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Launching / Exhibition Late December 06, the Project of New ESDI (College of Design of Rio de Janeiro State University - UERJ) was launched in Lapa, a Rio de Janeiro downtown quarter. ESDI, the first Design School created in Latin America, was inaugurated in 1963 by Governor Carlos Lacerda. The Project of New ESDI foresees its expansion including modern buildings, which outrageousness and beauty oppose to the original architecture of the small borough where the School is settled in adapted buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Project plan to integrate these modern facilities in the rich vegetation that has always surrounded the School. The new buildings will offer an ample program schedule in a five hundred seats auditorium, two exhibition rooms, a university bookstore, a cultural café, as well as classrooms for long-term and short-term graduate courses, researchers rooms, laboratories and new modern facilities for the library - the best Brazilian library dedicated to Design. The School intends to set up a "Design Company Incubator", the first one of its kind. The project by the Architect Professor José Luiz Mendes Ripper takes into consideration the need for conservation and enlargement of the vast green area that surrounds and covers ESDI, integrating the School to one of the largest downtown green parks called "Passeio Público". People will have access to the new buildings by "Rua do Passeio" sidewalk, retaking the address where the School exhibition pavilion was historically settled. This pavilion was built in the early 60's and housed important Design exhibitions during the 60's and the 70's. With this project, Rio de Janeiro State University intends to amplify its participation in the city, settling a modern teaching and research center working on the three areas defined as the University essential purpose: undergraduate courses, graduate courses and short-term graduate courses. The project also prepares ESDI to go on innovating in the future, in the place it was founded and where it constructed its participation in the development of the city and country. The launching happening assembled the University former students community, designers and several ESDI friends for a cocktail party and a show of the "chorinho" (a kind of Brazilian popular music) group named "Elixir do Pajé" [Shaman's Elixir], to celebrate the inauguration of an exhibition presenting the project and its mock-up. The launching exhibition of the Project of New ESDI was open to visitors until December the 22nd, 2000, from Monday to Friday, from 8:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
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