“Hacemos barrio, hacemos ciudad”: engajamento comunitário, arte urbana e turismo no Barrio del Oeste, Salamanca (Espanha)
“Hacemos barrio, hacemos ciudad”: engajamento comunitário, arte urbana e turismo no Barrio del Oeste, Salamanca (Espanha)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.2662408024
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Palavras-chave: bairro; engajamento comunitário, arte urbana, turismo.
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Keywords: neighborhood; community engagement, urban art, tourism.
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Abstract: This text seeks to reflect on the role of community engagement in the cultural and tourist reconfiguration of Barrio del Oeste, an irreverent and avant-garde area in the city of Salamanca/Spain. This space stands out for its collective initiatives to experience this territory, as well as for transforming the neighborhood into an open-air art gallery. It is a creative and colorful piece of the local urban context, which also constitutes a tourist attraction distinct from the conventional routes existing in the city. The study was carried out following the theoretical and methodological premises of Urban Anthropology, being based on the thoughts of Michel De Certeau (2007) on the arts of everyday life. To understand these dynamics, the investigation was carried out through an exploratory study, with field research, based on non-participant observation and photographic records. In view of the study, it was observed that community protagonism makes all the difference in local management, as well as in the economic, social and artistic-cultural practices developed. Such actions occur through the ZOES Neighbors Association (West Zone), which since 1970 has changed the landscape, dynamics and way of living of this territory, transforming it into a public space for political practices, resistance and cultural production. The aforementioned neighborhood represents a community initiative, which sought to bring art closer to the daily life of the place, constituting itself as a relational, educational and citizen participation space. What turns it into an area with its own personality based on social inclusion and quality of life for its residents.
- Rosana Eduardo da Silva Leal