quinta do Cabrinha, a public housing neighborhood in Alcântara – Lisbon. Has as formal partners Alcântara’s Parish Council, the small youthful group of Cabrinha “Ventos de Mudança” (Winds of Change), the Street Football Nacional Association and the Lisbon Sustainable Tourism. “The Pre-Season of the Championship” is the first activity of Outros Campeonatos. It presents Outros Campeonatos to the community and establishes the organization of the whole project. Straight contact begins with the population that already plays on the streets, through the Ventos de Mudança: creation of empathy, understanding problems and opinions. People are captivated to partake in the project. Through the development of auscultation actions, it is aimed to comprehend how are the internal relationships of […]

Outros Campeonatos_The Pre-Season of the Championship

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Temos o prazer de te convidar a participar, no próximo fim-de-semana, num conjunto de atividades sobre a Gentrificação em Lisboa, resultantes da Master Class “Gentrification, Tourism and Citymaking”:   Domingo, 16 de Outubro 13h00: Lançamento do booklet da Master Class Apresentação pelo Prof. Marc Glaudemans (Stadslab – European Urban Design) com a presença  da reitora da Fontys-Tilburg University (Holanda), Karen Neervoort. Local: CIM – Centro de Inovação da Mouraria (entrada pela Travessa dos Lagares).   11h00: Exibição do documentário  “Em Breve Estarás Aqui” + Visita Guiada Filme do realizador Fabio Petronilli, sobre a Mouraria e a Master Class, seguindo-se uma visita guiada pelo arquiteto Nuno Simões, que desenhou o CIM, a outros projectos de reabilitação da Mouraria […]

(Português) Fim-de-semana sobre Turismo e Gentrificação

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. INSCRIÇÕES ENCERRADAS Para integrar a equipa de “Outros Campeonatos”, projeto BIP/ZIP, a ser implementado no Bairro da Quinta do Cabrinha, Alcântara, Lisboa, pela Academia Cidadã. Quando? Durante, pelo menos, os primeiros 3 meses do projeto (outubro a dezembro 2016). Como? Com a realização, em média, de um vídeo de 2-3 minutos por mês. Quanto? Pagaremos 100 euros por vídeo. Os vídeos serão acerca do projeto, as atividades do projeto, a Quinta do Cabrinha, as pessoas do bairro, sobretudo aquelas que estão envolvidas no projeto. Servirão para comunicar o que se vai passando no projeto e assim procurar envolver mais participantes (de dentro e de fora do bairro). Mais sobre o projeto Outros Campeonatos: Outros Campeonatos visa promover […]

(Português) Procuramos Realizadorx de Vídeo (INSCRIÇÕES ENCERRADAS)

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. INSCRIÇÕES ENCERRADAS O objetivo do estágio é integrar e acompanhar o projeto “Outros Campeonatos”, promovido pela associação Academia Cidadã, a ser implementado no Bairro da Quinta do Cabrinha, em Alcântara, Lisboa, ao abrigo do programa BIP-ZIP da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. “Outros Campeonatos” visa promover a cidadania ativa na comunidade da Quinta do Cabrinha – contribui para o fortalecimento social do bairro, promovendo a organização comunitária, a capacidade de iniciativa local e uma maior consciência democrática. Também fomenta uma abertura do bairro à sociedade em geral, reforçando a sua integração na cidade. As principais estratégias de ação de “Outros Campeonatos” são o futebol de rua e o turismo. Eventos desportivos atraem os residentes do bairro a intervir […]

(Português) Procuramos Estagiárix Profissional – Projeto “OUTROS CAMPEONATOS” (ENCERRADO)

The ideals to discuss and to create alternatives towards issues such as urban poverty; the urgency to have more democratic and participative urban planning projects, giving a fair response to the needs of the newcomers and war victims; the privatization or public spaces; and the negative effects of gentrification, were the central issues of this four-day meeting in Amsterdam, at the City Makers Summit, together with so many projects that make the difference everyday, on a local, regional, national and international level.   The citizens-politicians   The idea of city-making is a political movement. A movement that includes anyone willing to claim a city that promotes direct action with a stronger participative power, supporting visible changes on the urban and social programme. Claiming the right to public spaces ( or the heterotopian spaces that Lefebvre used to claim) as a “survival strategie”, we are also confronting all the social and […]

Because the city is for everyone to have it

When three years ago I visited Bucharest, I gained a not very favorable impression about the city. It seemed gray and the streets, the buildings, the people were also gray – as they beared upon themselves the burden of the totalitarian past, 70 years of Soviet dictatorship had not definitely stood back. Maybe that’s why the new visit I made to the city, in the past 9 to 12 June, has caused me much surprise. This was a field trip, within the project New Europe – Cities in Transition, in order to visit locally based projects that promote the city as an area of inclusion, sustainability and participation. We were welcomed by members of Zeppelin and, in addition to the Citizenship Academy, were present organizations from Berlin (Mörchenpaprk), London (Paddington Development Trust) and Amsterdam (Pakhuis of Zwijger). Three days have come to realize how Bucharest had radically changed over the […]

Winds of change in Bucharest

Between the 27th and the 30th of May 2016, the Pakhuis de Zwijger foundation, in the Netherlands, promoted the meeting of more than 600 activists, coming from the four corners of Europe. Because they are normally involved in democratization actions of the cities, as spaces of inclusion, prosperity and resilience, they are called as the “City Makers”. It was during the “City  Makers Summit” that they met, to talk about the main problems of their cities, and the practices that they have been developing, in order to solve them.     City Makers   Visit to the centre of Zaanstad, which was complete renovated in the last 5 years, looking to offer more inclusion, functionality and visual beauty. This Summit had two main goals. The first one was to provide field trips to participants to Dutch local based projects or initiatives, with actions developed in urban context, regarding the improvement of the […]

Let us make an Europe of Democracy

Sorry, this entry is only available in Português. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. O que aconteceu em Orlando tinha como alvo as pessoas queer. Quis matar a diferença, o “estranho” aos olhos de uma sociedade que rejeita tudo o que não é branco, hetero, cis, respeitável na moral e nos bons costumes. É uma fogueira de desprezo, que vem de há séculos, alimentada por religiões, governos e fanatismos vários. É uma fogueira machista. Misógina. Patriarcal. É uma fogueira que queima quem foge à norma: paneleiros, fufas, pretos e pretas, ciganos e ciganas. Não lhe fogem bichas, trans, efeminados, marias-rapazes, mulheres em geral, migrantes e refugiadas em particular; não tolera pobres, fora de modas, gordas e gordos. Arde mais viva quando várias destas categorias se juntam numa só pessoa. E ainda […]

(Português) O Amor é a nossa arma! (vídeo) Discurso @ Marcha LGBT Lisboa 2016

 The common homophobia In this month of Pride, the LGBT community has been affected by the terrorism horror and homophobia — in Orlando 12th June 2016: 50 people died but also a lot of people injured. Our entourage often think it is getting better for this community. This tragic event shows that recent access to equal rights for LGBT does not erase homophobia, on the contrary. Without education of the tolerance and a vision of life where gender would not be the center of education, things will not settle. Citizen Academy invites you to support the LGBT community by participating in various upcoming events on the LGBT causes, as this gathering the 15th June in memory of the victims (Event Facebook). We also expect many of you during the pride march this Saturday, June 18th. We will come out in the streets in the proudest manifestation and visibility of the […]

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