Didatic for urban analysis in precarious area: a study in the São Remo in São Paulo

Abstract

The article presents didactic experience that articulated other methodologies and disciplines for socio-territorial reading in slums of Sao Paulo. The postgraduate discipline sought to understand the urban and social dynamics of the São Remo slum in Sao Paulo, relating its historical formation and current reality. Faced with the transformations of the social and urban relations of the Sao Paulo slums in the last 20 years, the need to experiment with other didactic practices of reading and understanding is justified. The formation of researchers and designers suitable for other forms of reading led us to study the San Remo slum, associating theoretical research with the experience in the community. The results, synthesized in cartographies and diagrams, allowed clear access to the complex historical, territorial and social data of the slum and were ordered on a digital platform (site) to socialize the knowledge beyond the academic scope. We conclude that the analysis of the precarious areas needs an extended field of readings and reflections capable of contemplating the complexity of the place and its inhabitants, breaking the stigma that separates the understanding of the city in the life of precarious neighborhoods.