Media Mentions
Print, TV and radio stories quoting or mentioning CatComm (click here for interviews with and op-eds by our team): Media Mentions 2024 Revista de Cinema – August 20, 2024 [...]
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Vidigal Workshop: Gentrification
On Saturday morning, November 30, 2013, Catalytic Communities and the Vidigal Neighborhood Association held a workshop bringing together twenty-five residents of Vidigal to [...]
RioOnWatch: Our Community News Site
As Rio de Janeiro prepares for the World Cup 2014 and 2016 Olympics, the city is undergoing rapid urban transformations. Private investment, construction and infrastructure [...]
Why You Should Support CatComm Now
September 5, 2013 Dear CatComm Supporter, Thank you for your commitment and interest in Catalytic Communities over the years, supporting our work on behalf of favela [...]
Mapping Current Trends: The Asphalt Frontier
Text and maps by CatComm collaborator and urban planner Jake Cummings, result of his Masters thesis at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in May 2013: The [...]
Brazilian Popular Architecture (APB)
Rainer Hehl is an architect and urban planner. Currently, he directs the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at the ETH, Zürich, where he also runs a theory seminar [...]
2013 Rio Raffle: Recruit & Win
Increase your chances of winning by spreading the word! In past years 30-50% of Rio Raffle donations were thanks to friends and supporters of Catalytic Communities. In [...]
Perceptions Survey
Our 2013 Favela Perceptions Survey Results are Out. Learn what respondents say about [...]
Morar Carioca
City program established in 2010 run by the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Housing Secretariat to “upgrade all favelas in Rio by 2020,” building on historical [...]
Community-Based Sanitation
In July 2013 Catalytic Communities partnered with Solar Cities Solutions, a US-based NGO that has implemented community-based sanitation systems around the world, to bring [...]