Who we areAN OUT-0F-THE-BOX COMPANY, innovatingin the creative economy, culture, BUSINESS & CITIES
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31 COUNTRIES
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201 CITIES
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225 CLIENTS
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16 YEARS
we belong to a global network
of creative and innovative experts
Garimpo de Soluções, a Brazilian company of global reach, actively innovating in creative economy, culture, cities, and businesses since 2003, has been performing a pioneer work in the relationship between such themes and the future of work.
Daring and bold, Garimpo designs their projects internally but also in an on-demand partnership with renowned professionals, both nationally and internationally.
WE BELIEVE
We believe in changes
We trust the power of brands to change tracks
We know everyone makes a difference
We estimulate brands, governments and institutions to rethink themselves
We help to build the cities all of us will make
Our difference is to turn actions into changes
OUR PARTNERS ACROSS THE GLOBE
national and international
Clients
- Abaçaí
- ABERJE
- ADEMI Bahia
- Agência de Desenv. Econômico de S. João da Boa Vista
- AHH Editora
- Alecrim Produções Artísticas
- AMCHAM Fortaleza
- ANPEI
- Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
- Artekula
- Artserve Fort Lauderdale
- Asociación Chilena de Agencias de Publicidad
- Associação Brasileira de Arte Contemporânea
- Associação Brasileira de Embalagem
- Associação Brasileira de Gestão Cultural
- Associação Brasileira da Indústria de Hotéis
- Associação Comercial e Industrial de Florianópolis
- Associação Cultural de Amigos do Museu Casa de Portinari
- Associação Cultural Kinoforum
- Associação Cultural Sempre um Papo
- Assoc. de Engenheiros e Arquitetos de S. José dos Campos
- Associação dos Gestores de Ibirataia
- Associação Empresarial de Criciúma
- Associação Nóbrega de Educação e Assistência Social
- Associação Paulista dos Amigos da Arte
- Balti Juhtimiskonverents
- Banco da Amazônia
- Banco do Brasil
- Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento
- Banco Votorantim
- Belas Artes
- Biennial of the Americas
- BNDES
- Bogotá Naranja
- Bossa Nova Filmes
- Brasilturis
- Brazimage
- British Council
- Bunkyo
- The C-Town Corporation Puerto Rico
- Câmara Brasileira do Livro
- Câmara de Comércio Árabe-Brasileira
- Câmara Municipal de Idanha-a-Nova
- Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
- Canal RH
- Casa da Cultura de Israel
- Casa do Saber
- CEMEC
- Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
- Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología de Antioquia
- Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
- Cineteca Alameda San Luis Potosí
- CLAEH Uruguay
- Comgás
- Confederação Nacional de Municípios
- Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Goiás
- Conselho dos Municípios Lindeiros ao Lago de Itaipu
- Consulado Geral dos Países Baixos
- Cooperativa Paulista de Dança
- Creative Business Cup
- Duo Informação e Cultura
- El País
- Empresa Baiana de Jornalismo
- Empresa Paulista de Notícias
- Engie
- EPTV
- Escola São Paulo
- Escola Superior de Advocacia
- Escuela de la Producción y la Competitividad La Paz
- Estúdio Madalena
- Expocine
- ExpoGestão
- Expoideia
- Fecomercio MG
- Fecomercio SP
- Federação das Associações Empresariais de Santa Catarina
- Feira Internacional de Negócios, Inovação e Tecnologia
- Ferreira Paim Consultores
- Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
- Fiat do Brasil
- FIEB
- FIERGS
- FIPE
- Fira Barcelona
- Flamingo
- Fliaraxá
- FLIP
- FMC Corporation
- Foro Internacional de Ciudades Globales
- Forum Desenvolve Londrina
- Fórum Empresarial da Bahia
- Fórum de Liderança B+
- Fórum Londrina Criativa
- Fundação Brasileira de Teatro
- Fundação de Apoio da Universidade Federal do RS
- Fundação Carlos Alberto Vanzolini
- Fundação de Cultura e Comunicação Elias Mansour
- Fundação de Cultura de Mato Grosso do Sul
- Fundação Cultural Cassiano Ricardo
- Fundação Cultural de Jacarehy
- Fundação Getulio Vargas
- Fundação Gilberto Freyre
- Fundação João Mangabeira
- Fundação Pedro II
- Fundação Telefônica
- Fundação Teotônio Vilela
- Fundação Volskwagen
- Fundación Cutura em Proyectos Argentina
- A Gazeta
- GIFE
- Grupo RBS
- Harmonia Urbanismo
- Honda
- Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz
- IBRAM
- Inova Sorocaba
- Instituto ACM
- Instituto Bem Cultural
- Instituto Caracol
- Instituto Choque Cultural
- Instituto Cultural Ingá
- Instituto EDP Energias do Brasil
- Instituto Gandarela
- Instituto Internacional para la Innovación Empresarial
- Instituto Itaú Cultural
- Instituto Lato Sensu
- Instituto Pensar
- Instituto Pensarte
- Instituto Serrano de Economia Criativa
- Instituto Telemig Celular
- IPEA
- IPHAN
- J. Leiva
- Lew Lara TBWA
- LFCD Consultoria
- LIDE
- Lynx
- Ministério da Cultura
- Ministerio de Cultura de Chile
- Ministerio de Cultura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
- Monash University
- Motion Pictures Association
- Museu das Minas e do Metal
- Natura
- Objetivo Sorocaba
- Odebrecht
- Oficina del Historiador La Habana
- Organização Internacional do Trabalho
- Organização dos Estados Iberoamericanos
- Ópera Eventos Corporativos
- Opium Portugal
- Otima
- Papaterra Editora
- Pátria Invesimentos
- Pedra Branca
- Perestroika
- Poiesis
- Prefeitura de Alvorada
- Prefeitura de Botucatu
- Prefeitura de Bragança Paulista
- Prefeitura de Cubatão
- Prefeitura de Recife
- Procuradoria Geral da Justiça
- Recicleiros
- Rede Tribuna
- Sala de Cultura
- Santander
- SEBRAE
- SEBRAE AC
- SEBRAE AL
- SEBRAE AM
- SEBRAE BA
- SEBRAE CE
- SEBRAE DF
- SEBRAE ES
- SEBRAE GO
- SEBRAE MG
- SEBRAE MT
- SEBRAE PB
- SEBRAE PI
- SEBRAE RJ
- SEBRAE RN
- SEBRAE TO
- SECOVI SP
- Secretaria da Cultura do Ceará
- Secretaría de Cultura de Mendoza
- Secretaria da Cultura do Paraná
- Secretaria da Cultura do Rio de Janeiro
- Secretarida da Cultura de Goiânia
- Secretaria da Cultura de São Paulo
- Sec. de Cultura, Turismo, Empreend. e Inovação do MS
- Secretaria de Turismo de Porto Alegre
- SENAC SC
- SENAC SP
- SESC RO
- SESC SP
- SESI
- SESI BA
- SESI MG
- SESI PB
- SESI PR
- SESI RJ
- Shanghai Jiaotong University
- Siemens Healthineers
- Signorini Marketing
- Talenta365
- Tantum Group
- Televisão América Latina
- O Tempo
- UNCTAD
- UNDP South-South Cooperation Special Unit
- UNESCO
- União Brasiliense de Educação e Cultura
- UNIFRA
- Universidad de las Artes Guayaquil
- Universidad de Cádiz
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
- Universidade da Experiência
- Unochapecó
- Via de Comunicação
- Vigliecca
- Ville de Montréal
- Virada Sustentável
- Votorantim
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FULL CVDr. Ana Carla Fonseca is a Public Manager from Fundação Getulio Vargas/FGV, where she graduated at the age of 20; Economist; MSc. cum laude in Management and Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Universidade de São Paulo, where she presented the first thesis in Brazil on creative cities, later appointed by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism the best practical thesis of the biennium. She is also a guest professor in Brazil (FGV and Sala de Cultura) and Argentina (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba).
In parallel to her academic career, she led innovation projects for multinationals during 15 years, 10 of which for Unilever, based in South America, London and Milan. In 2003 she set up Garimpo de Soluções, where she does consultancies and gives conferences operating at the crossroads of economics, culture, cities and the future of work, having worked in 201 cities, 31 countries and for the United Nations.
Author of spearheading books in the region, such as Marketing Cultural e Financiamento da Cultura (Sponsorhip and Funding of Culture, 2002), Economia da Cultura e Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Economics of Culture and Sustainable Development – the first work in the field in Brazil and awarded with Jabuti, the most important book prize in the country, in 2007) and Cidades Criativas (Creative Cities, where she analyses changes, trends and cities, based on innovation, connection and culture – short-listed for another Jabuti Award in 2013). She also organised and co/edited books with global reach, for free download, e.g. Creative Economy as a Development Strategy (2008), first book in the world with this approach and Creative City – Perspectives (2009), with 16 authors from 13 countries. She co/designed and implemented projects aiming to foster active citizenship and urban innovation, such as Criaticidades, Sampa CriAtiva and OpenCity Lab and joined or coordinated strategic creative economy plans and projects for different governments, such as São Paulo State and the Federal District of Brazil.
She is the curator of international seminars and capacity-building projects, as ExpoGestão (the most relevant and lasting business congress in Southern Brazil) and a board member of a series of startups and initiatives, like Recicleiros, LocalChef and Virada Sustentável. She won Claudia Award in 2013 (the biggest women’s award in Latin America), in the Business category and was appointed by El País leading Spanish-speaking newspaper one of the eight Brazilian personalities who impress the world.
Associate Director and senior consultant at Garimpo de Soluções. General Director of collective intelligence and urban innovation projects, such as Sampa Criativa platform (commissioned by the Federation of Commerce to the State of São Paulo, in 2013-2014). Alejandro co-directed the capacity-building roadshows on creative economy and cities and ran the mapping of creative singularities based on a taylor-made methodology, in 15 cities of Ceará and Minas Gerais states (commissioned by Sebrae CE and MG, in 2015). He worked as Executive Director of OpenCity Lab, an open innovation platform devoted to startups bearing urban impact (in partnership with Repense agency, in 2016/17). In 2017/18 he was Coordinator of Research, Benchmark and Content of the project Território Criativo DF, focusing on 14 cities in the Federal District of Brazil.
Alejandro is Co-curator of the Brazilian phase of Creative Business Cup and co-designed the Farol Santander’s Arena of Creative Economy, where he co-directs the projects “My future is now” and “Startup dialogues”. Speaker in countries as varied as Mexico, Portugal, United States and Bolivia and in various Brazilian states, he is a professor at the Course of Creative Economy and Cities, by Universidade Candido Mendes (Rio de Janeiro) and of the Continuing Education Programme on Creative Economy and Cities, by Fundação Getulio Vargas (São Paulo).
Before settling down in Brazil, in 2013, Alejandro was a Technical Advisor at Córdoba Culture Agency and for the Cultural Information System of Argentina. He also ran consultancies of cross-sector programmes and was Executive Producer of the Gran Ballet Argentino, for festivals and international tours.
