Through the research investigation in this component, HERITAGE created a model that enables the Kuikuro to be agents in a process of exchange rather than being positioned as passive consumers of external influences or victims of cultural invasions. Kuikuro rituals, songs, dances, stories, visual and decorative arts have formed the basis of a pilot artistic residency for non-indigenous artists in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse. This has led to indigenous artists and artisans developing autonomous practices in contemporary exchange, while recognising the legitimacy of historic cultural forms, maintaining and developing cultural production that prioritises the preservation of the human and natural environment, which maintains the lives of individuals and the welfare of the community. The residency model has demonstrated how indigenous arts practices can become part of the broader creative and cultural industries sector in Brazil and beyond, while resisting and rethinking issues of contamination, which could potentially destroy their own historic artistic languages and practices. It has also begun a process which proposes cross-cultural exchange as a means of socially purposeful development. Through developing exchanges with favela-based artists, HERITAGE has demonstrated how Brazilian indigenous communities can inform, engage with and learn from Brazilian urban peripheral cultural practices.