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CatComm on Participation at Rio’s 2nd International Workshop on Challenges to Local Projects: How to Build Spaces Together

How are we building our cities? Who participates in decisions about city production and management? What are the landscape transformation potentials? These and other issues were addressed in the II International Workshop—Local Project Challenges: [...]
Land Matters Interviews Theresa Williamson on “Slums”

From Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Land Matters Podcast: Over the years, cities have responded to the expansion of informal settlements with a range of policies including eviction and relocation. But some suggest that cities should stop [...]
5th Sustainable Favela Network Exchange of 2019: Sustainable Drumming and Favela Green Roofs

The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm) designed to build and reinforce solidarity networks, bring visibility and develop joint actions to support the expansion of community-based initiatives that [...]
Join CatComm at 2019 Ecocity World Summit in Vancouver

The Ecocity World Summit is the longest-standing international summit that addresses building cities in balance with nature. This year, the Summit will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from October 7-11, 2019. CatComm has participated in the past [...]
What can favelas teach us about bringing empathy home?

Join Catalytic Communities’ Executive Director, Theresa Williamson, and colleagues on September 25th in Denver at the Biennial of the Americas to discuss housing rights, housing innovation and what favelas can teach us about bringing empathy [...]
Washington Post Cover Story: Stolen Lives and Childhoods of Favela Youth

On September 24, 2019, Catalytic Communities’ Executive Director Theresa Williamson was quoted in a Washington Post cover story which CatComm also supported with context and contacts. The article, by Terrence McCoy and Marina Lopes, summarized [...]

CatComm on Participation at Rio’s 2nd International Workshop on Challenges to Local Projects: How to Build Spaces Together

Land Matters Interviews Theresa Williamson on “Slums”

5th Sustainable Favela Network Exchange of 2019: Sustainable Drumming and Favela Green Roofs

Join CatComm at 2019 Ecocity World Summit in Vancouver

What can favelas teach us about bringing empathy home?

Washington Post Cover Story: Stolen Lives and Childhoods of Favela Youth

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