As cidades ocultas dentro de si: ecos do Vale do Reginaldo, Maceió, Alagoas

Abstract

Maceió has it´s soil excaveted by tributaries of countless lagoons and rivers, wich causes the formation of grotas, valleys that go deep into the plateau of the city and, sometimes, are urban aproprieated by the population in the form of favelas. In this context, the dissertation investigates the communities located in the Vale do Reginaldo and their ways of life suffocated in many forms by the city, using the sensory-experimental method as a possibility to deslocate the most usual tools in the endeavor to highlight other mecanisms and research goals. Approaching the Vale, it is observed conformations that disturb it's territories, enabling borders to become thresholds, passages and detours, resulting in understandings of the material and temporial dimensions that overflows on the urbna fabric of the city. In this process, it was possible to perceive the sonority of that space not only as a sensorial channel, but also as a form to materially build the places and as a possibility to develop strategies of contact and survival. When trying to reach the body of the Grota, in and out of it's demarcations, it is visualized the strong tangecy between body and territory and it's concluded that turning the attention to the intruments used in the survival of those considered marginals, indicates a possible path of reflexion to deconstruct the way wich the urban dimension is usually noticed and studied, especially in the Academy, softening the borders that supports their suffocation, and fortifying the idea of the contribuition of an urban, wich in essence is malleable, undisciplined, potent and moving.