Mundano: Trash cart superheroes
マンダノ: ゴミ収集カート、改造大作戦?
Mundano's bold, colorful street art isn't just eye candy. His projects call attention to social, environmental and political issues, while raising chuckles from passersby. Full bio
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たくさんのスーパーヒーローがいます
all superpowers: invisibility.
最悪のスーパーパワーを持っています
materials for a living.
生計を立てている人たちのことです
social inequality, unemployment,
あげられます
waste collection system.
honest and essential work
不可欠な仕事を担っていて
But they are not acknowledged for it.
of all the waste that's actually recycled.
実際にリサイクルされたゴミのうち
selling to junk yards at very low prices.
とても安価で くず物商に売ります
bicycles and carroças.
自分のカバンや ショッピングカート
built from wood or metal
ストリートアートといった感じです
marginalized superheroes.
スーパーヒーロー達に
活動家でもあります
and political in nature.
環境的、政治的なものです
and onto the carroças,
という思いを込めていました
giving voice to the catadores.
「声」を与えようと思いました
it became more appealing,
さらに魅力を増し
to the catadores
on the streets, on mass media and social.
and have not stopped working since.
活動をやめたことはないのです
carroças in many cities
and trips worldwide.
in their invisibility,
カタドールの存在感の薄さは
トルコでも
as the United States and Japan.
先進諸国でさえもカタドールに会いました
to have more people join the cause
もっと必要だと気づきました
movement called Pimp My Carroça --
~Pimp My Carrosa~」です
a large crowdfunded event.
crowdfunded event
カタドールや彼らのカホッサを支援する
professionals and healthcare,
マッサージセラピストなど
hair stylists, massage therapists
支援をしてもらうことができます
それから 街を鮮明に見るための眼鏡の
gloves, raincoats and eyeglasses
by our incredible volunteers.
素晴らしいボランティアの手で
amazing mobile art exhibition.
可動式アート展覧会の一部となるのです
of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba.
サンパウロやリオデジャネイロ
including outside of Brazil,
ほかの都市で開催していくために
which is inspired by TEDx,
を立ち上げました
crowdfunded edition of Pimp My Carroça.
クラウドファンド版のイベントです
800 volunteers and 200 street artists
800人のボランティア
Pimp My Carroça movement,
このイベントに関わってくれました
in teaching recycling at a local school.
リサイクル教育に役立っているそうです
invisibility behind
respected and valued.
高く評価されてきています
they are able to fight back to prejudice,
彼らが偏見に負けることはありません
their interaction with society.
社会との接点も増えるのです
to start looking at and acknowledging
カタドールやその他の見えざる勇者達を
invisible superheroes from your city.
without boundaries or frontiers.
一つのつながりとして見てみてください
catadores worldwide.
of our society.
思い出してあげてください
ご清聴ありがとうございました
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mundano - Graffiti artist + activistMundano's bold, colorful street art isn't just eye candy. His projects call attention to social, environmental and political issues, while raising chuckles from passersby.
Why you should listen
Mundano is a Brazilian street artist and activist whose work makes people stop and think about the issues swirling around them everyday. In 2007, he began using his graffiti skills to paint "carroças," the wooden and metal carts used by the trash collectors throughout Brazil who haul off junk and recyclables. He painted 200 carroças and in the process made these invisible superheroes visible—not only in the streets, but also in the media. The effort led to "Pimp My Carroça," which made this initiative do-it-yourself, crowdfunded and global. It has brought in 170 trash collectors in cities around the world, teaming them up with 200 street artists and 800 volunteers. It is quickly becoming a movement.
At home in Brazil, Mundano works on other projects too. Since 2008, he has used the posters and banners that plaster Brazilian cities during elections to create thought-provoking art. For the election in 2014, he turned these enormous plastic banners into a giant voting booth filled with waste in a square in Rio de Janeiro. "I use these ads to get people to reflect on the corrupted political system. On all the false promises, and all the awful waste," he explains.
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