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The Favela That Disappeared: What Catacumba Teaches Us About Cantagalo’s Future

Where a favela once stood, there is now a park. What Catacumba’s story and 40 years of research tell us about the future of Cantagalo’s youth.

A Few Blocks Away and a World Apart

In Tabajaras, a few blocks from Copacabana, 25 young people now spend their Saturdays in free EduMais English classes. This is only the beginning.

When They See Themselves: The Power of Representation in EduMais

Why it matters that favela students see people like themselves as teachers and mentors, and how peer mentorship fuels ambition at EduMais.

Presenting your work by students of the Summer School Game Design

Game design, art, programming and marketing: students and teachers of the Summer School present what they learned and what they built.

Summer School Favela Rio de Janeiro: @PPGames_plus Instagram is live

The PPGames_plus Summer Course now has its own Instagram. Hear from the people involved what the program is about, starting with Marcello.

EduMais Game Studio is born in Rio de Janeiro

Week 3 of the EduMais game design course: the art, development and design teams swap assignments and start working like a real game studio.

The Art of Storytelling and Story writing and Games

Every good game starts with a good story. In the Educational Game Design course, students dive into a workshop on storytelling and story writing.

Serious Game Design: First game concepts are a fact!

Day three of the Serious Game Design course: working with the Game Design Canvas, the students created their very first game concepts.

Serious Game Design in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro – Day 2 -Making objects for play

Day two of Serious Game Design in Rio’s favelas: MakeyMakey, littleBits and the marshmallow and spaghetti challenge turn play into learning.

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