Centro da cidade de Fortaleza, lugar das transformações: o idoso e os afetos implicados

Abstract

The present research has as objective to analyze the reciprocal relations between person-environment specifically, involving the question of the urban intervention and the affectivity of aged. For in such a way, the inquiry in the center of the urban city of Fortaleza as surrounding of study and the aged ones that they live in this space and aged that frequents it. The center of Fortaleza passes by processes of interventions and still requalification Projects is affected by. These proposals of urban interventions downtown also become in function of the necessity of solutions for the concrete situation of structural decay of the old building that had been part of the history and the origin of Fortaleza. To investigate the aged ones in this environment becomes important, seen to be alive witnesses of the cultural, historical passage of the Center. Its lives and experiences are basic excessively to know them the bows description-cultural of this environment. Moreover, the gift becomes them witnesses of occured changes in entorno, what it allows them to be sources of knowledge of the modifications carried through in the ambient and urban patrimony. The reference to the affection in the present study that the same ones propitiate the implication of the citizens with something and have character in its behaviors, in accordance with the thought of Heller (1979), SAWAIA (1991), BOMFIM (2003). Of this form, the general objective of this research is to know the affection of aged (that they live and aged that they frequent) the center of the city of Fortaleza. As objective specific one searchs to identify the affective images elaborated by these aged ones, having as reference the center. Another specific objective is to relate the feelings of the aged ones with the urban transformations for which passes and passed the center of the city. As results, the aged ones investigated had elaborated five affective images downtown. The images of Destruction, Relevancy (to the past), Unreliability, Agradabilidade and Contrastes. We perceive that many of the aged ones investigated the Center that they today see from its identifications with what they had lived deeply in this place in its previous experiences. We associate the destruction images and of unreliability to the references to the place of the past when they came followed for feelings as sadness, malaise, disillusionment and unreliability. These same references, when associates the feelings more potencializadores as joy, peace, love, homesickness, satisfaction, had been tied with the image relevancy to a place of the past. We can say, finally, that the passage of the transformations for which passed and still passes the central area of the city, placed us ahead of feelings that communicated a center that was, a center that are being and a center that goes to be. The affective images of aged the many times had portraied however the continuity however the rupture between a gift and a past and to future.