Sou Bairrista: criação de vídeo-narrativas sobre e com as pessoas habitantes do Bairro Herculano

Abstract

This article is based on an anthropological research, which mobilized participatory audiovisual method-ologies, including photo elicitation and participa-tory video, as strategies for the production of vid-eo-narratives, research and analysis of the social and housing context of the community of Bairro Hercu-lano, located in Porto. The participant group for this research included twenty residents, aged between 25 and 81 years old, living in the neighbourhood for over fifty years. The design of audiovisual narratives was an opportunity for the community of this neigh-bourhood to produce self-representations, and to generate space and meaning for the voices and experiences of its inhabitants, bringing their stories to other public dimensions (Hancox, 2017). The act of narrating “is also to discourse about meanings, to analyse situations. Conversely, to discourse on meanings and analyse is also a form of narrating” (Barros, 2012, p. 8). Participatory audiovisual meth-odologies enable the study and understanding of diverse places and social realities (Vailati & Godio, 2016). Therefore, the participation of the residents of Bairro Herculano, in the various stages of devel-opment of these methodologies, allowed the for-mation and aggregation of individual and collective perspectives for the construction of video narra-tives about their place and community.