Food & GardenBrasiliaWalk Brasília's living agroforest galleryWalk Brasília's living agroforest gallery Cultiva Lab turns about 6,200 m² between SESI Lab and the Biblioteca Nacional into an open-air agroecology laboratory. Roughly 90 species from four Brazilian biomes (Cerrado, Amazônia, Mata Atlântica, Caatinga) grow together to answer one question in public: can you restore an ecosystem and produce food on the same piece of ground? What you can do - Walk the Cultiva Lab gallery and read its four growth phases as they unfold: pioneer species and first harvests, then ecological succession, vegetation layering, and a mature canopy - Look for the short-cycle food crops planted between the large trees (corn, squash, cassava, vegetables, medicinal herbs) and for the sensors that track soil and climate - Follow the pedagogical trails and mediated activities on soil regeneration, biodiversity, food security, and the relationship between city and nature - Trace circular economy in practice on site: water, nutrient, and material flows are routed back through the system to cut waste How it works The technical design came from IPOEMA (Instituto de Permacultura), structured by forest engineer Cláudio Jacintho, and was approved by IPHAN and the urban-planning bodies. The plot sits inside the GDF Adote uma Praça programme and feeds SESI Lab STEAM and CTSA education. Entry follows museum ticketing, including free first-Sunday admission (Visite). Over five years the project plans residencies for 50 artists and 50 researchers working on soil regeneration, carbon capture, and agroforestry systems. Why it matters The numbers are stated honestly. About 3 to 5 tonnes of food in the first two years go to ten social institutions in the Distrito Federal, and the system is expected to capture roughly 10 tonnes of CO2e a year against the some 700 tonnes the museum's own activity generates. Cultiva Lab is not sold as an offset: it is a measured public experiment showing that food, forest, and culture can share the same ground in the middle of a capital. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: Exposições / Cultiva Lab · Visite · Partner context: Adote uma Praça (GDF). Production, carbon, and residency figures fact-checked against launch coverage: G1 DF, CNI. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Hortas urbanas serão financiadas pelo Funam (19633082372).jpg) (CC BY 2.0, Agência Brasília).agroecologyagroforestrybiodiversity +2
CommunityBrasiliaAdopt a public square in the DFAdopt a public square in the DF The Governo do Distrito Federal programme Adote uma Praça lets residents, companies, and institutions maintain and improve plazas, gardens, roundabouts, and other public spaces through formal cooperation terms. Cultiva Lab itself sits in this programme: civic care making the capital greener and shadier block by block. What you can do - Read the programme overview on the GDF Adote uma Praça page - Download forms and the adopter manual from SEPE documentos - File a request at your Administração Regional or via E-Protocolo for a square you want to steward - Partner with neighbours or a local organisation on native planting, shade trees, water infiltration, lighting, or accessibility How it works SEPE coordinates terms of cooperation after Seduh viability checks. Hundreds of spaces across the DF have been adopted; officials cite more than 200 active spaces citywide. Adoption is voluntary maintenance and improvement, not ownership of public land. Why it matters Shade, permeable ground, and native species are the cheapest climate adaptation a hot inland capital has, and a tended square is where neighbours meet the people they will build the rest with. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Adote uma Praça: GDF · Forms: SEPE: Documentos do programa. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Praca Portugal BSB 03 (public domain, Luis Dantas).plazacivicgardening +2
EnergyBrasiliaWeigh Brazil's energy transition at SESI LabWeigh Brazil's energy transition at SESI Lab Each cycle SESI Lab picks one transversal theme and runs it through exhibitions, educational activities, teacher training, publications, and technical partnerships. For 2025 and 2026 that theme is energy and the energy transition, which turns the museum on the Monumental Axis into a public room for working out how Brazil powers itself. What you can do - See which energy exhibitions and activities are running now on Exposições and the daily programação - Read the free digital curation Eficiência Energética: Aerogeradores, which connects electricity, renewable sources, and the form and function of a wind turbine - Walk the permanent Imaginando Futuros gallery, built to make visitors question the choices and decisions that shape the future (acervo digital) - Watch for the free course for education professionals on energy and sustainability, and for Night Lab evenings that take up the annual theme How it works The theme travels through the whole programme rather than sitting in one room. The interactive show Energia, Sou Watt? placed visitors at ten stations balancing economic growth, social justice, and environmental protection while deciding policy on nuclear power, mobility, production, and housing; it closed on 7 September, so treat it as a format to ask for rather than a live ticket. The Festival Energia brought five free public panels to Brasília: energy scenarios and transition, science communication and the climate emergency, decarbonisation and mobility, climate justice and sustainable development, and art and the climate emergency. Why it matters An energy transition is settled by people who can picture the trade-offs. A museum that hands you the dilemma instead of the conclusion builds exactly the civic muscle that climate policy runs on. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: Exposições · O SESI Lab · Acervo: Eficiência Energética / Aerogeradores. Festival and course detail fact-checked against CNI Agência de Notícias da Indústria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Imagens do Brasil: Energia eólica.jpg) (CC BY 2.0, Agência Senado).energytransitionclimate +2
Repair & ReuseBrasiliaBuild circuits and learn energy efficiencyBuild circuits and learn energy efficiency SESI Lab's Maker and Biomaker rooms teach energy through your hands. In Construindo circuitos com massinha, participants sculpt modelling clay, test which materials conduct, light an LED, and end up talking about careful use of electricity. The oficina sits on the museum's Eficiência Energética thematic axis and its CTSA framing asks participants to propose their own conscious-consumption actions. What you can do - Check the programação and register for the day's oficinas at opening time (box office, kiosks, or the official ticket platform) - Read the open workshop records and tutorials in the acervo, such as circuitos com massinha and insetos elétricos, then rebuild them in a classroom or at home - Ask about Maker and Biomaker sessions and short courses through O SESI Lab - Use the same recipes to start a household conversation about where the electricity actually goes How it works Places are limited and filled by arrival order; some activities hand out passwords about 30 minutes before the start. Biomaker is presented as a rare public lab of its kind in Brazil. Each oficina is published in the digital acervo with its curricular links, references, and a build tutorial, so the recipes stay usable far outside the museum. Why it matters Closing your first circuit is where energy stops being a bill and becomes something you can reason about: what conducts, what wastes, and what you can repair yourself. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: O SESI Lab (Maker e Biomaker) · Programação · Workshop record: Construindo circuitos com massinha. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Arduino Uno - R3 (CC BY-SA 3.0).makerelectronicsworkshop +2
CommunityBrasiliaBridge peripheries through Diálogos com TerritóriosBridge peripheries through Diálogos com Territórios Diálogos com Territórios is SESI Lab's inclusion programme, linking the museum with cultural groups and social organisations from Brasília's peripheries. Residencies combine maker skills, audiovisual work, entrepreneurship, accessibility, and environmental education so communities co-create the science culture instead of only receiving it. What you can do - Watch SESI Lab programming and news for open showcases, oficinas, and calls tied to Diálogos - Follow O SESI Lab educational programmes if your collective works with youth, culture, accessibility, or environmental education - Attend the free public showcases when residencies close (past cycles have produced games, prototypes, publications, and performances) - Connect partner organisations (coverage cites groups such as Jovem de Expressão and Casa Akotirene) through the museum's education team How it works Selected DF groups join mentored residencies with dozens of formation hours, then share results with the public. Cycles are periodic, so treat each closing date as a window into an ongoing programme rather than a single ticketed festival. Why it matters Climate and energy decisions land hardest on the edges of a city. A museum that runs its environmental education with those neighbourhoods, not about them, is how science culture stops being a downtown privilege. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: O SESI Lab · Programação. Programme context also summarised in SESI Lab institutional materials (2025 to 2026). Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Brasília - antigo Tourin Clube 53 (CC BY-SA 4.0, Sintegrity).inclusionresidencyculture +2
CommunityBrasiliaHost the travelling SESI Lab near youHost the travelling SESI Lab near you SESI Lab Itinerante packs about ten interactive apparatuses plus a workshop area so the museum experience can travel across the Distrito Federal and other Brazilian states. Schools and local partners can request the kit and add teacher formation shaped to local needs, and everything the museum builds is mirrored in a free digital acervo. What you can do - Explore the travelling exhibits and oficinas in the acervo Itinerante - Ask your school network, municipal culture desk, or SESI regional office how to host a stop - Rebuild the workshop recipes (light badges, motor cars, electric insects, conductive dough) in a classroom, using the published tutorials - Run the free digital exhibition BioOCAnomia Amazônica with students: it puts bioeconomy, biodiversity conservation, and reducing climate change impacts at the centre of Amazonian development How it works The itinerant set carries a slice of the long-duration exhibition and of the educational action programme. Hosts negotiate dates and training with SESI Lab, so there is no permanent street pin because the venue moves. The digital acervo stays open to anyone with a connection, at no cost. Why it matters Inquiry science should not stop at the Rodoviária. A travelling lab plus an open archive lets a distant classroom touch the same phenomena, and reuse the same lesson, as the Esplanada galleries. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab Acervo: Itinerante · Acervo Digital · O SESI Lab. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Sesi Lab é aberto ao público nesta quarta-feira (30).jpg) (CC BY 2.0, Agência Brasília).itinerantschoolseducation +2
BrasiliaData a definirWalk the Cultiva Lab agroforestWalk the Cultiva Lab agroforest An open-air agroecology laboratory of about 6,200 m² between SESI Lab and the Biblioteca Nacional, planted with roughly 90 species from the Cerrado, Amazônia, Mata Atlântica, and Caatinga, and designed to regenerate soil while it produces food. How it works Enter with a SESI Lab ticket or on the free first Sunday of the month. Walk the pedagogical trails, find the short-cycle food crops growing between the trees and the monitoring sensors that follow soil and climate cycles, and check exposições for the mediated activities matched to the current growth phase. When & where - Setor Cultural Sul, Bloco A, Asa Sul, Brasília-DF, CEP 70070-150 (beside Rodoviária do Plano Piloto) - Outdoor gallery between SESI Lab and Biblioteca Nacional (approximate pin for the garden edge) - Recurring: Tue–Fri 9h–18h (entry until 17h); Sat, Sun, holidays 10h–19h (entry until 18h). Free first Sunday of the month. Confirm on Visite. Why it matters The harvest goes to ten social institutions in the DF, and the carbon and soil measurements are published as research rather than sold as an offset. Regeneration becomes something you can check on during a walk downtown. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: Exposições / Cultiva Lab · Visite. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Hortas urbanas serão financiadas pelo Funam (19633082372).jpg) (CC BY 2.0, Agência Brasília).
BrasiliaData a definirBuild a circuit at a same-day maker oficinaBuild a circuit at a same-day maker oficina Drop into a SESI Lab oficina that teaches circuits, motion, and materials by making them. Registration opens on the day the activity runs and places are limited. How it works From museum opening, register on the official ticket platform, at the physical box office, or at a self-service kiosk. Some activities distribute passwords about 30 minutes before the start at reception. See programação for what is on each day, and the acervo for the build tutorial to take home. When & where - Setor Cultural Sul, Bloco A, Asa Sul, Brasília-DF, CEP 70070-150 (Maker and Biomaker rooms inside the museum) - Recurring: during museum hours; check the daily calendar - Always confirm the day's oficinas before travelling Why it matters A same-day workshop removes the registration barrier, and the published tutorial means the skill leaves the building with you. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: Programação · Visite. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Arduino Uno - R3 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
BrasiliaData a definirBring a class into the Cultiva Lab agroforestBring a class into the Cultiva Lab agroforest Schools and social institutions can schedule a visit that uses the living agroecology system as the classroom: ecological succession, soil regeneration, biodiversity, food security, and the relationship between city and nature. How it works Declare interest through the educational-visit pathway on Visite; the education team confirms according to open slots. Visits currently run in a self-guided format with reception and orientation, and free transport is offered to public schools and nonprofit institutions in the DF subject to date availability. At launch, organisers described scheduled student groups joining harvests and species workshops as the system matures. When & where - Setor Cultural Sul, Bloco A, Asa Sul, Brasília-DF, CEP 70070-150 (Cultiva Lab is the outdoor area toward the Biblioteca Nacional) - Recurring: by appointment within museum opening hours - Transport support for DF public schools and nonprofits depends on availability Why it matters Students who plant, measure, and harvest in the middle of the capital learn that a city can help feed and repair itself, not only consume. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: Visite (visitas educativas) · Exposições / Cultiva Lab. Student harvest detail fact-checked against launch coverage: CNI. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Jardim Botânico de Brasília, outubro de 2023 (1).jpg) (CC BY-SA 4.0, Fronteira).
BrasiliaData a definirJoin a Night Lab evening on the energy themeJoin a Night Lab evening on the energy theme Once a month SESI Lab stays open after dark for an adult audience, with a line-up built around the museum's annual theme. Recent editions have taken up energy and the energy transition. How it works Each Night Lab is announced on the programação with its own oficinas, gallery activations, and conversations, so check the calendar and ticketing for the edition before travelling. Recent editions have fallen on the first Thursday of the month. When & where - Setor Cultural Sul, Bloco A, Asa Sul, Brasília-DF, CEP 70070-150 - Recurring: one evening per month for adult visitors; confirm date and tickets per edition - One recent edition ran on the energy theme alongside the free Festival Energia panels Why it matters Arguments about how a country powers itself belong somewhere adults can show up after work, disagree in public, and still leave having built something. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SESI Lab: Programação · O SESI Lab. Energy edition detail fact-checked against CNI Agência de Notícias da Indústria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Brasília - antigo Tourin Clube 03 (CC BY-SA 4.0, Sintegrity).
