Rastros e cantos: registros de dinâmicas cotidianas no espaço público de Santana do Ipanema – AL

Abstract

This work is based on the assumption that perceiving the urban environment starts from the deceleration of walking. Thus, it is the act of pausing, remaining, permeating the city as an aspect of the architect's and urban planner's craft. The landscape covered to construct this question and move forward in it was that of Santana do Ipanema, located in the interior of Alagoas. As part of this process, the areas intended for collective use were observed, taking into account their participation in the day-to-day dynamics, as well as in the calendar of festivities. In order to understand this dynamic of appropriation, we decided to photograph the places we visited and build graphic panels based on images captured by Google Earth. The analysis and systematization of this material made it possible to identify physical spatial characteristics and appropriations in favour of collective social practices. In the empirical analyses, I realized how much the surroundings significantly interfere with the degree to which people stay in collective public spaces. This led me to understand that walking through the city in the face of changes in the current configuration of locomotion and, consequently, the uses of collective and public urban space, is an act of protest, especially against the speed of the social exchanges developed, which as a result of these changes (use of the immediate surroundings, pedestrian flow at different times, infrastructure and furnishings that favor permanence), transform such places, which were once spaces for pausing for exchanges, into areas of rapid passage. In this sense, as part of the urban fabric, I realized that Santana's squares are part of the overall construction of a locality. Their uses, when replicated in a punctual way in relation to the street furniture provided, do not in themselves generate the appropriation that is intended for the built environment, but the mixture of these functionalities are responsible for the dynamics developed and which maintain the constant transformation of the built public space.