Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura: representação, governamentalidade e contestação

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the construction of the Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura at Iracema Beach, using the discourses, representations, devices and contestations surrounding the project. The goal is to understand how discursive mechanisms altered the space in both material and symbolic ways. The analyses are based on studies about what it’s called the triad of urban politics: politics as representation, politics as government, and politics as statement. It used a qualitative methodology, in a descriptive and bibliographic character. The results revealed the influence of governmentality processes, in which we observe the discourses and mechanisms used to determine how certain spaces are experienced and perceived, deemed lifeless, unsafe and unattractive so that they can be "revitalized" and reconstructed.