Create or join a community.
Explore the cultural map of your city
Discover the vibrant communities near you. Open the map to navigate your region and connect with the communities around you.
Contribute to an open research project
Orbis grew out of research funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil, into how cultural communities form and connect. The platform is open source — study how it works, contribute, or create your own Orbis and take part.
Pin the places that matter to your community and mark them with your community's symbol.
See how different communities' cultural presence overlaps across the places you share — side by side, on one map.
The more places a community maps, the more visible its cultural presence becomes across the region. So invite others to add the places that matter to them.
Pin where your community gathers and make its presence part of the shared cultural map of your region.
Build a members' space for your community — host cultural events, share benefits, and sustain your activity over time.