Creative appropriation – A project for the political community in the public space

Abstract

The creative and critical appropriation of the urban territory of art considers the population that lives in substandard conditions of habitability, tenements and occupations of empty buildings of the his- toric centre, on the one hand, and the slums, on the other. This action shows a new impetus to the notion of public procedure and the possibility of emergence of new potential forms of local demo-
cracies. This is the context in which one wants to ask the equation society- citizenship in the town in São Paulo and remark the intricate relationship between ruins and virtues in the metropolis for the project of architecture and the city.