CURRENCY BUILDER

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The Americas · Rural and urban Brazil · G079

Mutirão Build

Neighbours harvest, clear land or build homes together.

Front of Mutirão Build: 10 Tiles, inspired by Mutirão (collective work), with actual Noun #2
Front · 150 × 75 mm
Back of Mutirão Build: the Mutirão (collective work) tradition, how a note would work, and the traits of Noun #2
Back · the tradition

Security Edition v2

The same note set like a banknote: full engraved portrait of Noun #2, guilloche, watermark, thread, foil stripe and microtext, all printed art. What's on it

Security Edition front of Mutirão Build: a line-engraved portrait of the full actual Noun #2 in a guilloche oval beside a watermark window, thread and holographic-look stripe
Security Edition · front
Security Edition back of Mutirão Build: a color medallion of Noun #2 in a guilloche rosette, with the note's story
Security Edition · back
v2 front SVG ↓ v2 back SVG ↓

The tradition · Tupi roots; ongoing

Mutirão (collective work)

Mutirão, from a Tupi word for collective work, is a Brazilian tradition of unpaid group efforts to harvest, clear land or build houses; it also underpins self-help housing mutirões in cities.

Source: Mutirão (Wikipedia, português) ↗

How a note would work

Tiles are earned by joining a neighbour's harvest or a group home build and spent when your household needs a crew; the host offers food. They are never bought or cashed out.

Design concept inspired by this tradition, not issued by or for the people who keep it. Not legal tender, not for sale, no cash value, no redemption and no investment rights.

Front SVG ↓ Back SVG ↓ Machine edition
  • PlaceRural and urban Brazil
  • EraTupi roots; ongoing
  • RegionThe Americas
  • UnitTile · Tiles
  • Face value10 Tiles
  • SerialGB-G079-N0002
  • NounActual Noun #2 ↗
  • Why this NounThe pineapple is native to South America, and 'ananás' comes from Tupi, like mutirão itself.
  • Headpineapple
  • Glassessquare yellow saturated
  • Bodybluegrey
  • Accessorybelly chameleon
  • Seedbg 1 · body 3 · acc 3 · head 157 · glasses 20