scholarly journals “These murals give life”: revalorization of public space, history and identity in mural art, Martín Fierro Festival, San Martín, Argentina.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (29) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Silvia Hirsch ◽  
Ana Bonelli ◽  
Florencia Valese
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Positive Identification ◽  
Mural Art ◽  
American Artists ◽  
San Martín ◽  
Space History

The purpose of this article is to analyze a muralism festival organized by the municipality of San Martin, based on the theme of Martin Fierro and the notion of “Encounters at the border”. This study is based on qualitative research carried out between 2017 and 2020. We seek to understand the ways in which the themes of the Muralism festival are interpreted and resignified by Latin American artists. We also examine how these artistic practices transform a deteriorated public space, and how the Muralism festival, which is part of the Program San Martin Pinta Bien, constitutes a vehicle to de-stigmatize the neighborhoods, and generate a positive identification with the history and memories of the space.

MURAL, KEKUATAN MODAL, DAN MASYARAKAT

DeKaVe ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Annasher
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mural Art ◽  
The City ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Special Region

Broadly speaking, this paper discusses the phenomenon of murals that are now spread in Yogyakarta Special Region, especially the city of Yogyakarta. Mural painting is an art with a media wall that has the elements of communication, so the mural is also referred to as the art of visual communication. Media is a media wall closest to the community, because the distance between the media with the audience is not limited by anything, direct and open, so the mural is often used as media to convey ideas, the idea of ??community, also called the media the voice of the people. Location of mural art in situations of public spatial proved inviting the owners of capital to use such means, in this case is the mural. Manufacturers of various products began racing the race to put on this wall media, as time goes by without realizing the essence of the actual mural art was forced to turn to the commercial essence, the only benefit some parties only, the power of public spaces gradually occupied by the owners of capital, they hopes that the community can view the contents of messages and can obtain information for the products offered. it brings motivation and cognitive and affective simultaneously in the community.Keywords: Mural, Public Space, and Society.

scholarly journals Development of a Measure of Permeability between Private and Public Space

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Alonso de Andrade ◽  
Meta Berghauser Pont ◽  
Luiz Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Forthcoming Paper ◽  
Network Centrality ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Plot Size ◽  
American Cities

This article focuses on the development of a measure for frontage permeability, which we argue is needed to complement existing metrics used to describe urban environments and assess, amongst others, social performativity. Built density and street network centrality are two characteristics often discussed in relation to urban vitality. However, high densities and high centrality do not always result in higher urban vitality, which can be partially explained by a typical densification model often used in Brazil and in some other Latin-American cities with high-rise residential buildings. To understand the relation between urban form and social performativity, the metrics for density and network centrality are thus not sufficient and we propose to add two other urban form properties: frontage permeability and plot size. The hypothesis is that the mentioned densification model combines higher density with larger plots and lower permeability. Many scholars have shown that higher density is often associated with increased urban vitality, but larger plots are said to have the opposite effect and in Latin American cities, it is observed that lower vitality is found where buildings have less permeable frontages. This research aims at studying the combined effect of density, permeability, and plot size on urban vitality or, more generally, social performativity. However, there is no well-developed method to measure frontage permeability. Therefore, this article first presents a method to measure frontage permeability, both in qualitative and quantitative terms. This measure is then combined with existing measures of density and plot size to analyse how these three urban form metrics relate to each other. In a forthcoming paper, pedestrian observation data will be added to the analysis, to be able to give more insight in the relation between the three urban form metrics and urban vitality using pedestrian counts as proxy. We will show that the developed measure seems to be coherent and effective in describing permeability. Further, the preliminary results confirm the hypothesis that the Brazilian densification model with high-rise residential buildings generates a decrease in frontage permeability, although it does not appear to significantly change plot sizes.

scholarly journals EQUADOR E BOLÍVIA: MODELOS PARA CONSTRUIR O ESTADO DE DIREITO ECOLÓGICO DO BRASIL?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (37) ◽  
pp. 277-304
Author(s):  
Laura Fernanda Melo Nascimento ◽  
Vivianne Garrett Lidorio ◽  
Raimundo Pereira Pontes Filho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Ecological Models ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Ecological State ◽  
System A ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
Political Realities

Em um contexto de agravamento dos desafios ecológicos, o artigo busca investigar a contribuição de modelos ecológicos adotados por países andinos, mais especificamente do Equador e da Bolívia – “Bem viver” ou “Viver bem” – considerando que vêm sendo apresentados como proposta à construção adaptada de um modelo de Estado Ecológico de Direito no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro.  Realizou-se revisão bibliográfica, com pesquisa qualitativa de abordagem puramente teórica e propósito exploratório, a fim de demonstrar a base essencialmente cultural dos modelos que estruturam o giro biocêntrico no novo constitucionalismo latino-americano. Demonstra-se necessidade de cautela na importação de tais modelos, uma vez que possuem bases estruturais e realidades culturais, sociais e políticas distintas das verificadas no Brasil. Finaliza-se com ênfase ao diálogo intercultural na superação de desafios e refundação da realidade ambiental no país, avançando em direção à concepção de um Estado Ecológico de Direito brasileiro. In a context of aggravating ecological challenges, the article seeks to investigate the contribution of ecological models adopted by Andean countries, more specifically from Ecuador and Bolivia - “Well live” or “Live well” - considering that they have been presented as a proposal to the adapted construction of an ecological law model in the Brazilian legal system. A bibliographic review was carried out, with qualitative research, a purely theoretical approach and exploratory purpose in order to demonstrate the cultural basis that structure the biocentric perspective in the new Latin American constitucionalism. It demonstrates the need for caution in the importation of such models, since they have structural bases and cultural, social and political realities different from those verified in Brazil. It finalizes with an emphasis on intercultural dialogue in overcoming challenges and rebuilding the environmental reality in the country, moving towards the concept of an Ecological State of Brazilian Law.

scholarly journals PRAISE OF THE CONVERT: BELIEVE AND BELONG FROM THE CATHOLICITY OF LATIN AMERICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-339
Author(s):  
Felipe Gaytán Alcalá
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Latin America was considered for many years the main bastion of Catholicism in the world by the number of parishioners and the influence of the church in the social and political life of the región, but in recent times there has been a decrease in the catholicity index. This paper explores three variables that have modified the identity of Catholicism in Latin American countries. The first one refers to the conversion processes that have expanded the presence of Christian denominations, by analyzing the reasons that revolve around the sense of belonging that these communities offer and that prop up their expansion and growth. The second variable accounts for those Catholics who still belong to the Catholic Church but who in their practices and beliefs have incorporated other magical or esoteric scheme in the form of religious syncretisms, modifying their sense of being Catholics in the world. The third factor has a political reference and has to do with the concept of laicism, a concept that sets its objective, not only in the separation of the State from the Church, but for historical reasons in catholicity restraint in the public space which has led to the confinement of the Catholic to the private, leaving other religious groups to occupy that space.

scholarly journals Emergent Transportation “Platforms” in Latin America: Online Communities and Their Governance Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis H. Lozano-Paredes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Global South ◽  
Typical Structure ◽  
New Models ◽  
Community Platforms ◽  
America Online ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
American Cities

New models of peer governance are emerging from online communities in the Global South. This is visible in an understudied case of ridesharing “platforms” created on social media communities and materializing in Latin American cities. In this article, I investigate these online communities in different cities of Colombia and how they develop peer governance models. A particular focus is paid to developing organization forms that do not follow the typical structure of firms. In these communities, I study the relationships between members, community managers, and the governance rules they create, while illuminating the hierarchies present, the accountability of their administrators, and its legitimacy. The emerging literature on platform cooperativism, platform urbanism, and peer governance is used to structure a way to understand this new phenomenon with its “southern” particularities. Moreover, in-person and online qualitative research methods are incorporated to engage with the elusive nature of these structures. This will be one of the first studies engaging with the peer governance dilemmas emerging from online communities in the Global South. An analysis on what the platform literature and the institutional ecosystem in developing countries can harness from the particularities of these community-platforms as they evolve in these contexts is also included.

Sighting the Sound

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Paloma Martínez-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Alternative Music ◽  
American Artists ◽  
Western European

Characterized by ambiguous sexual energy and resistance to male domination and objectification, the visual idiom of punk rock communicated feminist prospects through the performance of fashion. This essay interprets the creative agency of Alice Bag, Marina “Del Rey” Muhlfriedel, Trudie “Plunger” Arguelles-Barret, and Helen “Hellin Killer” Roessler as Latina and Hispanic sono-spatial artists in the early days of L.A.’s punk subculture. Situating the performance practices of Hispana (Iberian) women alongside the Latina (hemispheric Latin American) artists, L.A. punk is situated within a Spanish-American borderlands matrix of meaning, where non–Western European roots of women in punk gain coherence as a specifically bordered set of historical circumstances. By embodying musical performativity as creators of a relational theatre of musical experience, the study asserts that women punk fans redefined how alternative music was generated, circulated, and consumed.

The Heroic Guerrilla

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Miguel La Serna
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
The State ◽  
Labor Leader ◽  
Labor Activists ◽  
Enrique Lopez Albujar ◽  
Che Guevara ◽  
San Martín

Daniel Bravo is a young boy in San Martin, a department in the Amazon. The son of a peasant labor leader, he experiences the effects of a police massacre of labor activists in Tabalosos. Victor Polay and Nestor Cerpa head up a guerrilla front in San Martin to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. The state counterinsurgency, headed by Defense Minister Enrique Lopez Albujar, comes to San Martin

Del Prete, Juan (1897–1987)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Berland
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Rio De La Plata ◽  
Río De La Plata ◽  
La Plata ◽  
American Artists

While the legacy of Juan Del Prete (b. 1897, Vasto, Chieti, Italy; d. 1987, Buenos Aires) begins with the introduction of visual abstraction to Argentina through two exhibitions of his work in 1933 and 1934 (both at the Asociación Amigos del Arte in Buenos Aires), his oeuvre, which spans over forty years, is largely characterized by experimentation in a variety of modernist styles. Born in Italy, Del Prete immigrated to Argentina in 1909 and studied briefly at the Academia Perugino and Mutualidad de Estudiantes de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, participating in the El Bermellón Group. Much of his early work was representational, and included landscapes like Nota campestre (1925). In 1926, Del Prete exhibited with the progressive organization Asociación Amigos del Arte, which awarded him a scholarship to study abroad in France (1929–1933). Del Prete was one of many Latin American artists living and working in Paris, and took part in a rich artistic exchange with Hans Arp, Massimo Campigli, Rachel Forner, Joaquín Torres García, Jean Hélion, and Georges Vantongerloo. Del Prete joined the Abstraction-Création group in 1932. In Paris, Del Prete exhibited with the Salon des Surindépendants (1930–1933), Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Huit artistes du Rio de la Plata, Galerie Castelucho-Dianan and the Première Exposition du Groupe Latino-Americain de Paris (1930). Moreover, Gallery Zak held an exhibition of Del Prete’s work in 1930, as did Galerie Vavin in 1931. His work from this period includes colorful geometric compositions including Abstracción (1932).

scholarly journals Dutch-Moroccan Girls Navigating Public Space: Wandering as an Everyday Spatial Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Wijntuin ◽  
Martijn Koster
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
Appropriate Behavior ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
The City

Based on qualitative research among female Dutch-Moroccan teenagers in two underprivileged neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, this article focuses on the spatial practices of young Muslim women in public space. Compared to their male counterparts, who “hang around” in groups, female teens spend less time in public space. We focus on girls’ “wandering practices” through the neighborhood, a spatial practice structured by their search for freedom (to spend time outside the home, to talk to friends in private) and by social control (to avoid the presence of young men, to avoid being gossiped about). Our research shows that wandering both decreases their visibility and pushes against gendered cultural norms about women in public space. By analyzing their wandering as a form of social navigation, we show how these teenagers maneuver through both the physical neighborhood and the gendered cultural norms regarding appropriate behavior in public space.

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