In the Counterculture of the Florianopolis Historic Center Revitalization

Abstract

As a new approach to the urban renewal recent practices, this article outlines some of the revitalization processes that have been applied in the historic center of Florianópolis, from a critical point of view. This study fits in a counter-hegemonic bias of the current narrative about the “urban place”. Our aim here is to point out possibilities for a sensitive reading and interpretation of the eastern portion of the old historic center, which can open the way to inclusive projects with different uses and users. The methodology goes through the research modality of walking as an aesthetic practice, by the accurate perception and by the cartography method, in order to experience the urban spaces and refute a hegemonic gaze and interventions on the heritage, architecture and the city. As a result, we collected tactile images, metaphorically worked as the cards of a playing card box. Thus, we compose, in several modes photographic perspectives of a living place, which open way to imagination, for the creation of another sense of urban project as a form of resistance against the simple sanitization processes that are in play and still dominate the current discourses and strategies.