From 2013 to 2018 a group of artists called our group interventions on the right to the city in the center of São Paulo by the project name, Lanchonete(.)org. Along the way we acquired a small bar on a denigrated yet swiftly gentrifying street in the center of São Paulo as nucleus for artist and urbanist residencies, community meals, open courses, concerts, murals, public health campaigns and a radio station.

Lanchonete(.)org welcomed 100 residents over five years. It began as an idea with Raphael Daibert and grew to include a rotating cast of local artists including BAIXO CENTRO, Cidades Sem Fome, Ocupação São João, Gabriela Baraúna, Isabel Gandia, Thiago Gonçalves, Rodrigo Bueno, EXPLODE!, Marcelo Ferreira, Paula Querido Van Erven, Lorena Vicini, MARGEM, Laura Davina, Daniel Lühmann, Joel Borges, and many others.

The lunch counter or lanchonete–aka Bar do Tarcísio–lives on. Tarcísio has been its manager for forty years now. The public space project now spills onto the internal roadway of Conjunto Santos Dumont where trash formerly fell regularly, and goes by the name Arraiá da Paim. The address is Rua Paim 235 (Loja 3); please come visit.