Shifting Grounds
Ginjal, From Rubble to Renewal: A Riverfront at a Crossroads
As Almada transforms its shoreline, the battle for public space, cultural memory, and inclusive urban futures begins anew.
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Street Syntax
On One Wheel: The Art, Risk, and Resistance of Brazil’s Grau Culture
Where the front wheel lifts, gravity breaks—and for a moment, the street becomes a stage for survival, style, and defiance.
System Hacks
Memes, Machines, and Manipulation: How Elections Are Being Digitally Hijacked
From Brazil to beyond, the battle for democracy has moved from Congress and streets to pixels—crafted by code, sharpened by memes, and increasingly fueled by artificial intelligence.
Street Syntax
From the Pitch to the Page: Who Gets to Belong?
From the stadium to the classroom, from colonial Mozambique to Amadora’s streets—Portugal’s long entanglement with Black lives reveals not inclusion, but appropriation, suspicion, and silence.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Uncredited and Iconic: Mirthes Bernardes and the Urban Footprint
You don’t need a museum to see the work of Mirthes Bernardes. It’s beneath your feet.
Shifting Grounds
Tourists Welcome, Tenants Evicted: The Cartography of Displacement
How Airbnb transforms neighborhoods into tourist zones, creating “dead zones” where locals can’t afford to live but tourists cluster.
Sonic Cartographies
Kuduro: Born from War, Beaten by Progress?
Between improvisation and export, a street-born sound finds itself remixed — or replaced.
Coded Dreams
The Future Was Always Ours: Inside the Radical Dreamscape of Favela Futurism
The favela was never a failure. It was a prototype. An open-source operating system written in blood, rhythm, memory, and joy. And now, it’s rewriting the code of the future.
Ancestral Echoes
The Power of Absence — How Anonymous Rebels, Afro-Futures, and Cannibal Poetics Are Rewriting Empire
In a world obsessed with likes, faces, and personal brands, some voices are choosing to disappear. Not out of fear, but out of intention.