Participação e observação no Plano Diretor da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This work is a consequence of the author`s professional experience as a member of the technical staff of the Integrated Development Plan of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region, an experience that made possible her participation in various workshops and seminars of the Plan. In several of these events, which included the participative process in the Plan, the author has made reports of groupsdiscussionroups in which there were representatives of government and civil society. It was thus possible to observe ways in which participative process occurs, giving emphasis to: 1) those demands and expectations of actors that concerns to the Plan, 2) the construction of concepts such as citizenship, identity and development. Believing that the experience in the workshops may be classified as participant observation, we reflect on the issues mentioned above.