Memória, espaço e afeto: outras cartografias possíveis de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This study tries to understand how the memory (individual and collective) and the social dynamics of occupation of urban space, throughout the history of Belo Horizonte, contribute to the conformation of other possible cartographies, in which the affective paths of its inhabitants can make Visible identities hitherto submerged and thus reveal new senses of the city. Research has as a challenge to articulate several areas of knowledge, as well as architecture and urbanism, such as history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, geography and psychology around its central themes. This conceptual dialogue is essential for the realization of such a project, which will allow exploring new theoretical and methodological frontiers in the study of the urban way of life, given the complexity of the life that inhabits cities in the contemporary world. It is therefore necessary to understand different ways of occupying and appropriating space and to draw up a cartography of the subjective bases that give meaning to life in the city and that will penetrate the intimate relationship that its inhabitants build daily with space. This research proposes a kind of "dissection of the inhabited urban space", in the sense of capturing its various layers, going from the most intimate / invisible to the most superficial / visible, and exposes the tenuous texture of the individual's relation to space and how Is formed in terms of individual and collective perception and experience.