The Arco-íris Institute and a critique of the Urban Project in Florianópolis

Abstract

The role played by the Arco-íris Human Rights Institute in downtown Florianópolis underscores the characteristics of the so-called eastern area: a historical part of the center known for cultural aspects, bohemia, and marked by the presence of a population in a situation of social vulnerability which seeks care in the various assistance entities present in the environment. This urban context is now the focus of the debate on the requalification of the central area of the city. With proposals coming from the relationship between private organizations and public power, which present alternatives based on the principles of strategic urban planning and trends for elitisation and social hygiene. In view of this, it is reflected in the construction of another basis for the urban project in Florianópolis that takes into account the importance of social assistance policies, the central role played by housing and the right of permanence of social and
cultural groups that currently populate the center of the city.