XEPA: memória e escuta da feira livre do setor Pedro Ludovico

Abstract

When carrying out an urban reading of a specific location within a city, a wide range of technical procedures are often available, frequently addressing its multiple aspects in a distant and detached manner. Drawing from Hannah Arendt, it is understood that modernity has prioritized scientific methods over human faculties. As a counterpoint, this study argues for the necessity of a sensitive approach to the city, within which the present research is situated. The work explores the importance of memory for a sensorial understanding of a place’s past and present history within the city. Memory, as a guardian of the sensible, is seen here as a tool of resistance against erasure driven by forgetting, domination, and accelerating processes that consume everything. Accordingly, the research turns to the active and sensitive listening of the open-air market at Setor Pedro Ludovico, in Goiânia, as a place of memory production and everyday lived experience. The main objective is to implement an alternative methodology—one that, although already existent, is not commonly applied—which values sensible data mediated by memory and reflects on its role in knowledge construction and urban reading, aiming, in this research, to recognize in the market expressions of ordinary culture, following Michel de Certeau (1990). By reorganizing priorities, the research experiments with inversions that reveal the neighborhood in its plural complexity. This investigation carries out a bibliographic review on memory and its historical place within the thought of authors such as Bergson (2023), Bosi (2023), Pollak (1989), Halbwachs (1990), Nora (1993), Assmann (2011), Benjamin (2023), Napolitano (2018), and Arendt (2008 and 2022); it adopts ethnographic incursions as developed by Cibele Rizek (2022) and uses cartography as a field process (PASSOS; KASTRUP; ESCÓSSIA, 2009). Data collection includes sound and visual records, as well as institutional archival research, through which maps, texts, documents, and plans were retrieved, revealing the market’s spatial itinerary and its relations with the surroundings. Once the search for memory was established, the research seeks to clarify relations between markets and urban centers, drawing on authors such as Le Goff (1998), Braudel (1983 and 1995), and Mascarenhas (2008), among others. Finally, the methodological application proposed here transforms not only the field relation, but also the impact of the field on the researchers themselves. The results found thus far are grounded in the material supports of memory that could be heard, imagined, and recalled across places, objects, and gestures, indicating possible paths to apprehend the stacked layers of memory that shape lived places in the city.