Pasar de la Favela

The taking down of the Freezing Favela

6 Sep 2013

The Mediamatic Fabriek has to say goodbye to the Favela Citizens who build up a temporary city in de Van Gendthallen. You are free to take over their leftovers, stashed in the container at the V.O.C.-kade 10.

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Pigeon Tower - Building stones of the Pigeon Tower, one of the projects of Freezing Favela.

It is not freezing at all anymore in the Freezing Favela. Because of the good weather and the old building structures, without any air conditioning, the temperatures of the Mediamatic Fabriek rose to South-American conditions.

One by one the citizens are leaving. Some of their buildings will remain for a following project, some of them are builded up somewhere else and other just end up in pieces in the container. These pieces are picked up by others, what makes this project in a sense a never ending project. The Favela will be rebuild somewhere else, combined with other structures by other people, over and over again.

Till the 6th of September the citizens got the time to move. Friday there will be the final goodbye, celebrated within the inner circle. People who are interesting in picking up some pieces Favela are welcome to look in the container.