{"id":623,"date":"2019-03-28T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T19:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.168.5.64\/edgardgouveia\/?p=623"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:47:50","slug":"o-arquiteto-que-ergueu-pontes-entre-as-pessoas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edgardgouveiajr.com.br\/en\/o-arquiteto-que-ergueu-pontes-entre-as-pessoas\/","title":{"rendered":"The architect who has built bridges between people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trip Transformadores<\/a> by Trip News<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At 48 years old, Santos resident, Edgard Gouveia J\u00fanior doesn\u2019t get tired of getting people to play. Architect, urbanist and postgraduate in cooperative games, he dedicates his career to mobilize kids, young people and adults with virtual games, scavenger hunts and group activities that end in small community revolutions.<\/p>\n

After enabling the physical revitalization of Santos Fishing Museum, in S\u00e3o Paulo, and after the completion of his degree he founded the Elos Institute and he has never stopped making things happen since. In 2008, his social methodology plays named \u2018Oasis\u2019 helped to revitalize, with the participation of more than three thousands young ones from different regions of Brazil, 12 communities affected by Itaja\u00ed River flooding, in Santa Catarina.<\/p>\n

In five days, almost one thousand college students selected to the in-person project phase built 43 public facilities. Bridges, playgrounds, stands, soccer fields and even a motocross track were built. Quick, funny and without putting their hands in their pockets. \u201cPlaying, everybody is an entrepreneur,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Founder of Warriors without weapons program (Guerreiros sem armas \u2013 GSA), that fosters the energy of young promoters, Edgard has broadened his scale of action, which now aims to be global. Although the project Oasis has already over 90 replication points around the world, he launched, in December 2012, Play the Call, an online world scavenger hunt which has concrete tasks in the real world and aims to engage 2 billion people in 4 years.<\/p>\n

He believes he might reach this goal playing.<\/p>\n