Lugares que se (trans)formam : o território-rizoma e os modos de subjetivação na Favela Santa Lúcia

Abstract

Places are driven by senses of housing. That is why we defend, in this research, that it is these senses that transform space into places, endowed with significance, affections and symbologies. We seek to understand the meanings of housing that permeate the experience of living in the Santa Lúcia favela. Also, we are interested in arguing how these senses dialogue or were changed by the implementation of Vila Viva – a structural intervention by the Belo Horizonte City Hall. The research problem is permeated by the modes of subjectification that encompass the experience of living. In this sense, structural intervention projects appear as a crossing, indicating that they are implemented, in most cases, with minimal community participation. As a result, different ways of thinking about space (that are so unique and important for everyday life) tend to be disregarded. We start from the idea that there is a relationship between the production of space and subjective productions; and also that space is a decisive factor for different instances of life, since it is through it that human existence is made possible. We consider space beyond its physical structure, taking it as a place of encounters and affections – where people produce different actions and reinvent themselves daily. Since we argue that favela is a space-movement, we could not choose sedentary methodologies. In this sense, we build “dialogical walks” because we understand that walking, our most everyday gesture, becomes an important tool in space studies. From a social cartography through the perspective of schizoanalysis, we seek to untangle lines that tell stories, affections, encounters, resistance from our hizometerritory, understanding that the lived city does not fit within the limits of the planned city. It is necessary to go further and that is how the perspective of our study is sustained.