Instances and scenes of cultural agitation

174 URBAN GALLERY I GALERIA URBANA

Map locating all the activities proposed during the Baixo Centro festival, on Minhocão and its surrounding public spaces

‘to collaborate with São Paulo, you just need to go to the street and use the city in a more responsible way, treat better your neighbour, understand that the city is what it is because we live in a certain way. Change your relationship with the city and the city will change to you’ Rafael Bresciani, activist of Baixo Centro. Interview to the web portal Criacidades, 2013

Instances and scenes of cultural agitation

Published on Oct 19, 2016

Valentine Van den Eynde

About

This 5 months masterthesis was made by Raissa Monteiro and Valentine Van den Eynde as part of the trilogy 'Occupying Central São Paulo' in collaboration with Kathleen De Beukelaer and Claire Bosmans. The historical centre of São Paulo is the site and subject of a plethora of social and cultural practices that agitate the urban scene by occupying and re-appropriating diverse urban spaces. This thesis aims to probe how such cultural and artistic occupations take part in the redevelopment of the city’s central area, by performing particular instances and scenes of insurgent urbanism. Three distinctive ‘occupied’ urban spaces, involving particular constellations of actors, are explored by means of peculiar metaphorical lenses. As instances of a vast landscape of cultural occupations, the case studies will allow to shed light on the agency of cultural agitations transforming the urban scenery into a laboratory for unsolicited but remarkable experiments towards other ways of city making.

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