The cities which are more walkable are accessible, collaborative, fair, sustainable, safe, healthy and fun. We, as an organization, want to be a reference and to encourage the transformation and shared construction of walkable urban environments in different scales (street, neighborhood, city).

SampaPé! was founded in July 2012 as an informal collective carrying out walking tours in São Paulo as a way to improve people’s relationship with the city. Once the group realized that walking is the most used transport in Brazilian cities – besides being the most sustainable, healthy, social, conscious and fun way to be and have access to the city – we understood ourselves as a movement in defense of safe and attractive cities for walking. Hence, we started to work with the concept of walkability and advocacy strategies to promote changes into more walkable cities in Brazil. The biggest success story of this performance was the achievement of Paulista Aberta in 2015 – the most successful open street program in São Paulo –  after more than a year of public mobilization.

In 2017, SampaPé! formalized itself as a non profit (NGO) as a way to expand its performance and impacts, and asserting itself as an organization that works to improve the experience of walking in cities. We expanded our performance out of São Paulo, with projects and methodologies that can be replicated in several cities. We perceive walking not only as an end but as a tool for community engagement, in order to assess the quality of public spaces and to raise political awareness.

We maintain the format of a lean organization that always acts in a multidisciplinary way through the diversity of collaborators and in cooperation with other organizations.

Fiscal councilors: Carolina Igi and Mariana Cruz. Legal Coordinator: Larissa Sabino.

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