Arte Viva Alagoas : anteprojeto de um Centro Cultural na UFAL - Campus A. C. Simões, Maceió – AL

Abstract

The Cultural Center at the heart of its meaning is directly linked to popular action and social participation, so its location must be easily accessible to all social groups and classes. The city of Maceió, the capital of Alagoas, lacks Cultural Centers that promote the appreciation of culture and the creation of local artistic practices, especially in the most populous and peripheral neighborhoods. The Cidade Universitária neighborhood, the third most populous in the city, has a large university population due to the presence of the A.C. Simões Campus of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), which would benefit from the existence of a public and accessible Cultural Center for the reflection and creation of Alagoan popular culture, creating a social connection with art and strengthening cultural identity. This monograph presents the context of Alagoas' cultural formation and its popular arts that have persisted to the present day, the conceptualization and contextualization of Cultural Centers in Brazil. The product of the Final Graduation Project is the development of an architectural preliminary project for a Cultural Center located on the A.C. Simões Campus of UFAL, in order to meet the demand for more cultural incentive spaces in the northern region of the city of Maceió.