Laboratório de artes popular - arquitetura como dispositivo cultural e social

Abstract

Cities are complex structures, populated by a multiplicity of people, with an infinite variability of histories, cultures, languages, customs, forming a tangle of questions and also problems. The public space, as a fundamental part of this complex structure, comes as an articulating element of diversity, promoting encounters and different experiences. The cultural public spaces feed these experiences, promoting a resignification trought the promotion of artistic manifestations, celebrations, parties and thus promoting the exercise of citizenship. Yet what kind of public spaces are we building? How are cultural facilities configured as elements of urbanity? Does the location in the urban territory of these cultural spaces allow democratic access to all? How is the distribution of cultural spaces in the city of Uberlândia? The present work seeks to feed these and other discussions about public cultural spaces, trying to understand what public space is for the contemporary city, and how cultural spaces modify the intrinsic dynamics of urban territory. From these readings, and from a study on cultural facilities in the city of Uberlândia, it was possible to propose a laboratory of popular arts for the city in the Planalto neighborhood.