Platform evolution
Continuous technical evolution and relaunch of Gnomon with a public web platform integrated with the app, multimedia collection and community curation open to institutions and residents.
The project that came to rekindle Gnomon
The Gnomon app has existed since 2019, conceived through academic research at the Center of Informatics at UFPE under the supervision of Professor Dr. Alex Sandro Gomes. In 2026, Recife em Trama, a project approved in the SIC 2024 call by the City of Recife, introduces a new dimension of Gnomon to the public, with new curation, an expanded collection of heritage sites, and an explicit social purpose: Gnomon Cultural.
In this version, the app is also designed as a training tool for teachers and professionals in Cultural Heritage, Museology, History, and related fields.
Rua do Bom Jesus · Recife Antigo01Background
An app with years of history, starting a new chapter.
Gnomon was born from research in educational computing: a geolocation app to bring heritage and education closer together. It worked, had methodology, but remained without a team, without curated content, and without reach. It stayed that way for years.
Recife em Trama arrived with the missing question: how to expand this mapping to also include the memories the official city has not yet recorded? From there came the resources from the 2024 call of Recife's Cultural Incentive System (SIC 2024), the curation of invisibilized heritage, and the training of educators.
02Specific goals
Agreed goals. Each becomes a public good by the project's end.
Curation of 300 sites and 30 thematic routes
Documentary research and community listening, prioritising places of Black, Indigenous and working-class memory with no official signage.
24-hour training course
Distance learning with certification in Heritage Education, ERER and use of the app in field activities with students.
Three in-person workshops in downtown Recife
Guided tours in which participants register sites in the app with mediation, a Libras interpreter and audio description.
Two openly licensed e-books
A methodological workbook for teachers and a publication with the curation results, distributed at no cost.
03Team
Three fronts that answer together for delivery
Weldjane Mary
Proponent · cultural producerResponsible for conception and executive production, bridging the project, cultural institutions and downtown Recife community leaders.
Alex Sandro Gomes
General coordinatorCoordinates the link between research and delivery, responsible for the methodological design of the training and evaluation of results.
Lucas Andrade Avelar de Freitas
Cultural designerStructures the 24h course and teaching materials, ensuring every piece of content arrives ready for classroom use.
Course sessions opening soon
24 hours of training, free, with certificate.
04Incentive
Project supported by the Sistema de Incentivo à Cultura do Recife / SIC 2024, managed by the Fundação de Cultura Cidade do Recife. Public funding is what makes all products free and openly licensed.
