A LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCE: URBAN INTERVENTIONS IN CITY OF NATAL AS EXPRESSION OF THE RHIZOMATIC CONDITION
Landscape. Experience. Urban interventions. Rhizome.
From an open approach to space, we take urban interventions as a conducting element of a landscape experience in the city of Natal. Constituted by the itinerant movement of the body in encounter with the world, with space, the landscape is understood here as becoming, that is, always being made. The present thesis sought, from the notion of Rizoma, to present the landscape of Natal through urban interventions, which we believe to mobilize the lines of the rhizome, evidencing a rhizomatic condition. The diversity of interventions that is distinguished in the landscape produces sensations, affects, positive or negative, a landscape experience that can refer to order, freedom, beauty, excess, repetition, the extraordinary. Thus, as an expression of multiplicity, urban interventions constitute different spatialities, mobilizing different points of view and perspectives in the public space of the city. In the path traced to achieve the objectives of the thesis, we consider the assemblages that take place in the spaces of coexistence and visibility of the city, the way in which they are constantly territorialized, deterritorialized and reterritorialized. We seek, this time, to guide our thinking beyond the binomial materiality/immateriality, subject/object, society/nature. There is no separation between them, but a body of multiplicities. Following this premise of reciprocity, the territory, a concept that for Deleuze and Guattari (1997) takes place through assemblage, is composed both by its content, machinic assemblages of bodies (or desires), and by its expression, the collective assemblages of enunciation. The first is constituted as the manifestation of the relationship that occurs between bodies, and the second refers to the statements, to a regime of signs, whose expression machine is based on a social fabric and not on a subject. In this way, we took the testimonies of the interveners as a source of investigation in which it was possible, based on subjectivity and personality, to consider the existence of a collectivity that is established among those who transgress the landscape. Thinking about urban intervention from the agencies that carry it out, implied considering the combination of bodies, whose associations, in addition to distinct expressions in the landscape, correspond to the continuous process of territorialization/deterritorialization/reterritorialization. Expressing the rhizomatic condition, the urban interventions that appear in the landscape are both predictable, countable, like the lines of segmentarity, and unpredictable, corresponding to rupture, and creating the new, such as lines of flight.