Sao Paulo a City of Water

São Paulo, a city of water, 2023

This book deals with the relationship between São Paulo and its water resources from the birth of the city to the present day. It discusses the consequences of technological choices and applications on the urban environment and its landscape, in the processes of reconfiguration and artificialization of natural water courses to expand the offer of urban lands.

Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences, 2019

The reflection and projects exposed here can be seen as a catalyst, restricted to our perceptions and traits in order to better understand the city. These are projects for São Paulo’s urban waters that should be developed with an interdisciplinary approach. And assume for Architecture, the understanding of its time and nature that vary so much.

This article consists of a study on the tensions and consonances between the emerging tissues of peripheral urban areas and portions of the relief considered environmentally fragile, especially the amphitheaters of springs. This is the case of the Parque Novo Santo Amaro V housing complex, completed in 2012 by the Vigliecca and Associados office, located in the Jardim Ângela district, in the South Zone of the Municipality of São Paulo. In this architecture of the favela, the State has carried out a intervention of requalification of the so-called informal city, as so the possibilities of relation between water and city. Although the current situation, in a few years of occupation, is the opposite of this, as much for the privatization of the common collective areas as for the total mischaracterization of the water course that permeates the place. This article is developed in three parts, which are not segmented, but rather overlapping layers. The first part will briefly present the problematic between the right to housing and the need of recovering strategic areas to protect the environment as an ecological resource. The second part consists of a contextualization of the work based on the precepts of project design developed by Team-X, starting in 1954, in order to demonstrate common characteristics and similarities. The third part discusses the character of the intervention performed in relation to the surrounding urban fabric, as well as its peculiarities and dichotomies as an idiorrhythmical conglomerate. Key Words: São Paulo, Jardim Ângela, Favela, Urban Project, Hector Vigliecca

São Paulo: escrita-imagem em atravessamento estético-político, 2018

Este ebook é resultado de pesquisa financiada pela PUC-SP, desenvolvida pelo Centro de Pesquisa Sociossemiótica – CPS e pelo Grupo de Estudos da Poética: Interconexões diacrônico-sincrônicas na poesia brasileira e portuguesa, respectivamente dos Programas de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica e Literatura e Crítica Literária da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. O ebook busca apreender a inscrição da “cidade periférica” – Grajaú – na cidade de São Paulo, em particular nas suas territorialidades centrais, assim como nas extensas vias de transporte que cruzam essa megalópole. A partir de manifestações estéticas parietais (pixo, pichação, mural, grafite, palavra-imagem, entre muitas mais), artistas intervencionistas urbanos ressignificam centro e periferia, marcando posição e assinatura de territorialidades excluídas, e a construção de uma voz sócio-político-artístico-cultural que quer ser ouvida no seu mostrar a diversidade da sociedade brasileira. Os estudos desses atravessamentos urbanos enredam análises e reflexões sobre as transformações que a cidade incorpora polifonicamente, assim como a ampla documentação fotográfica que, saltando das páginas, evidencia um universo de sentidos que não pode mais ser calado ou inviabilizado. É essa problemática complexa que este volume entrega aos leitores.

Droste Effect Magazine, 2017

This Bulletin #11 - São Paulo, Out Of Reach/São Paulo, Fora De Alcance has been released by Droste Effect Magazine and is the outcome of two months research in the city of São Paulo. This is the last chapter of a project that goes under the name of Practices as an Intersection in a Fragile Environment, an independent research investigating the relationship between Art and the Public Sphere in a state of cultural nomadism. The title São Paulo Out Of Reach originates from a 2012 exhibition by Brazilian artist Mauro Restiffe at Instituto Moureira Salles in Rio de Janeiro; a statement that points out very clearly the impossibility of reaching, defining and understanding the city in just one gaze. This chapter is dedicated to the city of São Paulo and mainly focuses on its Architecture and Urbanism through a multidisciplinary extension that involves visual artists, curators, researchers, architects, urban planners, anthropologists, and journalists. Each contribution stands by itself, but at the same time, it’s part of an extensive and complex narrative that tries to process the city in its different scales. This text, in a spontaneous and chaotic movement, follows the order in which the contributions have been sent over. This is therefore just a proposal: one of the possible readings. Thank you Droste Effect Pivô Bjcem - Association Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranéeand Ramdom for supporting

The riverside communities of the municipalities of Sobradinho, Casa Nova, Pilão Arcado, Remanso and Sento-Sé in the State of Bahia have suffered socio-environmental and cultural impacts because of construction of hydroelectric dams on the São Francisco River, causing psychosocial damage to people, in addition to some environmental degradation. The main goal of this paper is to describe from memory the process of relocation of the residents of the old Sento-Sé village to the new city after the construction of the Sobradinho dam (1973). This way, it is intended to recount a historical reminiscence, recalling a socio-environmental and cultural context of the time of the flooding of this city that no longer exists tangibly. In the preparation of this article, semi-structured interviews have been conducted, based on reconstructed memories and reminiscences of the residents of that city, periodicals, documents from institutional sources and photographic images of the flood period. This research also produced a memorial record, a video-documentary called “Ecologia e Memória de Sento-Sé”, recorded in 2019 and available on YouTube, referring to a period in the history of the São Francisco Valley.

2012

The aim of this article is to discuss the establishment of the urban space of São Paulo at the beginning of XX century that restores the opening of a great field of studies for the understanding of discourse practices that were established about the city at the same moment that it was built. With the physical expansion of the city, it was possible to create new institutions, which had promoted the scientific ideas practices on hygienic ideals of the time, as well as, had stimulated the quarrels on the Brazilian and establish nationalistic ideas through intense propaganda. They had allowed a field of performance for the elite educated in the city, closing, in certain way, the circuit farmers/education/urban activities. The scientific ideas and the formal education had got to be part of the class marks distinction of the elite, which, at least for part of it, found in the urban institutions a performance field in its activities beyond the politics. São Paulo becomes the privileged field for the application of discourse practices that aim at the control and the conformation of the individuals. These practices consist of enunciated that have origin in several places that are correlated (biology, education, nationalism, etc.).

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2023

This article seeks to expose the entanglement in the mode of inhabitation of the ribeirinhos from the Upper São Francisco Valley, also known as barranqueiros, with the waters and other-than-human beings that comprise the co-built landscape on the riverbanks. The starting point for critically describing this more-than-human sociality on the banks of the São Francisco River are the entendências [lit. understandings] of the inhabitants of the Ribanceira Community, in the municipality of São Romão, in Minas Gerais, concerning the pluvial and river flows of the waters. Immersed in the cyclical alternation between the time of the waters and the time of the drought, which guide their fishing and farming activities, the barranqueiros of Ribanceira have experienced increasingly less frequent and less intense pluvial flows, while also coexisting with a river that is worryingly not flowing that colours their narratives in disheartening tones regarding the proximity of the epoch or end of times.

The researches show that São Paulo grew up in rapidly and wide way, due to phenomenal interlink with industrialization and urbanization, a big flux of people to the city, coming from others states of the country. The countryside was no longer rural, and was aggregated to the city and was named periphery. The problem of receiving the population in righteous housing is an old issue, but it increased furthermore, after the promulgation of the Sitting Tenant´s Law in 1942. São Paulo faced the first slums, the housing production system changed from rental to private property. In other words, from finished houses to a system that the workers bought their land in the city´s suburb, and built themselves the house step by step on the weekend. The active participation of the private initiative in the formation of the suburb lots and the formation of bus companies were observed, at the same time, connivance and omission by public power to solve problems were seen. Some sambistas, who were born or have immigrated to São Paulo, lived many of these transformations, making made them the raw material to many of songs. These songs have not only the city as scenery, but many times, they are the reason for the songs. Thus, new places are mentioned, forms of living (and occasional tensions and conflicts) are described, transformations and urban problems are sung. In some cases, the composers did not hide their positions, even criticizing these processes. On the other hand, one can´t let alone the limits of these city´s representations, considering the perspective that was adopted by these sambistas as São Paulo´s reality eyewitnesses.

Revista de Direito da Cidade

This article has as its first objective to discuss the reality of the inhabitants of a traditional riverside community, inserted for at least two decades, involuntarily, within the urban mash of the Urbanova neighborhood, west of the city of São José dos Campos, SP These riverine community is formed by a traditional fishing community and live in an irregular settlement located in a risky and permanent protection area. The fact that they are not the landowners together with the omission of public power generate feelings of exclusion and socio-spatial segregation in addition to social and environmental problems. Secondly, it was studied the survival strategies adopted by the residents of this community. Finally, their perspectives of insertion in urban life will be investigated through the research conducted with these residents, and the documentary and bibliographic research. Facing so many uncertainties, it is estimated that the population is at a crossroad, which is seen as a dilemma or the impossibility of decision-making, except those ones involving the strategies of their survival and maintenance in the area.