Fissurada: cartografia de tensões através de imagens do bairro de Bebedouro em Maceió/AL

Abstract

Besides being configured as an opening that manifests itself in certain surfaces, as a mechanism to relieve the tensions of its components, the term fissure also brings semantic openings that allow us other understandings. These overflow the explicit literal meaning. With this, we look at the Bebedouro neighborhood in Maceió/AL, considering this possibility as a way to tense its historical and socio-environmental dimensions currently in evidence. The neighborhood integrates the area affected by the process of subsidence caused by rock salt mining, by Braskem, since the 1970s. This process, which used to happen more silently, began to be evidenced in 2018, due to the occurrence of an earthquake in part of the region. Bebedouro is one of the affected neighborhoods with a long urban memory, being one of the first neighborhoods of the city, with significant connection to the expansion of the city, besides containing centennial architectural and landscape landmarks - officially recognized as cultural heritage. As the title points out, cartography is adopted as a methodological position, throughout the work, which moves and engages the researcher architect to the experience of entering dynamics as they occur, in this case from the production or access to images, with attention to the unexpected of the intense urban transformations that compose the ambiences/ atmospheres - in general a set, which presupposes the coexistence and dynamics of relations in and with the environment associated with the accumulation of time - in the neighborhood. Thus, the general objective is to map semantic multiplicities of the fissure in relation to the consequences of mining in the neighborhood. To achieve this goal, this work was structured from the study of imagetic records from different times and sources, and that unfolded in three main clippings: imagetic records of the neighborhood of the nineteenth and twentieth century (postcards and photographs) of Maceió; records of field experience; and records posted on the social network instagram between 2019 and the beginning of 2022. Understanding that cartography does not intend to annul the association with other methodological conducts, it was used in this work: document review and analysis; empirical observation; combinations of content analysis with urban analysis and cartographies of the processes experienced. As a moment to bring discussions about the interweaving of contents understood from the studied clippings, the last part of this work entitled "A cartography of the fissure" was produced. Thinking about the Bebedouro neighborhood, it was interpreted, from the look over several images with different sources and temporalities, other possible semantic unfoldings of the fissure. The fissure brings effects on surfaces. Not only on the house, the street, the square, the neighborhood, but also on the city, the memory, the people and their relationships experienced in and with the environment.