This research seeks to create a counter-narrative to the story of marginalization of favela’s territory and people. By adopting the perspective of the marginalized as a starting point, the focus is to draw attention to the system, leading people to a new comprehension of it.
The primary approach in this study is Design Action Research, combined with Foresight. The result is a diagram of the system that perpetuates the marginalization and criminalization of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (based on the perceptions of favelados) and a proposal for a cultural shift to move forward to effective, disruptive, and collective changes.