P.A.P.A.Lab Sao Paulo Brazil didl take place from 7th till 29 th of November 2009. The hosting organisation is freeDimensional.

P.A.P.A. Lab Sao Paulo correspondents: Zé Carlos Barretta, Giovana Pasquini (Jô), Ines Correa, Marcelo Ferrelli, Sylvia Sanchez, Felipe Denuzzo, Flávio Sampaio, Luciana Camargo (Luh). All members of Fotomix.

PAPA was an observer at the IX International Human Rights Colloquium. Researching the possibilty of art to develop actions for human rights issues. P.A.P.A. gave a lecture about errorism (the new human right to make mistakes) at Human Rights Colloquium on November the13th 2009 .

The photowalks to reveal patterns in public space will run from the 16th of November till the 7th of December.
The team running P.A.P.A.Lab Sao Paulo is apart from Lino Hellings, Ângela Destro, assistent and Rob van Maanen, text translation and correspondent.

Patterns we found:
Pattern 1 City as canvas
The very first thing you notice as a foreigner are the murals and other expressions in paint and/or sculpture everywhere in the city. As large scale ads are forbidden in this city it looks like the people took over and painted every single empty wall. see the pictures: Giovana Pasquini Marcelo Ferrelli Ines Correa Lino Hellings
Pattern 2 the Brazilian way to make things easier.
Jeitinho is an important notion. It is not only negative (corruption, to take advantage, etc) but also has a positive side, indicating three caracteristics of jeitinho: ingenuity/creativity, solidarity and the conciliator role of it. ‘The Brazilian individual would have developed a historical predisposition to informality’.Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda. In the book “Raizes do Brasil” (”Brazilian Roots”) See the catadores.Men and women with dustcars collecting recycable waste from the street.
Pattern 3 Public territories
There are great public spaces designed by architects that work really well like lina Bo Bardi’s sports and culture building and Centre Cultural. There is a lot of sleeping in public spaces here as in Lagos Nigeria. In a wide variety between heavenly surrendering in siesta sleep in well designed public spaces and the comatose sleep of homeless children on the doorstep of a citybank.
Pattern 4 Street economics
Maybe not so much as in Lagos Nigeria, but there is still quite some mobile business going on. Mobile business men: the key chain holder and a scissors-grinder have their bicycle as the mechanism to get the knifes sharpened of the restaurant in the area. Felipe Denuzzo Ines Correa