the  Tropis' 
memory files

2006-07 home page
last in Tropis' 2nd phase

In all of its phases, Tropis' foundation was always its "mill of ideas" aspect. Besides, from 1993 to 2008 it was always active also in its "laboratory of practices"  aspect - most especially as a convivio or joint-living laboratory - an aspect which will flourish again when required by a new set of concrete conditions.

The initial page presented below (with disabled  external links) is an expression of such "laboratory phase" in the last years Tropis  had its seat on Sao Paulo State's coast (Santos region), as well as during the efforts to bring its activities back to its original environment: the South outskirts of Sao Paulo city.

The page's lower part contains a "what we are" section which is quite meaningful for explaining how the "mill of ideas" aspect is the permanent root, and what is the relationship of Tropis' different practical endeavors to such root.

   

We must
 BE the
 change we
 wish to see
in the world!

M. Gandhi

WHAT we are

•• Portuguese

WHO we are

Trσpis TodAY

Photo-History
Tropis
• Co-Living Education

ψ  before TROPIS ψ

1   1992-1998   1

 idEas

Texts LIBRARY

theory • culture • action

Tropisian Torpedoes

••    Manifests & Protests

everyday culture criticism

2   1999-2000   2

3   2001-2002   3

4   2003-2005   4

Trσpis TODAY

••

the Art
to live in
Circles

workshops

TRΣPIS
Key-Ideas

Groups& Friends
virtual hostel

to make contact

PROJECTS & DEEDS

Archives

 actIons 

22.07.2007

Tropis: people giving SENSE to things

WHAT in fact is Tropis? A NGO?

 

better in
1024 x 768 pixels

more about
 the NAME and

 
KEY IDEAS

keys.html

for Tropis ASSOCIATION's functions••    

obj-estatuto.htm

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

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

 

more about
 the ideias in
 the texts library:
 
biblioteca


how name and grouo came together:

foto-historia1.html

 

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

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)

 

But... what do you do in PRACTICE?

   

hoje

see more about
 what Tropis is doing in each season

in 

Tropis Today

 

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!

• 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

 

things we have done

• 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

• 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 ComGαs

 

SEE it in our

PHOTO
HISTORY

'old times'
 web pages
   

TROPIS'
MEMORY
ARCHIVES

• 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

• 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

 

• 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 

.   .   .

VISUAL DOCUMENTATION

PHOTO-HISTORY

•

WEB PAGES
preserved as documents
SINCE 1998

TROPIS MEMORY ARCHIVES

 

things we
 WILL

 do!



contribute to multiplying

 AUTONOMOUS initiatives

that may wish to refer to our experience (more as an example than as a 'model'!)

- but also...

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

                            . . .

 

Utopian?

SURE!

For it depends on ONE thing
...and that is a MIRACLE:

people
 joining forces
 in a continued way
 and permanent dialogue

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

 

How to get in contact

   

Use E-Mails

*** or tropis@gmail.com

or see more contact information at

WHO WE ARE

Visit also the 
TROPIS Community
at Orkut

 

 

Let's know more about each other?