Responsible Artchitect: Urban Art as an Instrument of Urban Public Policies (Social Project “Crossword: the voice of Leblon”)

Abstract

Art is seen here as a trans-historical-temporal chronotype that creates socio-territorial (trans) heterotopias. The objective of the text is to authenticate this professional activity, from the interface with architecture, to the contemporary challenges of the social and architectural construction of sustainable and humanized cities. Artchitect acts in an anthropologically sensitive way to transform and preserve localities, traditions, memories, times, communities and geo-afective knowledge, to create a sense of toponymic belonging, but also to symbolic compensation, especially in social and environmental contexts “marked” by social inequality and urban violence. As an initial example of this proposed methodology, the author presents the socio-musical project “Crossword: the voice of Leblon”. Originated in a percussion workshop and joint practice of the artist Fred Le Blue with children “without activity” in “Condominium-Community” Crusade San Sebastian (Leblon, Rio de Janeiro) in 2009/2010 and aims at the humanistic and “artetetonic” reclassification of the built environment and lived negatively stigmatized.