The Creating Safer Space exhibition will be travelling to Brazil in August. It will be on show in the Arts and Design Department of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) from 12 – 23 August 2024.
An exhibition launch will be held on 14 August from 3-5 pm, and there will be activities with students on 15 and 22 August. The workshops will focus unarmed civilian protection and community self-protection as an alternative protection and security mechanism that does not build on the use or threat of violence, and on the most appropriate – creative and participatory – methodologies to study such protection from below. They will also draw links with Brazil and see in how far Creating Safer Space learnings can be transferred to this setting.
The Creating Safer Space exhibition explores the unexpected power of nonviolence in the protection of civilians living in the midst of violence.
The objects, images, and voices originate from a selection of 26 research projects funded by the Creating Safer Space network, which have been conducted in collaboration between academics, self-protecting communities and nonviolent civilian accompaniers. The exhibition draws on experiences from Cameroon, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, South Sudan, and Thailand, where civilians are harnessing the power of nonviolence to create safer spaces and work towards alternative presents and futures.
The exhibition is also available online in the form of a navigable 360° virtual tour, and it has previously been on show in Nairobi (Kenya), Bangkok (Thailand), Aberystwyth (UK), New York (USA) and Medellín (Colombia).