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Inspired by a range of ideas, people and movements – e.g. Walking in the City, Social Sculpture, Arte/Cidade, Artist Placement Group, Bolaño, The Situationist International, Third Cinema, Subaltern Studies – the Lanchonete project celebrates São Paulo‘s ubiquitous lunch counters and their role in the life of the Center. Lanchonete.org invites a group of international artists to reside in – and thus develop a relationship with – the Center of São Paulo, its citizens, institutions, issues and patterns. Begun as a research process, the project materializes into a community-owned restaurant over its five-year duration, and leaves behind a management structure - Associação Espaço Cultural Lanchonete - to contend with the inherent responsibilities of such an endeavor.