Caring for creative possibility: locality as heritage

This paper addresses the problem of how to articulate the notions of heritage and locality, while looking at accessible public space as the ground for the awareness of its possibilities. Acknowledging the importance of scattered creative and co-creative experiments - spatial and political practices which are seen as proposals with great cultural value -what is proposed is a challenge: to look at neighborhoods as players in a more densely connected urban narrative. The way heritage is reinterpreted appears then as a citizenly contribution for a more diverse urban sensescape, where values such as vicinity or provocation can become operative. A major conclusion is that an ethics of the curatorial - as implied in the concept by Irit Rogoff - is the basis for a pragmatics of the urban realm where heritage can have a futurant sense.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Art as a way of communicating and raising awarness about mental health — based ona case study project: MADNICITY

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Experiencing european streets : tactics for a translocal narrative

The thesis engages in the debate on the experience of a specific kind of streets as part of the cultural life of cities. The density and richness of de Michel Certeau’s pages on spatial practice and his ideas on the relation of walking with an appropriation of everyday tactics are an essential foundational perspective for this study. Unlike what is accepted in traditional history, de Certeau posits tactics not as subordinate to strategy but as opposed to it. Just like strategy presumes control, tactics appears as the purview of the non-powerful, and informality of experience as well. In an era in which accelerated processes of consumption and gentrification require creation and cultural work to be responsible, there is an urgent need to combat processes that obscure the wealth and potential of the various layers that make up the urban environment and locality. The research undertaken in this thesis thus aims to understand the potential relevance of a new cultural concept - that of creative street - which is based on values and experiences to be shared among a community of partners, stakeholders and the public(s). Making explicit the conceptual narrative mechanisms of an inspiring, inclusive and participatory approach of the street, the work delivers a specific and innovative framework. The research addresses topics such as place, street, walking, experience and narrative; operative notions such as creativity, learning, connectivity, locality, mobility, interface, experience; and eventually on the practice of walking in traditions such as the flânerie, strollology, the Situationist dérive, errance, and contemporary artistic experimentation. All these frames the proposal of a European 'cultural' street circuit or network as the stage for connected locality. The outcome is a translocal tactic connecting a nomad community, through an open cultural concept to be shared across diverse urban contexts, nevertheless facing the same globalization issues and a cultural horizon anticipated by both contemporary thought and artistic and literary wanderings. The case studies discussed in this thesis are streets in Portugal, Estonia, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.A tese envolve-se no debate sobre a experiência de um tipo específico de ruas como parte da vida cultural das cidades. A densidade e riqueza das páginas de Michel de Certeau sobre a prática espacial e as suas ideias sobre a relação do caminhar com tácticas de apropriação do quotidiano são uma perspectiva fundacional deste estudo. Ao contrário do que é comumente aceite, de Certeau coloca as tácticas não como subordinadas à estratégia, mas como opostas àquela. Tal como a estratégia pressupõe o controlo, a táctica aparece como o domínio dos não-poderosos, bem como da informalidade e da experiência. Numa época em que processos acelerados de consumo e gentrificação requerem criação e trabalho cultural para serem responsáveis, há uma necessidade urgente de combater processos que obscurecem a riqueza e o potencial das várias camadas que compõem o ambiente urbano e a localidade. A investigação levada a cabo nesta tese visa assim compreender a potencial relevância de um novo conceito cultural - o de rua criativa - que se baseia em valores e experiências a partilhar entre uma comunidade de parceiros, partes interessadas e o(s) público(s). Tornando explícitos os mecanismos narrativos conceptuais de uma abordagem inspiradora, inclusiva e participativa da rua, o trabalho fornece um quadro específico e inovador. A investigação aborda temas como lugar, rua, passeio, experiência e narrativa; noções operativas como criatividade, aprendizagem, conectividade, localidade, mobilidade, interface, experiência; e a prática do passeio em tradições várias – flânerie, strollology, a deriva Situacionista, errance, a experimentação artística contemporânea. Tudo isto enquadra a proposta de um circuito ou rede de ruas 'culturais' europeias como o palco para a localidade conectada. O resultado é uma táctica translocal que liga uma comunidade nómada, através de um conceito cultural aberto a ser partilhado em contextos urbanos diversos, enfrentando, no entanto, as mesmas questões de globalização e um horizonte cultural antecipado tanto pelo pensamento contemporâneo como pelas deambulações artísticas e literárias. Os casos de estudo discutidos nesta tese são ruas em Portugal, Estónia, Itália, Espanha e Países Baixos

Intangible heritage

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