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Carlitos’ School is in Brazil, in the city of São Paulo. Carlitos’ School was established in 1980, by pedagoga Manuela Anabuki and today has approximately 500 pupils with ages between 1 and 15 years old. Our educational project values infancy and the adolescence as primordial stages of construction of the identity from the elaboration of representations of the world. Children and adolescents, throught the school life, directed by educators, acquire, by their own activity, different cultural repertories that make them citizens. They extend, socialize, organize and structuralize the knowledge in an environment of systematic and interactive work, characterized by desirable attitudes related to the knowledge and the well-being of everyone.
Carlitos’ School it’s a place where one learns to be, to know and to live with the other and in the future become competent, independent and a responsible citizen. The Art classes at Carlitos’ School take place in an atelier very similar to one of a plastic artist so that the pupils experience the creation process. The artist has his/her idea and from the choice of the material, he/she materializes his/her work of art. In the atelier of the school the children are stimulated to have their own ideas and choose between the offered materials the way they can make their works.
The role of the teacher in the process of creation it is similar to the ones who direct the works. The teacher helps the pupil to carry on their own ideas. Many times the child and/or the adolescent needs or wants to try and make mistakes. And this process is incorporated in their works. Discovering and exploring what they can make with several materials used in the process of artistic creation and learn their characteristics it is part of the most desirible questions of the students.
In the Atelier of the school, we look at the child as one, with his or her own ideas and desires and his or her way of seeing, feeling and imagining. Therefore, the work of each one is not an objective representation but the expression of their emotional reactions with their world and the world that surrounds them. Thus when the adolescent creates, perception, affectivity, cognition and imagination are articulated. The pupil carries on a passage, full of research, discoveries, sensation and make-believe. For the adults that is very difficult to understand, because we want to classify immediately to give meanings and to impose aesthetic standards.

River Tietê

River Tietê is a Brazilian river and is famous nationwide for crossing the state and the city of São Paulo. It is born in Salesópolis in Serra do Mar, in the mountain top which is 1,120 meters high. Although it is only the 22 kilometers far from the coast, the scarps of Serra do Mar compel it to walk in inverse direction, route to the countryside, crossing the state of São Paulo from southeast to the northwest until flow into the lake formed by barrage of Jupiá in Paraná River. Tietê River is 1,150 kilometers long and, in its way, it bathes 62 counties in São Paulo State.
The Tietê appeared when the settlers started to sail in its waters. The river was not called Tietê before. It was named Anhembi, a boriginal name. The Tietê name, in tupi (a dialect), means "true river" or "true waters".
Oldest of known cartographic documents of the River Tietê were made in 1628 by the Governor of Paraguay D. Luiz de Céspedes Xeria.

Springs of the River Tietê
The springs are in the ‘Park Nascentes do Rio Tietê’, that is located in the city of Salesópolis. It is 134 hectares, of which 9,6 hectares are under ambient control, protecting several springs that will form the most important river of the State of São Paulo.

Located in district of Pedra Rajada, 17 km of the center of Salesópolis, next to the border of the city of Paraibuna. Initially in the hands of ordinary citizens, its original flora was destroyed. Under the supersvision of the the State, its area was recovered, presenting secondary forest now. The springs appear between rocks that tip a very small lake. The water sprouts in three different points and the lake has small fishes named guarus. A few meters of its spring, a spillway allows to measure the volume of water generated for the freático sheet.
A mural in the local of the spring supplies some data to the River Tietê. In the indicated date, it is verified that the springs had produced 3m³ of water per hour. River Tietê receives the contribution from some freáticos sheets, becoming a stream of raised volume of water, in the small passage that it covers.

Still inside of the city of Salesópolis, one of the first hydroelectric company built in Brazil is the current Park of Salesópolis Plant. Constructed in 1912 by the old Light, used to generate energy from a fall of 72meters high in the River Tietê. Currently the park is closed for the public visitation and it is intended to reactivate the generation of electric energy. The old machinery are still there.

Tietê crosses the Metropolitan São Paulo and covers 1,100 kilometers throughout the interior of the state, until the city of Itapuna, in its estuary in the River Paraná, in the border of Mato Grosso do Sul.

In the city of São Paulo, Tietê is bordered by the express way named Marginal, that along with Marginal Pinheiros, is the main road system of the city (according to São Paulo’s oficial traffic company (CET) it is estimated that 2.000.000 vehicles pass daily along the two expressways – Marginal Tietê and Marginal Pinheiros).

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Rio Tietê
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Art Workshop

The invitation of the British Council to participate in the project Rivers of the World was received with great enthusiasm by the school.

In partnership with the Educative Service of MASP under the coordination of Paulo Portela Filho together with the art-facilitators Roberta F. and Keila Alaver, we started the work on the river Tietê with the 9th graders Carlitos School.

The project of the school has as main theme "River of the Work", which we are going to study the ways of requalification of its use, as a way for its renewal and posterior sustentability.

The work with the students began in March of 2008 alternation classes with the teacher of Arts of the school and workshops with the art-facilitators of MASP. The lessons aim at the sensibility of the pupils to the subject, so that they may be able to discuss and debate the creation process and select works, which are more significant, culminating with the production of a great artistic panel.

In our first class of the project, we did, with the pupils, a brainstorm of ideas and hypotheses on the River Tietê. We talked about:

1. The pollution that affects the river and why this happens.
2. Is it possible the River Tietê become a total navigable river, being used for the transport of load and passengers inside of the region metropolitan of São Paulo?
3. The industries that generate work, but also pollution.
4. Project Orchard: attempts to become visually attractive the margins of the river.

In a second meeting, with the art-facilitators giving directions for the students, showed how the project was made, commenting the partnership of the British Council, MASP, the partner schools of São Paulo, and how the Rivers Project started in London. They pointed out that the project of Art that uses the river as its main theme.

Later a group dynamics was done, where the pupils had to deprive the characteristics the space of the atelier. After this we had a colloquy on the reorganization of the space. The students then had to make 4 sculptures/installations with disassembled boards and tables.

When speaking on each installation we perceived that the works did not have only one formal question, but also concepts of moral, social, balance, symmetry, fragility... commented by the students when presenting their installations.

In the third activity, the proposal was the experimentation of graphical materials (hydrographic pens, colored pencils, graphite pencil, oily and dry crayon...)

The students made their drawings, some already focused in the subject River of the Work. All the drawings were placed in the wail for appreciation and commentaries in group.

In the fourth activity, the art-facilitators in a conversational class asked the students to sit around the sucatas. The pupils had:

1. to organize and to separate the sucatas by type.
2. after the organization, to choose the sucatas for their work.

The pupils, then had to work in groups to create objects related to the subject of the river.

In May we will continue the development of the work forming an individual repertory, and in June collectively finish the panel that will be displayed in London.

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Exhibition - coming soon.......