Experiência e memória: práticas cotidianas criativas na regional de Venda Nova em Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The concern that gives rise to this work starts with recognizing the existence of an enormous distance between contemporary urban plannings proposals for public spaces and the daily appropriation of these ones. It is thought that practices in public spaces are possibilities of resistance, and that they promote a rich experience and constitutes memory. For revealing these practices, it is chosen as the object of study the Regional Venda Nova, located at the city of Belo Horizonte because of its characteristic periphery formation process and the public spaces reformulation that happened over time by urban revitalizations projects and by the urban program recently adopted called OUC ACLO. Such interventions are propitious for the valorisation of land and ensure the profitability and liquidity of capital, promoting spatial segregation and gentrification. Focusing on experience and memory, the proposal is to reveal the citys ordinary practices appropriations, as another way of occupying space from as resistance tactics. For this purpose, some considerations about the urban spaces production became necessary: (1) the socioeconomic scenario, the cities world market and the contemporary urban planning; (2) the experience impoverishment and the pacified spacess conformation; (3) the experience and memory and (4) the spaces of difference conformation, interaction and social practice. Recognizing the relevance of the daily appropriations that happen in Venda Nova allowed the apprehension of another city, the real city, practiced and full of experience.