Intervir na Casa do Cantador, em Ceilândia: enfrentando conflitos, evitando privilégios, apresentando possibilidades

Abstract

Cei + lândia: the name originates from the derivation of the abbreviation CEI - Invasion Eradication Campaign, constituting a prefix to which is added the suffix land. Located 26 km from the Pilot Plan, it is now the IX Administrative Region of Brasília, the most populous of the thirty-one existing. In a city where the criticism of the social segregation of the Pilot Plan is strong, Ceilândia has been repositioning itself, finding some centrality, within the scope of public policies of preservationist character. Territory of strong cultural expressions, Ceilândia has roots, mainly, in the Brazilian Northeast, where comes its strength of the singing, the tradition of the suddenly and the cordel or, more recently, hip-hop. It is in this scenario that the Casa do Cantador, exemplary of modern architecture, is one of the few works of Oscar Niemeyer outside the Plano Piloto. Object of intervention of the discipline Urban Conservation Design, the Casa do Cantador was the basis to discuss the right to the modern city and the patrimony, considering their challenges and potentialities. It is about this discussion that this article deals, bringing to the fore, in its first part, the theoretical debate about the right to the city in a modern city, Ceilândia. The building is the object of the following part and, in a third moment, the intervention solutions developed facing conflicts, avoiding privileges and indicating possibilities of a democratic doing and living of the patrimony and of the city are presented.