Quando o jogo vira brincadeira: o uso da cidade pelas crianças e a subversão das regras impostas pelo planejamento urbano

Abstract

The city, like many areas of everyday life, is subject to certain rules that dictate how each space must be used, which restricts its uses and cut the link between human and city. The present research seeks, through the presence of children in the urban space, to understand how the rules imposed by urban planning expel them from urban life and how they, by playing games, manage to break these rules and take for themselves even spaces that were once abandoned. The city of Santa Rita de Cássia, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, was used as the object of this study. The urban apprehension took place through wanderings and strolling around the city, which made it possible to locate four spaces in which the presence of children was remarkable. Then, stopping to investigate the relationships and dynamics between people and these spaces took place, and the results are synthesized through narratives that tell the history of the field in a symbolic way. Finally, an essay is carried out in one of the chosen places, seeking to propose an intervention in the place, claiming back that space for the people, but at the same time does not limit its use, allowing children to continue playing and living the city.