Roundtable 1: Art, City and Decoloniality
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PROGRAM
OPENING / APERTURA
Profa. Mônica Bahia Schlle | PGPP-FAU/UFRJ
Prof. Rubens de Andrade |EBA-PROARQ-FAU/UFRJ
Profa. Michelle Sales| EBA-UFRJ
MODERADORES / MODERATORES
Shahid Vawda and Paula Camargo
SPEAKERS / PALESTRANTES / PONENTES
Monica Lacarrieu | ARGENTINA
New decentralizations and crossroads in relation to art and heritage in contemporary peripheral cities: coloniality and/or decoloniality?
Novos descentramentos e encruzilhadas em relação à arte e ao patrimônio nas cidades periféricas contemporâneas: colonialidade e/ou decolonialidade?
Nuevos descentramientos y encrucijadas en relación al arte y el patrimonio en las ciudades periféricas contemporáneas: ¿colonialidad y/o decolonialidad?
Raphael Abdulmajid Ighombo | KENYA
Practicing decoloniality in Museums
Praticando a decolonialidade em museus
Practicando la decolonialidad en los museos
Marco Polo Juárez Cruz | MÉXICO
A new look at the past: the Harlem Hospital Mural Project (1935-2012)
Um novo olhar para o passado: o projeto Mural do Hospital Harlem
Una Nueva Mirada al Pasado: El Proyecto Mural del Hospital de Harlem (1935-2012)
Mariana Vieira de Brito | BRAZIL
Graffiti: stain or insurgent manifestation in the landscape?
Graffiti: mancha ou manifestação insurgente na paisagem?
Graffiti: ¿mancha o manifestación insurgente en el paisaje?
Rui Leão | MACAU
Decolonizing knowledge: challenges to the colonial project
Descolonizar o conhecimento: contestações ao projecto colonial
Descolonizar el saber: desafíos al proyecto colonial
This first roundtable aims to reflect on the place of heritage in contemporaneity and, from this foundation, to problematize the possible alignments between art and city, considering, for that, the crossings that are revealed in the life of communities with their different social strata. Therefore, it is important to decode the symbols of the local culture, highlight the signs and meanings of the traditions of the ancestral peoples, without forgetting the ethnic aspects and the issues related to racialities and their repercussions in urban aesthetics. This agenda reopens the 2022 Transnational Dialogues with the following question:
What is the dimension of urban art and what are the fields of action of cultural manifestations in the conservation of heritage and urban landscape and how both move in an interdependent way when producing representations that contribute to expanding the multiplicity of perspectives and values to be bequeathed to future generations, considering factors related to ancestry, interculturality and intersectoriality?
In contemporary times, urban art, in its multiple manifestations, reaffirms itself as a powerful vehicle for the production and reverberation of narratives in the heritage sphere, which, in turn, evokes in the urban landscape the legacies of the local context and revives the spirit of place. These points are universal aspects to be respected in World Heritage sites. Similarly, conservation becomes synonymous with decolonization, insofar as it promotes equity and justice through coexistence and dialogue between the various social segments without disregarding the diversity of ethnicities and racialities that form the socio-cultural and socio-spatial fabric. Recognition of the city’s art, culture and history, therefore, becomes key for communities to value local heritage and identity.
Based on the national and international dialogues that took place in the forums of the Our World Heritage Initiative, held in 2021, alternative forms of interpretation, application and updating of concepts and paradigms adopted in heritage conservation will be discussed, in particular, those aimed at the integration of art and cultural manifestations in the urban space. In this sense, it is important to note that The production of urban art in peripheral countries still shows reflections of westernized views, based on experiences rooted in the culture of the northern hemisphere, resulting, to a large extent, from the unfolding of geopolitical and colonialist processes that were established and practiced in Southern hemisphere countries for centuries.
Faced with the initial question, the purpose of this debate is to reflect on the movements and displacements produced by concepts related to representations, visualities and cultural manifestations linked to artistic production, to the urban landscape and to theories focused on decolonial studies, such as expression and recognition of the social, cultural and territorial rights of marginalized social strata, traditional societies and indigenous peoples. The debate is part of and will open the I International Seminar EBA URBE: Fall from the sky – refuges, habitable futures and reinvention of cities organized by MIdiaLab-EBA and by the Hybrid Landscapes Research Group of the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – EBA/UFRJ, by the Professional Masters in Design and Heritage, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, by the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Institute of Architects of Brazil, and by the International Council of Portuguese-Speaking Architects, with support of the Group of Studies and Research in Politics and Territory – GEOPPOL/IGEO/UFRJ, Centro de Patrimonio Cultural de la Universidad Católica de Chile and the Foro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Ambientales.