Multipositionality and Articulation of Differences

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MULTIPOSITIONALITYAND ARTICULATION OF DIFFERENCES>> initating conversations in micro-urban-territories through artistic interventions.

Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon and Berlin.

Daniela Brasil

Proposal to an interdisciplinary practice-based PhD

Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Max Welch Guerra

Professur Raumplanung und Raumforschung

Fakultt Architektur - Bauhaus-Universitt Weimar

Co-supervisor: Profa. Dra. Margareth Campos da Silva Pereira

Professor of Urban culture, history of art, history and theory of urbanism

PROURB FAU Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro


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INTRODUCTION

This project wants to create conversations between cities and their

inhabitants through the intertwined field of politics, art and urbanism. Can

change and exchange in the urban structures be fostered by artistic

interventions?

Interdisciplinarity for the past two decades has become the most effective

tool of dealing with the public realm. To understand and work with urban

space and its political transformations is necessary to deal with difference

and with the multipositionality of the actors of society. Therefore this study

aims to bring traditional fields of urbanism (city planning, urban design and

spatial researches) together with humanities and contemporary art.

Focusing on processes that are produced by the interaction of cultures and

collective experiences - or that exists within the conflict of the different

discourses - "between spaces" will be traced as a potential terrritory of

action. The spaces to be observed are not limited to the conventional

understanding of public space, i.e. the outdoor squares and streets, the

spaces left in-between buildings without private owners, or the urban

theories that developed concepts that identify only the corporeal and legal

dimensions of space.

Mapping micro-urban-territories within metropolitan areas will be an

exercise of observing the phenomena of dematerialization of space fostered

by its cyber and mediatic dimensions, in junction with the approach that any

public space does not exist a priori, since it is necessarily socially, culturally,

economically and politically constructed.


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BACKGROUND

To situate this proposal within the development of my previous work I would

like to underline some of the conducting guidelines that perpasses the main

projects I have idealized and/or organized in the past ten years. The body of

my work may divert in its form, but the intention remains as an attempt of

touching the realm of society. Through the attentive perception of

landscapes, the excercise of questioning political power and cultural

practices; promoting encounters and exchanges; my projects are interested

in investigating and generating shifts on behaviours.

The wish of raising debate - through provocating established structures - has

always been present. The act of questioning is used to dislocate meaning,

hence to foment change. These provocations emerge from trained

observation, chance and poetical readings of the cities, drifting through

latent possibilities that tend to be hidden from the distracted eye. Expanding

the gaze, perception becomes intention and a mode of action.

Creating interstices to operate, these projects initiated contact and dialogues

with a series of actors of society, i.e. citizens, political and administrative

powers, universities, cultural and artistic institutions, private investors and

public funds. Inquiring the varied contituents of society is understood as an

effective way of potentializing different perspectives and therefore new

attitudes towards the public sphere.

Accordingly an advantage of my contradictory and momentaneous position

of distance and proximity towards the three chosen cities will be taken. The

intensive academic, professional and sentimental experience I have with

these environments gives me the required support to start this research from

an pre-acquired level of understanding of these particular urban cultures

and their inherent conflicts.


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INTENTIONS

In times where multiplicity is in the order of the day, the issues of where we

are positioned and to whom we are talking to are extremely important. How

to facilitate talks, how to create cooperative network systems where all the

components have space for reflection and intervention? How to articulate

between spaces - finding existing gaps and connections or creating new ones

- where dialogues among different languages can take place?

Considering modes of perception and forms of expression as the actual basis

for conviviality within the public realm, the themes of language and identity

will be a central point of the research.

By tracing out three categhories of interventional spaces, i.e. Cognitivespaces (when people acknowledge their environment - through thought,experience and/or the senses); Textual spaces (where discourse and itsinterpretations are created); and Political spaces (where decisions takeplace through dialogues); a mapping of the territory will lead to the

verification if it is possible to qualify public spaces through acknowledging

difference.

Facilitating dialogues and mediating connections within the three cities and

its inhabitants through interferences generated by artistic objects and

actions, this investigation wants to verify how can short-term interventions

generate long-term reactions.

As a result, a sentimental andscientifical cartography of the studied places is

to be expected.


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METHODOLOGY

The research will shift from theory to practice and vice-versa, as in a chemestry laboratory of experiments.The theoretical substance will betransformed into an urban interference; and the result of the action will be

analised becoming theoretical content. It is a practice-based investigation.

These practical exercises will be used as "case studies" created by and to the

studies, so that the idea of "case study" will not be as normally a pre-existing

one.

The process consists of mapping the territories and inserting artistic objects

and actions within chosen spaces. The criteria to choose the micro-urban-

territories of intervention will be developed during the preparatory phase.

The proposed research method of understanding the public space is based

on the superposition of bibliographic and cartographic studies, attendance to

seminars, in locoexperiences and the elaboration of artistic devices.

To allow a basis of comparison, the same objects and the same actions will be

used for the three cities. The patterns of language and technics of

documentation will also be the same. In this sense, the artistic object and its

representation will be repeated, what will change is the scenario and its

inherent political, economical, cultural and social conditions.

The objects to be produced shall all fit in one suitcase. They have to be easily

transportable in order to allow their installation in any spot of the three

cities chosen for intervention.


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WORK SCHEDULE

1. Preparations >> Oct06 Feb071.1. Selecting the specific bibliography and cartography for each city

1.2. Creating the methodology to approach the space and the people

1.3. Idealizing and constructing the objects and the actions

2. Urban actions >> Mar07 - Nov07Each city will be studied for a period of 3 months, one month for each of the

following steps:

2. 1. Tracing conflict, identifing and classifing potential areas of intervention

2.2. Chosing, analising and mapping the micro-territories

2.3. Intervening, following up and registering reactions

Mar Mai >> 1st.city Rio de Janeiro

Jun Ago >> 2ndcity Berlin

Sep Nov >> 3rdcity Lisbon

3. Reflections >> Dec07 Jun083.1. Analising and comparing the results

3.2. Generating a cartography of difference

4. Conclusion >> Jul08 Sep08 4.1. Writing the final thesis

ATTENDENCE TO SEMINARS

AND INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION

. Europische Urbanistik - Promotionsprogramm der Fakultt Architektur an

der Bauhaus-Universitt Weimar

. Programa de ps-graduao em Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Rio

de Janeiro (PROURB FAU UFRJ)

. Centro de Estudos Geogrficos - Faculdade de Letras - Universidade de

Lisboa (CEG FLUL)

In particular the activities within the context of the Universitary cooperation

programme: CAPES - DAAD - 2005/2006 - Politik des ffentlichen Raumes

im Wandel: Rio de Janeiro und Berlin. Ein binationales Forschungsvorhaben.


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