Organizações culturais e (re)configuração do espaço: o caso do Istituto Europeo di Design, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Cristiane Simões Netto
• Orientador(a): Peci, Alketa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Organizações culturais; Espaço; Poder
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Cultural organizations; Spatial changes; Power games
• Link de acesso: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/10148

The present study aims to investigate how the possibility of installation of the Istituto Europeo di Design in Urca, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, interferes with the (re) configuration of space. In order to study this process, we have adopted the concept of space as defined by Milton Santos, who characterizes it as an inseparable system of objects and actions, being necessary to analyze it in a historical perspective. In order to better understand issues related to power, identify and characterize social actors and the relations established between them, we have adopted Carlos Matus concepts which were developed for the analysis of social reality. We have chosen the qualitative method, from which the secondary data were collected from news about the process of revitalization of the old Cassino da Urca and the installation of the Istituto Europeo di Design published in local newspapers and magazines, online newspapers and blogs and primary data were collected from unstructured observations of facilities around the building of the old Cassino da Urca, participation in neighborhood association meetings and semi-structured interviews with representatives of organizations involved in the process. Argumentative and interpretative analysis based on the theory and concepts mentioned above were adopted in order to analyze data. Based on the reports and documents relating to the installation process of IED in Urca, we have defined the period of analysis, which begins in August 2006 with the demise of the old Cassino da Urca building to IED, until the announcement of the partnership with another organization, in May 2012. The study identified that the installation of IED in Urca interfered in the configuration of space, especially with regard to the formation and performance of the association of neighborhood residents, the installation of new businesses in the vicinity of the building now restored, and consequently in the landscape of the neighborhood. We also focus on changes that extrapolate the boundaries of the neighborhood. Based on the data analyzed, it is emphasized that the cooperative relationship between the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro and IED was established around the appreciation by the Mayor of the technical capabilities of IED, the activities perfumed by IED like teaching, research and consulting in areas like architecture, design, fashion and communication, which reinforces the argument of the current valuation of cultural organizations in the process of (re) configuration of urban space, which are related to economic, social and symbolic aspects.