Urban Scratches: Everyday Architectures and Gestures in Disputes in the City

Abstract

The present work is characterized as a visual essay that articulates photographs, text and collages, from a critical, aesthetical, political and collective perspective. Seeking to express the complex ways of thinking and narrating the city and the Urbanism, “Urban Scratches” focuses on the city in dispute, pervaded by insurgencies, creative tactics and resistance. Also focuses on gestures of subjects and collectivities that (re)create structures, suggesting other possible spatialities in everyday life.

From the gesture of wandering around the city, cell phone photographs were taken, creating a collection of “urban scratches” that makes visible subversive ways of space appropriation. Using this image collection, collages were mobilized as a creative resource, but above all, as a tool capable of provoking reflections on the counter-hegemonic ways of city production. “Urban scratches” align with the idea of science production in everyday life, with a methodological opening for creative elaborations that instigate us to (re)imagine cities.