devir-erê: entre espirais de design e memória na Quinta da Boa Vista

Abstract

This research undertakes a methodological journey through the Quinta da Boa Vista Park, in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, viewing it as a living subject-territory, traversed by stories, disputes, and affects. The study is situated within the vibrant tension between enchantment, manifested in the suburban populations’ affectionate appropriation of this "collective backyard” and the colonial wounds, institutional disputes, and violences that mark the lived experiences and the landscape. The starting point is the body traversed by the territory, exposing the displacement of the researcher who, upon entering the contact zone, transitions from the position of an observing researcher to that of a sharer. It investigates here how leisure asserts itself as a category inseparable from the right to the city, and how the territory of Quinta acts as a trigger for what I conceptualize as devir-erê. The work is structured on the understanding that the field of design operates as an agent of articulation and the construction of experiences. Thus, Quinta emerges as a place of encounters and disputes where the city retells itself through the cracks: a place where being, staying, and imagining become, in themselves, forms of belonging.