Graphic intervention in public space: expanding the theoretical and methodological repertoire

• Grant number: 13/16991-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: November 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Urban Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Andréa Cláudia Miguel Marques Barbosa
• Grantee: Rafael Acacio de Freitas
• Supervisor: Ricardo Marnoto de Oliveira Campos
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 12/19802-7 - Graphic interventions in urban public space: an ethnographic approach of São Paulo City, BP.MS

Abstract

The proposed project seeks to deeps the reflections on the use of the image in anthropological research, expand and consolidate the methodological and theoretical tools for the study of the intersection of visual and urban themes, in particular the use of photography as a medium and also as a subject for an anthropological approach to urban public space and graphic interventions such as graffiti. As a complementary effort to master research in progress, which sought to investigate the graphic interventions in the constitution and organization of urban public space with the empirical referent marked by two regions or areas of the city of São Paulo, the research internship in Lisbon CEMRI - Center for the Study of Migration and Intercultural Relations, will serve to refine the methodological apparatus. Participation in similar research initiatives that address the use and urban images, seeking references little used in Brazil, as well as theoretical solutions to the problem of anthropological constitution of urban public. The opportunity to analyse the same problems from other empirical reference, put the hypothesis of analytical reconfiguration of urban public space from its perception and practice from graphic interventions in new test, renewing the look on the problem of São Paulo City and maturing analyses and interpretations for completion of the survey. (AU)