A organização popular do espaço público: uma análise a partir da experiência do Comitê da Praça das Arvores no complexo Cohab Cohatrac em São Luís do Maranhão

Abstract

The use of public space involves a complexity of perceptions that go beyond the urban dimension and permeate the construction of social and political relationships. From this perspective, a study was developed on the popular organization of public space: an analysis based on the experience of the tree square committee in the Cohab- Cohatrac complex in São Luís do Maranhão, with the aim of analyzing the dynamics of action constituted in the free public space organized based on the experience of the Praça das Árvores Committee in the COHAB-COHATRAC Complex, such as the collective uses and appropriations on the floor of the square, conceived as a place of multiple meanings that redesign this urban space, since the square is a place of contradictions and antagonisms. For this, the bibliographical research methodology was used, combined with field research through participant observation, photographic records, documentary analysis and testimonials from its “users”. The aforementioned study approached the theme based on the experience of the construction process of the Praça das Árvores Committee after the urban planning qualification, which raised questions about the implications of the institutionalization process of the aforementioned committee on political and community autonomy, pointed out in the dynamics of usufruct in the everyday life in this urban socio-community scenario. This study took historical and dialectical materialism from a Marxist perspective as its theoretical-methodological contribution. As a result of the research, it was found that institutional interventions are impacted by community action in urban production, or even how these actions impact the autonomy of the popular committee