Um lugar chamado Campinas: Transformações e Permanências

Abstract

This work is a reinterpretation of the oldest neighborhood in Goiânia, not just as a built space, but as a place endowed with memories and imagination. Its justification is based on the academic relevance of the topic, and focused on presenting, in the form of critical cartography, a reading of space based on the meaning attributed to specific places at the time of the construction of Goiânia. Thus, the main objective is to identify whether the characteristic imagery of Campinas, dating from the 1930s to the 1950s, physically resists transformations within the city's developmental perspective. Based on a phenomenological reading of photographs and other records from the time, we sought to identify representations of the place's imagination, considering the context of the time. The choice of time frame is justified by the period of construction and inauguration of the Center of Goiânia, a process that triggered significant impacts and renovations in the physical space of Campinas. The hypothesis, in turn, comes from the process of affirming Campinas as a traditionalist neighborhood in contrast to the new customs and Art Decó buildings proposed by the Goiânia project. Stating this, imagine a neighborhood in a rural city, where the residents know each other, the houses are low, the construction techniques are local, and the events are mainly religious. The methodology adopted was historiographical, through readings and references on the concepts of Place, Memory, and Imagination, in addition to the historical survey of the neighborhood; and cartography as a method of synthesizing the material collected. In this process, photographs and stories published by former residents were selected, which represented common places in the neighborhood's memory. These points, arranged in addition to the spatial and geographical maps, are represented in a countercartography that compares the recognition of these elements as representing the imagination of Campinas in the first decades of the construction of Goiânia and currently (in the year 2024).