Cidade Cega: uma encenação pelo direito a uma Cidade Sensível

Abstract

The present discussion proposes to reflect the importance of the right to a Sensitive City, through the somatic-performative urban event Cidade Cega, whose actors/performers are visually impaired people. The text aims to address, from the staging, issues that permeate the daily life of the city, by a sensitive bias. Thus, the Blind Wanderers or Flaneurs function becomes a performative element, responsible for accessing the layers of the city, by suppressing the vision and potentiating the other senses. Therefore, the text emphasizes from a practical experience the contexts of a city not accessible for people who have a disabled body. Hence, the need to think about the right to the city for any citizen who occupies it.