Imaterial production of space and urban desires accomplishment

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the public space immaterial production triggered by the performance of the urban social movement “A Batata Precisa de Você” in its various forms of appropriation and emancipatory political actions. The city, discussed here as its spatial characteristics and the transformation social power of these symbiosis, provides to population self-managed urban manifestations a resistance instrumental dimension, and beyond, instigate hypotheses about the future of spaces and urban life. It was observed that spontaneous action conditions of urban social movements allows collectives collaborative actions that, although ephemeral, are able to reinvent new senses to space and arouse new perceptions of the city. Aware that small daily actions or punctual appropriations do not promote immediate urban transformations, it’s considered that promote collective of social imaginaries creation; or long-term transformation processes. Finally, the emergent demand for cities construction process revision, involving and creating expanded participation spaces, where training processes are created for collective practices production, public participation, and access to decisions that effectively produce the urban space.