team

EDGARD GOUVEIA JR.

Livelab Founder and Pedagogical Coordination

Edgard Gouveia Júnior never gets tired of putting people to play. Architect and town planner and specialist in Cooperative Games, he dedicates his path to mobilize children, youth and adults designing and applying virtual and reality games, and collective actions that lead to little communitary revolutions.

He is co-founder of Instituto Elos, the program Guerreiros sem Armas and the game Oasis. He is part of the teams Fellow Ashoka, Berkana Exchange and TRIP Transformadores.

Currently he is a professor in the Cooperative Games post-grad (Youth Initiative Program and MSLS – Sweden, and Knowmads, in Netherlands) and Gaia formation in Brasília and Paraná. He has lectured in several TEDx and is an international consultant in Europe, North America and Asia, where applies technologies such as World Café, Open Space, circular dancing, Nonviolent Communication and the game Oasis.

He is also the creator of Play the Call, a world-wide game online that asks concrete tasks in the real world and intends to engage 2 billion people in four years to restore the equilibrium of the biosphere.

He believes that changing the world can be fast, free and fun.

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PAULO ROBERTO

President

Born on April 6, 1954, he is a medical doctor graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (FMUSP), with a specialization in Pediatrics and improvement in Hospital Administration by Getulio Vargas Foundation. He worked at the University Hospital of USP as a pediatrician and administrator, as an intensivist at the Pediatric ICU of Albert Einstein Hospital and held the position of Executive Director of the Children's Institute at Clinical Hospital, FMUSP.

He was a facilitator of training programs for executives at Amana-Key - Development and Education and at the University of Experience (UEXP). still held the role of President in Children Foundation during construction of the Child Cancer Treatment Institute (ITACI) and was Chairman of the Board of Doctors of Joy Association - Art, Training and Development.

Currently, in addition to maintaining activities as a pediatrician in his private practice, he develops projects in the education area.

"Only a child makes us experience unconditional love."

FLÁVIA LOPES

Financial and administrative support / Secretariat

Graduated in Financial Management at the Centro Universitário Uninter, worked for 9 years in an Accounting company and it was an enriching experience.

MANUELA COLOMBO

Executive Director

With a master's degree in management and public policies by FGV/SP, since 2014, Manuela has been working in different organizations, with project management and coordination, focused in social impact & inclusion.

THAMARA RESENDE

Project Manager

Environmental Engineer and Sanitarist from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), with specialization in Management and Environmental Technologies from the University of São Paulo (USP).

NAYARA COURY

Project Coordinator

Student of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, passionate and curious about social impact, environment, social entrepreneurship and young protagonism. A Journey X player since 2018, she has discovered through X-LAB a powerful tool to play around, transform communities and encourage local revolutions.