Educação parental e dança inclusiva: experiências de promoção e inclusão

Ao longo dos tempos têm sido desenvolvidos vários esforços em prol do movimento da inclusão, implicando reformulações, por vezes acentuadas, ao nível da intervenção no âmbito educativo. Neste trabalho pretendemos reflectir sobre as práticas de inclusão, apresentando duas valências de intervenção existentes numa associação de arte inclusiva, ou seja, um programa de educação parental (Grupo Laços de Inclusão) e um grupo de dança inclusiva (Grupo Dançando com a Diferença). No primeiro caso temos a participação de um grupo de 16 pais (5 pais e 11 mães) de crianças/jovens (13 com e 2 sem necessidades educativas especiais) e no segundo caso temos um grupo constituído por 12 bailarinos (7 com e 6 sem necessidades educativas especiais). Descrevemos os diferentes módulos organizadores do programa de educação parental e a sua forma de implementação, bem como o funcionamento e organização do grupo de dança inclusiva. Referimos, ainda,os resultados preliminares sobre a contribuição destas valências à inclusão, comentando alguns dos dados recolhidos (entrevista e grelhas de avaliação) sobre a participação e a apreciação dos pais nas sessões de formação e analisando as percepções e motivações do público (inquérito) em relação a um espectáculo realizado pelo grupo de dança inclusiva.

Dança (inclusiva): o impacto do Grupo Dançando com a Diferença

A inclusão de pessoas com necessidades especiais, numa perspectiva de integração plena e de igualdade de oportunidades, constitui um desafio à sociedade actual, perspectivando a inclusão nos vários contextos de actuação. O objectivo central do estudo prende-se com a percepção do impacto do trabalho realizado por um grupo de Dança Inclusiva – Grupo Dançando com a Diferença (GDD) – que inclui 12 bailarinos com e sem necessidades especiais, existente na Madeira, cujo suporte teórico pressupõe que se coloque a qualidade artística ao nível da Dança, em prol da mudança da imagem social das pessoas com necessidades especiais. Optou-se por uma metodologia de natureza essencialmente qualitativa, realizando três focus group e uma entrevista individual, onde se pretendeu compreender o significado que os elementos do grupo atribuem à experiência de participação no GDD. Complementando, com uma perspectiva mais quantitativa, procurou-se analisar o impacto externo do GDD ao nível das notícias publicadas na comunicação social e ao nível das percepções do público que assiste aos espectáculos. Os dados recolhidos parecem revelar algumas mudanças nos participantes decorrentes da participação no grupo relacionados com as vertentes técnica e artística da dança, com as práticas de inclusão e em aspectos de índole mais pessoal. Ao nível da comunicação social os dados recolhidos parecem apontar para um número crescente de divulgação e eventuais alterações na tónica de questões associadas à deficiência para questões associadas à Dança. Relativamente ao impacto do GDD na sociedade, parece que as percepções e motivações do público dos espectáculos prendem-se primeiramente com o gosto pela dança, pelo conhecimento do trabalho do grupo e também pelo elenco diferencial de bailarinos. A análise dos dados de forma interligada permite perceber como a conceptualização inerente ao termo Dança Inclusiva rege o trabalho do GDD, comentar algumas limitações do estudo e propor linhas orientadoras para a sua continuidade.

A dança como fator de desenvolvimento pessoal e de inclusão: perceções de um grupo de dança inclusiva

Nos últimos anos a arte tem sido associada à promoção da inclusão. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar as perceções do impacto do grupo de Dança Inclusiva, Grupo Dançando com a Diferença, no desenvolvimento pessoal e na inclusão social dos seus elementos. No estudo participaram 20 sujeitos: 12 bailarinos (cinco bailarinos sem necessidades especiais e sete com necessidades especiais), cinco elementos que fazem parte da equipa técnica, e três encarregados de educação de bailarinos com deficiência mental. A recolha de dados foi realizada através da realização de focus groups junto de bailarinos, encarregados de educação e equipa técnica, e de uma entrevista individual ao Diretor Artístico. Os resultados apontam genericamente para perceções do grupo como agente facilitador da inclusão e de mudanças ao nível da aquisição de competências técnicas e artísticas, associadas ao desenvolvimento de competências sociais, permitindo perceber a dança também como forma de realização profissional e de inserção social.

Museus de arte contemporânea: noção, desenvolvimento, abordagens e perspectivas

Os conceitos de museu e de museologia há muito que estão em constante renovação. Os museus de hoje - particularmente aqueles que acolhem a arte contemporânea - são espaços dinâmicos, abertos a uma vasta tipologia de públicos, com variadas exigências e expetativas às quais as recentes baixas dotações e carências financeiras nem sempre possibilitam responder de forma satisfatória. Situando-se dentro das práticas museológicas atuais, esta dissertação pretende abordar os princípios fundamentais em torno dos museus de arte contemporânea como entidade institucional, dando especial atenção ao Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Funchal. Quais são as principais questões, preocupações e práticas pelo museu geridas? Que manifestações são necessárias para o desenvolvimento de infraestruturas de arte contemporânea idealizadas para uma determinada região ou plateia específica? O que é necessário para participar de forma significativa no contexto local?

Crítica descentrada para o senso comum: amostragem da reflexão acerca da comunicação contemporânea realizada na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Crítica descentrada para o senso comum: MUNIZ, Euzébia Maria de Pontes Targino; DANTAS, Juliana Bulhões Alberto; ALBANO, Sebastião Guilherme (Orgs). Amostragem da reflexão acerca da comunicação contemporânea realizada na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, RN: EDUFRN, 2012.

Identidade, memória e narrativas na dança de São Gonçalo do povoado Mussuca (SE)

This study deals with the participation of the dance of São Gonçalo of the Mussuca town/SE, in the process of construction of the ethnic identity among this social group. The Mussuca is a grouping recognized as afro-descendents, linked with black enslaved people in the valley of the Cotinguiba region. The collective memory functions as a drive of this linking with the past and if it makes to elaborate narratives on this descent. The objective of this study was to investigate the ways the rite went through to constitute itself as an element of ethnic representation. Internal and external agents had been identified who had participated in different contexts. By means of an ethnographic work we ve reached some aspects of the local structure social which demonstrated the contradictions through the social relations of the group. This process of ethnic autorecognition presents the kinship and the space question as definers of the social arrangements which establish its ethnic boundaries

Espaços especiais em Natal (moradia e meio ambiente): um necessário diálogo entre direitos e espaços na perspectiva de proteção aos direitos fundamentais na cidade contemporânea

Some protected special spaces on behalf of fundamental rights to the environment and the housing at the city of Natal are fragile by facing actions and attempts to suppress and changing (or omission in the implementation) of standards in furtherance of those rights at the local level, which seems to reflect a situation that goes beyond the context of the city. Based on integrated approach of the housing rights and the environment and its protection of special spaces on the field of fundamental rights, the thesis seeks to understand the weaknesses that affect the legal state duty under the realization/implementation of fundamental rights to the environment and housing in cities, focusing on the issues of flexibility of the founding legislation of special spaces to the detriment of the attributes they protected and the lack of implementation of the legal system that allows their effectiveness. So, it looks initially to understand the environment and housing rights and their special protected areas in the brazilian legal system, looking forward the evolution of its legal protection, as well as the weaknesses that emerge in the field of their effectiveness. Analyzing the trajectory of the environment and housing rights and their special protected areas in Natal, considering its standards, attributes, protection indicators, weaknesses and negative evidence within its legal protections and their enforcement by state entity, this thesis proposes to verify the existence of forms to confronting the weaknesses founded in the maintenance of legal protection and its implementation. At this point it discusses the legal basis and safeguard instruments of protection, especially within the juridical field, as part of a (re)discussion about issues of legislative and administrative discretion in the face of objective legal state duty to realization/implementation of fundamental rights in the urban space. With all these issues together the thesis does not ignore the scenario where the dividing line between public and private (economic) are becoming ever more tenuous in the field of state action and where the city stands as a special commodity to the reproduction of real estate, according to the interests of capitalist logic

Percepção Ambiental em Museus Paisagens de Arte Contemporânea: a legibilidade dos museus Inhotim/Brasil e em Serralves/Portugal avaliada pelo público/visitante

This thesis nalyzes the wayfinding in Landscape Museum of Contemporary Art (MPAC), based on the Institute of Contemporary Art CACI, Minas Gerais, Brazil and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal. The study focuses on the interrelationship of the public/visitors with the landscape, architecture and contemporary art museums in these, in order to understand visual perception and apprehension of such an environment for their users. For both were confronted documentation (visual and written) and people talk. The main hypothesis put forward is that the audience/visitor MPAC appreciates the interrelationship between the natural environment (park/garden) and built environment (the works of contemporary art and the galleries), giving equal value to both. To complement this, a second hypothesis is that during the visit to MPACS, visitors define their paths spontaneously, but strongly influenced by existing visual indicators (maps, signage and striking landscape elements), which facilitate the readability of space, which also contribute to the offered services and the experiences of similar institutions. The analytical basis of the research used the concepts of legibility (LYNCH, 2009), wayfinding (GIBSON, 2009; ARTHUR, PASSINI, 2002; WEISMAN, 1982), Experiential Cotinnum (TUAN, 1985), Space Bound (CRUZ PINTO, 2007) and habitus (BOURDIEU, 1992). Methodologically was used qualitative research (DEMO 2000) by means of a case study (YIN, 2005; STAKE, 1999) and participant observation (WHYTE, 2005). In the two institutions interviews with researchers and curators, behavior observation and questionnaires from employees, trainees, monitors and the public/visitor of the two museums were performed. Although partially referende the initial hypothesis, the research showed that the public/visitor value appears more natural environments, they experience a greater intensity and in addition to the factors listed in the second case, your perception and definition of paths suffer significant influence of emotional relations established with space. Generally the audience/visitor adapts easily to different demands of contemporary art exhibition in the two museums and the built environment (park/garden and museum) interferes with your reading path during the visit, perceived by the public/visitor condition as a factor that favors the enjoyment of works on different mounts (wayfinding), though often become a factor that hinders the legibility of the building and its built environment

Configurando a cidade contemporânea em Natal : os processos espaciais em Ponta Negra

This dissertation is about the spatial configuration in Natal and processes in the Ponta Negra neighborhood today. Ponta Negra has undergone a number of critical social and spatial changes due to tourism development after the 1990s. It is of special interest to consider the intensification of real estate investment after 2000, when the new airport terminal, located in the neighboring municipality of Parnamirim, was in use. Ponta Negra is the place where most tourists go to, so attracting considerable public investments. New agents of transformation have produced change in the neighborhood as well. The present study aims at analysing the spatial processes in this part of the city. Here, the spatial configuration that resulted from extended real estate investments, both public and private, in recent years, is analysed in detail. The study identifies the multually differentiated, however internally homogenous areas. The concepts of production of space, contemporanean urban development and spatial dynamics are discussed. The research is based on document analysis and field work. Results were plotted to maps and tables. A detailed analysis of the spatial processes in the Ponta Negra neighborhood is undertaken as a conclusion, considering the contemporanean global scenario

Condomínios fechados: a produção habitacional contemporânea e a auto-exclusão dos ricos no espaço urbano de Natal RN (1995 2003)

The present work analyzes the fast evolution of gated communities in Natal-RN´s urban space. Characterized by the occupation of large areas, providing private security and utilities, this kind of real estate use arises a long list of questions and issues from society and scholars, due to privatization of urban space, bending of law constraints and the lack of an integrated planning of the cities where they are built. The reasons for its fast growth in Brazil s urban areas are analyzed, considering the impact on formal urban planning and municipal services and on the identification of urbanistic, architectural pattern and constraints, as well as legal, social and economic issues. This study is based on the detailed analysis of the first three units of gated communities built in the urban space in Natal, between 1995 and 2003, including their evolution throughout time and the specific social and economic reasons for its present widespread adoption in Brazilian real estate market and, particulary, in our city. The main objective of this piece of work is to answer the why s and how s these phenomena evolved, setting a basis for the definition of adequate public policies and regulation of this kind of urban land use

Espaço público e sociabilidade urbana: apropriações e significados dos espaços públicos na cidade contemporânea

Study public space is studying the city and its dynamics through a representation point. The changes that are observed in these spaces and in the relations established there, or with it, are related to changes that occurred in the city as a whole, in the urban way of living. Study public space allied to urban sociability permits an even better focus on this relation between people in these spaces and with the spaces and in the consequences and fragile aspects this relation can impose to people and cities. This work is aimed towards this relation between public space and urban sociability. Through a conceptual/theoretical discussion aims, specifically, comprehend how to establish and what is the relation between urban space and urban sociability (appropriation/perception of place, tendencies of seclusion), from an isolated analysis of each one of these themes in the contemporaneous city. The Brazilian public space has peculiar characteristics, arising from its historical process of construction, also influenced by the public sphere fragile construction that permeates it, as well as more recent variables such as the sensation of insecurity and commodification of these places. The urban sociability influences and is influenced along all this process of significance and reframing of the public space. The conceptual discussion about each isolate variable provides the necessary coverage for discussion and analysis of the relation between them and the consequence of this relation in the city, such as the notation of relevant experiences of this process of revaluation of the public space. The hereby search is not through a path to reestablish the relation as it already existed, but also for an understanding of the dynamic as is established today and for existing possibilities for maintenance and appreciation of the relation between people and the city by believing in its importance to urban life

O metal na arquitetura contemporânea paraibana 1990-2002

This essay studies about contemporary architecture in João Pessoa, capital city of Paraiba State, which analyzes the utilization of steel and aluminum materials from 1990 to 2002, period when significant increase of this utilization is seen. As references, the architectural analysis and Engel structures definitions were used to analyze 40 built buildings, universe researched, to bring together subsidies to comprehend the contemporary production, especially which use the metal as structural and esthetic-formal element

Vitalidade no centro antigo Teresina, Piauí Praça Marechal Deodoro: uma intervenção contemporânea em área de valor patrimonial

This study deals with the discussions of contemporary interventions in public spaces in areas of heritage value. The product of this dissertation is an Intervention Project to Marechal Deodoro Square located in Teresina/PI center. The starting point for understanding the theme of this study is to investigate the accessibility and vitality of a public space - through relationship between form and uses. The spatial properties of accessibility and visibility as well as the distribution of land use - factors were associated with distinct patterns of vitality - and compared to usage patterns observed in situ and statements from users obtained through the results of the questionnaires. In attention to questions about the building constructed, particularly in historical centers, considers the guidelines to define intervention strategies in the square, consisted in the development of simulations that after evaluation of results of redesign, was chosen the best option to meet the necessary requirements to the performance, considering the spatial properties of integration and visibility that meet these requirements. Therefore, the "Intervention Project" carried out for the Marechal Deodoro Square characterization proposed items are discussed: spatial structure, vegetation, road network, pavements, street furniture and lighting