Situação de arte: um método interpretativista de apreensão da cidade (excludente)

Abstract

Through the study of different methods that seek to build unconventional knowledge of apprehending cities, this thesis proposes an interpretivist method for understanding urban territories that are perceived as opaque, socially abandoned, and marginalized by the State. This method, called Situation of Art, uses art to construct micropolitical and plural contexts of interpretation, with a focus on how practitioners of these territories interpret the city under conditions of high social vulnerability. Assuming the partiality of the knowledge it seeks to produce, which is seen as arguments that present themselves or launch themselves into specific territorial discursive conformations, the method is developed in five moments of investigation: urban catabolism, interpretive activation, recognition dispute, own art action, collective art action, and reflexive interpretation. The thesis is structured into five chapters. In the first chapter, the introduction, I sought to present the contours and nature of the research problem and the thesis objectives. Continuing, I presented the analytical mapping of a set that I considered expressive of interpretivist methods of apprehending the city, organizing them among those more centered in the field of art, in the field of urbanism and planning, and in the field of sociology and anthropology (Chapter 2); to then present the method itself (Chapter 3), in which I also sought to explain its main anchorages and its construction dynamics; and to detail its use in a recent experience in Rome, called "Human, Inhuman, Rome Capital - Situation of Art" (Chapter 4). I concluded with the conclusions (Chapter 5), in which I presented some final reflections, including the limits of this work, as well as a new research agenda.