Fourth International Conference on Tourism and Leisure Studies

Abstract

The experiences of urban recognition in the degraded historical areas of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, aim to enhance, through the mobility and new sensory absorption devices, an approximation between the researcher and places. A strategy that aims to compose an urban atlas to re-sing the important sections of the city, cut from the Costa and Silva viaduct, or as it is popularly known: Minhocão (completed in 1971, “the largest all Latin America”). The results design cartographies that built in this medium, an experience-action that uses the senses and a range of representative devices and supports, considering the walking dislocations and the interaction with “the others”, in regions of drug addicts. Wandering that produces signs inscriptions through a letting go from the ground, giving rise to readings of other cities within the city and revealing hidden dynamics, estrangement, shock and critical visions, by means of the “dérive” and walking as a cognitive tool and planning. When we cross-unchecked areas, discontinuities and undefined territories of these central spaces, we look for the pieces of a new puzzle of historical areas and transformation processes of the center of the city of São Paulo, a mosaic that has yet to be created. Especially, because, nowadays, this elevated road is closed to traffic on the weekends, and becomes a place of leisure for the population. In this sense, we try to bring the light the opaque spaces, and new places of meeting of the city, which emerges of this elevated road.