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Group of students and project members pose for a photo in a room. People hold certificates of completion for the Libras classes, while a participant sits on the floor at the front of the group signing in Libras.

Libras: Accessibility and Inclusion in the Campo Grande Territory

The project Libras, the Language of Inclusion offered free Libras classes to the Campo Grande community, with support from Hub Quebrada em Movimento through the Active Citizenship Fund Call for Proposals. Janaína Oliveira's initiative promoted four meetings at Casa de Cultura Itajaí, bringing together students, interpreters, and deaf guests to discuss communication, accessibility, and the barriers faced by the deaf community.

Helen Camillo
Participants in an Active Citizenship Hubs activity gathered around a table as a facilitator leads the session. The group is in a training space with work materials, laptops, and a library in the background.

Data is the new oil. But who holds the key to the safe?

Data can help social projects understand their audiences, evaluate strategies, and make decisions. Drawing on project management experience and training from the Active Citizenship Hubs, this text reflects on who produces, interprets, and uses this information, and on the importance of democratizing data access in local territories.

Marcelo Oliveira
Scene from the film, showing two women, one in the front carrying some things and the other appearing at the gate pointing

Before the final credits: what Cinema na Quebrada set in motion

The Cinema na Quebrada project brought an introductory cinema workshop to residents of Campo Grande, in Campinas. Over 11 classes, ten participants learned different stages of audiovisual production and collectively created the short film A Limbosa, which is still in the finalization process.

Celso Niger
Karla Marques chats with participants at the Movimento Rosalina booth during Campinas Innovation Week 2024.

When the territory also defines what innovation is

The participation of Casa Hacker and Quebrada em Movimento at Campinas Innovation Week 2026 brought initiatives and leaders from the territory closer to discussions on innovation. The presence of Horta do Itajaí, the Na Viela collective, and Karla Marques showed how knowledge, collaborative practices, and everyday experiences are also part of this conversation.

Karla Marques
This image shows a stacked area chart on a light beige dotted background, illustrating the cumulative growth of data migrations over time for the "casa hacker" project. The main chart is divided into six coloured categories with their final volumes shown on the right: core (66, grey), programmes (148, pink), operations (81, blue), money (65, yellow), compliance (57, purple) and archive (19, green). The timeline, running from June to August, highlights three specific peaks of data insertion (with 31, 30 and 29 tables in a single day), while the lower part carries the caption "MIGRATIONS ARRIVING PER DAY" just above a grey bar chart showing the daily, intermittent frequency of these volumes.

The AI that interests us does not answer email: what we did before asking artificial intelligence for a single answer

While the debate about AI splits between productivity tricks and grand promises of social impact, we decided to solve the problem that came first: our own database. This is the account of what we did in eight stages, of the mistakes that measurement disproved, of the privacy rules we did not negotiate. In the end, the base did become accessible to AI — an MCP server with 86 tools, live, without opening the database or loosening a single permission — and what remains are the questions about drop-out and welcome that our data still cannot answer.

Geraldo Barros
Residents and community leaders of several generations pose together in the Hub Quebrada em Movimento space, with boxes bearing the programme's logo in the background.

Hub Quebrada em Movimento and its importance for the territory of Campo Grande

The territory of Campo Grande is a district of the municipality of Campinas/SP, where you find diversity, creativity and the strength of community participation. It is made up of residents who are building their own path every day, bringing improvements to their neighbourhoods, strengthening bonds and creating opportunities to change the reality they live in for the better.

Helen Camillo
A smiling woman holds a certificate and chocolates beside a man with dreadlocks; in the background, a TV shows the slide Mentoria de Quebrada, closing session.

Those who train leaders are transformed by them too

Between May and July, the Hub Cidadania Ativa Quebrada em Movimento ran another edition of the Jornada Formativa, an eight-week pathway for community leaders, impact entrepreneurs and organisations already working in their territories.

Karla Marques
A packed pavilion at the Impacta Mais event, with impact business stands, Mercado Livre and BNDES totems and groups of people wearing badges talking.

When a leader moves, the territory moves with them

Impacta Mais is one of Brazil's main events dedicated to the impact economy, bringing together leaders, organisations, investors and entrepreneurs who drive social and environmental transformation. It took place in São Paulo on 20 and 21 May 2026.

Karla Marques
Four people talking around a round table with a laptop, notebooks, and cell phones in a room with white walls.

When Organizing Is Also Caring

Organizing collective processes can also be a form of care. The experience of dealing with decisions, documents, communication, and conflicts shows how small structures can reduce rework, strengthen trust, and create conditions for people and teams to work with greater autonomy.

Marcelo Oliveira
A cast of all ages poses on stage in front of a hand-painted Hotel Monky sign.

When the CEU becomes a stage

Open-air film screenings in Campo Grande, supported by the Fundo da Quebrada, turned the sky into a stage: accessible culture in the territory and the legacy of people who see themselves in what they watch.

Celso Niger
A man in a red t-shirt, hand on chin, studies his laptop screen in a room with other people.

Hub Integração: when three Hubs become one!

The three Active Citizenship Hubs of Campinas become one: the integration consolidates what has been learned into methodological guides and reorganises the spaces that turn ideas from the territory into collective action.

Celso Niger
A rainbow flag ripples against the sky, the sun shining through the fabric.

The LGBTQIA+ movement and technology

Emily Gomes tells the story of the LGBTQIA+ movement — from Stonewall to Pride Month — and discusses the role of technology and networks in the community's visibility, organisation and achievements.

Geraldo Barros
Seen from behind, a young woman looks out over a virtual plaza of neon signs and fireworks.

What is the metaverse and how will it affect our lives?

Leandro Lacerda explains what the metaverse promised by Zuckerberg is — and why total immersion raises questions that go beyond virtualised interactions: work, affection, consumption and the boundaries between presence and simulation.

Geraldo Barros
In the dark, a man's face is lit by the computer screen that hides his mouth.

The Culture of Disposal: Impacts of Digital Pornography

An essay by Marco Mourão on how the mass consumption of digital pornography shapes relationships and affections in the platform era — from the impacts on mental health and intimacy to the urgent need for critical sex education, consent and healthier representations of sexuality.

Geraldo Barros
A robotic hand and a human hand shake against a violet background.

Is there a limit to the use of Artificial Intelligence?

From the discreet applications to the indiscreet ones, Renata Neves maps out where artificial intelligence is already present in everyday life — and the baggage of ethical, social and regulatory challenges that comes with it.

Geraldo Barros
A woman writes on a sticky note during a workshop, the table covered with papers and coloured notes.

Impact businesses: a double challenge for the quebrada

Starting a business is already hard; starting an impact business in the periphery is doubly challenging. Renata Neves examines the barriers — capital, networks and territory — and the routes for the quebrada to build enterprises with impact.

Geraldo Barros
A human head formed from thousands of blue points of light against a dark background.

The new paradigm of sentience

Leandro Lacerda starts from the story of the orca Tilikum to discuss sentience as a new ethical paradigm: what science already acknowledges about animal consciousness and suffering — and what that demands of us.

Geraldo Barros

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