Afua is a municipality located in Marajó of Forestry, State of Pará, where the main roads of the city are wooden bridges built over the river, which invades in times of marajoara wintering. This natural phenomenon, still causing flooding of the territory, its manifestation is celebrated as a feast among residents, referring to a way of life capable of interconnecting culture and nature. Given these characteristics, Afuá needed to recreate their primary means of urban transport, hence emerged the bicitaxi. Built from the need of residents permitted to use motorized vehicles given the structure of the city, in an area where bicycles prevail. The bicitaxi born from the union of two bicycles, fused by a metal frame. In this scenario, in this dissertation I present cartographies of experience of creating and experienced use with bicitaxi giving existence to other aesthetic and visual schemes. In her contribution, walked towards understanding how the bicitaxi is inserted in the daily Afuá and understand their dialogues with lifestyles built there; analyze new sensibilities and visualities regimes that constitute the exercise of creating and using bicitaxi, imbricated in aesthetic ecosystems; argue that this aesthetic is and how it articulates the cultural and symbolic dimensions of life in Afuá; and also to understand how these designers understand their creative processes and negotiate with local and global codes in order to make the bicitaxi. For that, I outlined a theoretical-methodological design which articulated the perspectives of Oral History, guiding the conduct of interviews with the afuaenses about their memories of the processes of creation and use of the vehicle, and Cartography, acting orientation-center study to moving map scenarios in which culture is built. Also dialogued with scholars of Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Thought and contemporary authors of Art and Design. In dialogue with them, developing the results of this research, which showed aesthetic ecosystems and livelihoods paths in the city, through which the bicitaxi is established and acquires its own meaning, being crossed by emotions, memories and power struggles; besides demonstrating that his way emerge knowledge, coined by trial and updated with every new vehicle produced; and point processes of creation in the city while exercises instigate experimentation, and self-recognition of its peculiarities, characterizing them as continuous and fragmented, collaborative, informal and supported by knowledge minted in everyday processes. Furthermore, recognize the aesthetic experience developed in the city as of resistance, subverting conventional aesthetic standards; composite, because they are the result of cultural encounters and disputes; and also the fragment, since they are the result of creative processes in constant motion.
|
