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more about
the NAME and
KEY IDEAS
keys.html
for Tropis ASSOCIATION’s functions••
obj-estatuto.htm
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Yes… and no. The organization exists… to give support.
It does not define what we are.
as to an atom
what gives identity to TROPIS is
a nucleus of ideas
as an atom
it is whole & alive when
people AND actions
find articulation & impulse
in these idEas
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a nucleus constituted
by ideas such as …
• a CO-LIVING Philosophy and Pedagogy
whose axis is a formally defined
ABSOLUTE Pluralism
• a Re•Humanization
of Human Life
• an ETHICAL Revolution
in EVERYDAY-LIFE’S Micro-structure
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more about
the ideias in
the texts library:
biblioteca
how name and grouo came together:
foto-historia1.html
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Tropos = direction, SENSE
TROPIS = KEEL
(Greek)
what a tropis does is
(in love & struggle with each wave)
to conquest at every moment
its boat’s rhumb and sense
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being articulated by this ideas-nucleus
ANY activity (or nearly!)
– started by any a person –
can be TROPIS:
social-cultural iniciativeS
(our work has had mostly the form of
activities OF • BY • WITH • AMONG
young people, especially those considered
socially and economically peripherical
but this is just one of the uncountable
forms a tropis may take)
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hoje
see more about
what Tropis is doing in each season
in
Tropis Today
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2006 (southern) Autumn
a moment of redefinitions
in the concrete level, a pause
in the collective enterprises:
with external eyes there is
little to see right now!
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• restarting a TROPIS Community
e working space in Sao Paulo
(which did not exist since May 2003)
• debate and studies group
monthly meetings and internet discussions
• Library: ca. 4000 books + clippings, sound recordings, image archives –
in internal use for the moment
• individual de creation projects in
MUSIC • VISUAL ARTS • VIDEO • THEORY
and/or personal preparation for future projects
• gradual publishing of the Tropis’ theory and experience descriptions
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things we have done
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• intentional CO-LIVING with educational and therapeutic dimensions – since 1993
• knowledge & Arts workshops
theoretical and practical – since 1993
• special courses and care:
> Community Radio Course – 5 months
(with NGO Capacitacao Solidaria)
> Assisted Freedom for sentenced youths
(with government agency + NGO Monte Azul)
• personal counselling (several approaches)
• medical care (antroposophic approach)
• art-therapy atelier
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• Submundo Theatre Group
group I: play Brazil Corner – 1999
group II: play 45 Minutes of Love – 2000
inedited created play : To the Honest Men
• Band PROVISORIO PERMANENTE
creation in contemporary Brazilian song
• RAIZEN GROUP – drawing and manga comics
• production of art evenings and other events
• space for individual creation
in visual arts, music, literature, web design etc.
• theatre interventions in schools
with NGO Aprendiz ComGás
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SEE it in our
PHOTO
HISTORY
‘old times’
web pages
TROPIS’
MEMORY
ARCHIVES
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• Open library: 4000 books, magazines, clippings, sound recordings (ca 1000 LP records and more), image archive
• Debate and Studies Nucleus
> production of theoretical materials
> lectures and debates
> external lectures & workshops:
Sao Paulo, Rio, Ponta Grossa,
Curitiba, Juiz de Fora, Botucatu
• presentations in congresses like
> I USP Education Week – 2000
> III USP Education Week – 2005
> Networks for Global Learning,
Hanover, Germany – 2002
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• physical intervention in degraded city squares
with NGO Alliance for Childhood
• reform of 3 houses by the community group
Sao Paulo, Sao Vicente, Praia Grande
• public computer and internet room
(with NGO Rede Jovem / Comunitas)
• various activities with
Instituto Sou da Paz – NEV-USP
Canal Futura – Elenko-KVA etc.
• web site since 1997
tropis.org domain since 1999
hosting for keen initiatives sites
• materials production and publishing
internet and printed
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• presence in youth’s
local and national events:
Sao Paulo – Salvador – Porto Alegre –
Campinas – Faxinal do Ceu PR –
Botucatu – Ubatuba – Santos
• presence in 3rd Sector exhibitions
highlighting: 2nd place in public preference
among ca.115 exhibitors at
ExpoSolidaria 2002
• promoting and taking part
in events for the development of institutional networking
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VISUAL DOCUMENTATION
PHOTO-HISTORY
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WEB PAGES
preserved as documents
SINCE 1998
TROPIS MEMORY ARCHIVES
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things we
WILL
do!
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contribute to multiplying
AUTONOMOUS initiatives
that may wish to refer to our experience (more as an example than as a ‘model’!)
– but also…
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a permanent center of studies
for the Re-enchantment of Education
within something like an
Eco-Village (without isolationism!)
with something like a Co-Living
Sacial-Pedagogical Hosting
& other activities for income generation in a sociocratic-cooperative organization manner
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SURE!
For it depends on ONE thing
…and that is a MIRACLE:
people
joining forces
in a continued way
and permanent dialogue
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But who said that just
by depending on a miracle
we would give it up?
the initial formulation of these perspectives
was written down in the Oca Mundi Project
(see it in the Tropis’ Memory Files)
a long-term and in-spiral concept
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Use E-Mails
*** or tropis@gmail.com
or see more contact information at
WHO WE ARE
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Visit also the
TROPIS Community
at Orkut
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Let’s know more about each other?
