Lieux traumatiques : les récits urbains dans la [re]-construction collective de la signification des lieux

Lieux traumatiques : les récits urbains dans la [re]-construction collective de la signification des lieux

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

urban memories

traumatic places

urban narratives

Rio de Janeiro

The ongoing research on Urban Memories developed at LASC/UFRJ (Laboratory on Architecture, Subjectivity and Cultural Studies) focuses on the processes of urban transformation and its vicissitudes: the dynamics of changes in built environment intersected by a process of continuous [re]construction.With the aid of an object study what we call "traumatic places", this survey covers the construction of collective meanings of places. Through the collection of chronicles, it seeks to understand the ways of giving meaning and value to this physical world that is unwrapped in the fabric of everyday urban life.This article presents a case study in Brazil which indicates that: [1] urban atmospheres have the force of collective memory since they are able to spread the movement of the significance of urban life, [2] certain places have a higher "power memory" due to its "traumatic experience" which have the ability to motivate a "work symbolization", [3] the metaphors employed in urban narratives suggest the complex working of a "functional" memory, composed at the same time by memories and forgetfulness. Besides the discussion of the results, this paper is also concerned to demonstrate the methodological approach used in the case study as well as the concepts that support the research that underlies this work. In conclusion, this article suggests that memory is a key element in the symbolic construction of urban atmospheres. Finally, by focusing on the joint construction of narratives, the research on urban memories contributes to the understanding of the cultural atmosphere while a continued building and living, making use of human understanding rather in its materiality but also in its temporality.

Duarte, Cristiane Rose

Uglione, Paula

Vilaça, Lis

Ambiances in action. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances / Ambiances en acte(s). Actes du 2nd Congrès International sur les Ambiances

Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012

2012

FRE

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00745863

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/74/58/63/PDF/ambiances2012_duarte_uglione_vilaca.pdf

Montreal

Canada