Recolhendo resíduos: a caixa de trapos como procedimento de leitura da cidade

Abstract

This article intends to launch an academic and pedagogical invitation to investigate contemporary urban spaces in another way. A more bodily form, more partial, more open to the dissensions of everyday life. With this invitation presents a procedure, a path, a way, a method. To look at the city, to face the other, to assume the urban otherness. A method supported by the words of Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Nicolas Bourriaud. From the allegory of the Rag-picker, borrowed from Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, the proposal, with an ethnographic bias, invites the rescue, collection and cataloging of the urban remains (spatial, symbolic, material, etc.) discarded by the vertiginous rationalized modern technocratic modernization, converting them, resignifying them through the Box of Rags. A collection of waste, debris, traces of something that was once, but that still may be. Collect traces of the other, transform them into other meanings to then understand and propose another space. Possibility of an urban alterity.