A cidade em foco: olhares a partir do bairro Chico Mendes

Abstract

Abstract : This research had as a goal to investigate the relation between the residents of a neighborhood in the periphery of Florianópolis with the city itself. This study uses the intervention research perspective within the framework of sociohistorical psychology. The city is understood as a place of contradiction in which the variety of cultural and material goods produced by humankind move but at the same time the urbe is also where the social inequalities are evidenced. For the information production process, weekly meetings ? also called esthetic workshops - were organized in a NGO located in the neighborhood in which the research took place. Analysis happened through the selection of excerpts from both what was produced in the workshops (audio transcriptions and photos taken by the participants) and the reports in the field journal. Works by Vygotski and the Bakhtin Circle are the theoretical foundation to this research and it is understood that images are also a kind of speech in which the tension between different social voices are found. The analysis categories created were: ?Olhares para o bairro? (Views of the neighborhood) in which the residents' views of their own neighborhood was the focus of the analysis as well as the relation between the neighborhood Chico Mendes and the city of Florianópolis; and ?Olhares para a pesquisa? (Views of the research) that is concerned in examining aspects of the production process. The analyzed material highlights the relations between the subjects and the neighborhood, as well as the one between the neighborhood and the city. Thus, the images indicate aspects of the neighborhood memory, bringing fragments of community struggles, features of the urbanizaiton process and also elements of the sociospatial inequalities.