Abstract
A research on the relationships between body and landscape in public parks of Sao Paulo —an extended analysis of the media approach to these green areas— leads us to consider somatic learning (i.e. how the body learns and acts) as a way to create meaning and experience in big cities. Taking this learning into account seems to be of fundamental importance in recent years: a city that restricts the possibilities of face to face encounters and the learning possibilities in the interaction between bodies and between bodies and landscapes is a city whose destiny is the hardening and failure as a place of well-being. When the ways of living in the city are revealed in everyday activities developed in open green areas and said ways of living are partly linked to the role played by the media, the role of public spaces as city-living laboratories is revealed, and the means and strategies for the management and possible confrontation of the public space crisis in the city are identified. It is in the public and open areas that the chances of creating a more inclusive city are found, where horizontality, collective socializing and respect for diversity can (perhaps) overcome the rigid structures of vertical and exclusive development.
Highlights
A research on the relationships between body and landscape in public parks of São Paulo —an extended analysis of the media approach to these green areas— leads us to consider somatic learning as a way to create meaning and experience in big cities. Taking this learning into account seems to be of fundamental importance in recent years: a city that restricts the possibilities of face to face encounters and the learning possibilities in the interaction between bodies and between bodies and landscapes is a city whose destiny is the hardening and failure as a place of well-being
When the ways of living in the city are revealed in everyday activities developed in open green areas and said ways of living are partly linked to the role played by the media, the role of public spaces as city-living laboratories is revealed, and the means and strategies for the management and possible confrontation of the public space crisis in the city are identified
Entretanto, a diversidade de pessoas e contextos que a grande cidade apresenta também pode revelar oportunidades de encontros e inovações capazes de superar essas dificuldades
Summary
Una investigación de las relaciones entre el cuerpo y el paisaje en los parques públicos de São Paulo, expansión de un análisis de enfoque mediático sobre esas áreas verdes, nos lleva a emprender para un aprendizaje somático (aprendizaje del cuerpo) como estrategia de generación de significado y vivencia en la metrópoli. Cuando se desvela cómo los parques en São Paulo configuran modos de ser característicos de la ciudad y se revela que esos modos de estar se encuentran en parte ligados al papel desempeñado por los medios, se revela el papel de los espacios públicos como laboratorios de ser y estar, identificándose subsidios para la gestión y un posible enfrentamiento de la crisis del espacio público en la ciudad.
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