The urban daily life and the participatory landscape design: participatory project on the revival of landscapes of public open spaces in the periphery of São Paulo. Case study on Jardim Celeste neighborhood

• Grant number: 11/05155-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: January 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Landscaping
• Principal Investigator: Eugenio Fernandes Queiroga
• Grantee: Guilherme Galuppo Borba
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims at articulating both theory and practice in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies of the graduate program in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in the University of São Paulo. As per the main goals, there is an urge of comprehending the possibilities of implementing an experimental landscape architecture action in the Jardim Celeste neighborhood, in Butantã zone, São Paulo, applying the participatory design with the local community and governmental institutions. Therefore, this is an action-research, where the planned interventions characterized by socio-environmental and educational grounds enable both researchers and participatory groups to build the means to make them apt to respond and act to the problems related to the place they live, pursuing truly life-changing actions. The researcher will reflect upon the process (action), contextualize and compare it with other similar processes, bearing in mind the constraints of traditional governmental institutions. To sum up, this research will look at the process of urbanization of Brazilian metropolitan areas and its devastation of public open spaces, study the problematic issues revolving around the environment and landscape of São Paulo, establishing partnerships between formal and informal institutions and, finally, devise methods for the analysis of the named case study area. Thus, it is believed that taking those measurements will enable this project to succeed along its way. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BORBA, Guilherme Galuppo. The landscape of places. Theory and practice in the periphery of the metropolis: case study on Jardim Celeste, São Paulo. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) São Paulo.