Transforming Atmospheric Authority: Experimental Embodiments in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

与生活在非正式城市社区（“贫民窟”）的妇女一起工作，遭受高度的耻辱，贫困，暴力和人权侵犯，我们的项目探讨了贫民窟居民在挑战和改变城市有时令人窒息的情感氛围中所扮演的角色。该项目探讨了如何体现，非代表性的创造性实践可以使痛苦的经验进行沟通，分享和创造性地转化。发展参与式研究方法，旨在促进尊严和解决孤立和异化的感觉，我们专注于妇女的遭遇与贫民窟的各种气氛：有时紧张，窒息，或可怕的;往往，同时，充满温暖，安全和幽默。工作承认，肯定，并通过它在社区中的妇女已经在寻求克服压力和孤立的感觉放大创造性的做法，我们的研究探讨如何体现文化习俗可以帮助妇女发展新的理解和见解所面临的问题，并减少社区领导和宣传参与的障碍。我们的研究实践旨在使新出现的理解被阐明，分享，并转化为工作，以减少暴力和促进尊严和社区权威的做法。

Working with women living in an informal urban community ('favela') that suffers high levels of stigma, poverty, violence, and human rights abuses, our project explores the role played by favela dwellers in challenging and transforming the sometimes stifling emotional atmospheres of the city. The project explores how embodied, non-representational creative practices can enable distressing experiences to be communicated, shared, and creatively transformed. Developing participatory research methods that aim to foster dignity and tackle feelings of isolation and alienation, we focus on women's encounters with the varied atmospheres of the favela: sometimes tense, stifling, or terrifying; often, simultaneously, full of warmth, security, and humour. Working to recognise, affirm, and amplify creative practices through which women in the community are already seeking to overcome feelings of stress and isolation, our research explores how embodied cultural practices can help women develop new understandings and insights into the issues facing them, and reduce barriers to participation in community leadership and advocacy. Our research practices aim to enable emerging understandings to be articulated, shared, and translated into practices that work to reduce violence and promote dignity and community authority.