scholarly journals Habitation, Urban Context and Psychosocial Rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruna Mota Rodrigues ◽  
Mauro César de Oliveira Santos ◽  
Ivani Bursztyn
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
The West ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
The City

This paper articulates architecture, urbanism and mental health through the study of specific habitation, called Therapeutic Residences, for people with severe mental illness who undergo psychosocial rehabilitation. The study analyzes the insertion of these habitations in the urban scheme, in relation to the possibilities of social coexistence, access to commerce, services and other public equipment through the presentation of two case studies located in the west zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Besides the considerations linked to the urban space in its physical sense, it also touches on the subjective questions inherent to the exchanges and experiences possible in this context. The methodological strategies correspond to the survey and data analysis along with a qualitative approach. Information made available by City Hall and Mental Health Office, satellite images, semi-structured interviews directed to professionals involved in assisting at the Therapeutic Residences and, in the case of the habitants, open interviews were used. The results indicate the offer of services, the location and the relation of the houses with the street as fundamental factors to the stimulus of social coexistence. It is concluded that the closed condominium model exclusive to TR, in addition to the fragility and difficulties in the urban area in which it is inserted, it hinders the process of psychosocial rehabilitation and it still refers to the idea of an asylum institution. The model of a one-story house integrated to the consolidated urban fabric suggests more possibilities of creating community ties and appropriating the urban space.

scholarly journals Student Homelessness: Sheltering Our Future: An Adaptable Approach to Underutilised City Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caryl Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Modular Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
The City

<p>The increasing housing demands from population growth creates a persistent housing shortage and unaffordability in our cities. Students are one demographic that is dramatically affected as they move closer to their education provider for study. The student influx at the start of the semester creates a large demand in the already inadequate housing market. Students with a limited budget have reduced accommodation options and this consequently drives many into a state of homelessness. A study from University of Otago measures that over a quarter of New Zealand’s homeless population are students (Amore, 2016). This considerable number of students are living in cars, tents, couch-surfing and sleeping rough for weeks during their studies. The desperate situation impinges on the student’s health and well-being and thus their academic performance.  In this context, the scope of this research focuses on the requirements of homeless tertiary students in the urban setting. Their vulnerability, insecurity and distress are explored to provide direction to solutions that will alleviate the existing problems of their insufficient living environments. As proximity to the education providers and amenities are key factors, this thesis examines underutilised and leftover spaces within the city as opportunities for inhabitation, and to create efficient use of urban space. Currently, there are successful examples of activating overlooked laneways into vibrant spaces. However, these transformations rely on the activities in the lane and the interventions are largely landscaping and installations. By investigating the successful regeneration of previously undesirable and neglected spaces through architectural re-imagination, this thesis identify laneways to be a potential site to the urgent need for shelters.  The architectural experiments and design development are informed by the combination of site challenges and programme to form an overall design-led research. The thesis tests how temporary modular design has a significant role in the design of economic and adaptable solutions for the increasing issue of homelessness. This establishes that through a critical design, we may shelter those in desperate need within the urban context. The architecture provides a safe environment that is empathetic to its users and the larger urban scale while also creating a statement and awareness to homelessness. The thesis concludes with the design framework for a single test site and assesses its suitability for future application to other leftover spaces in the city.</p>

scholarly journals Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Totaforti
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The research presented in this article adopts an urban sociology perspective to explore the relationship between spaces designed with biophilic principles and people’s pro-environmental values and behaviors. The research hypothesized that biophilic design and planning promote connectedness with nature and are positively related to pro-environmental and more sustainable values and behaviors. The contemporary city asserts the need for new paradigms and conceptual frameworks for reconfiguring the relationship between the urban environment and the natural environment. In order to understand whether biophilic design, planning, and policies can meet the global challenges regarding the future existence on earth of humans, focus groups were conducted to investigate how people’s relationship with the built-up space and the natural landscape is perceived, and to what extent the inclusion of nature and its patterns at various levels of urban planning meets people’s expectations. The results suggest that biophilic design and planning can be considered a useful paradigm to deal with the challenges that are posed by the city of the future, also in terms of sustainability, by reinterpreting and enhancing the human–nature relation in the urban context.

scholarly journals GRANDES EMPREENDIMENTOS HABITACIONAIS NA CIDADE DE UBERLÂNDIA – MG

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivone Tavares Batista ◽  
Julio Cesar De Lima Ramires
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Real Estate Projects ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Land Space

LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF UBERLÂNDIA – MGGRANDES EMPRENDIMIENTOS HABITACIONALES EN LA CIUDAD DE UBERLÂNDIA – MGO presente artigo busca demostrar e equiparar algumas formas de ocupação do espaço territorial urbano, onde os empreendimentos imobiliários, em parcerias com o Governo Federal, trazem para os municípios os conjuntos habitacionais, que comtemplam principalmente a população de baixa renda. Este trabalho objetiva analisar os empreendimentos habitacionais de interesse social implantados ao longo de décadas na cidade de Uberlândia, os quais implicam grandes efeitos na conjuntura urbana da cidade. Utiliza-se, como metodologia principal, pesquisas de arquivos da Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia, tendo como resultado o número de famílias atendidas pelos programas de habitação popular, o que traz a lume o grande valor da expansão das políticas públicas em relação à casa própria. Foi destacado, como objeto de análise, o grande empreendimento implantado no Setor Sul da cidade, denominado de Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI e VII, que colaborou para a diminuição da falta de moradia no Município de Uberlândia – MG.Palavras-chave: Espaço Urbano; Conjuntos Habitacionais; Ocupações Irregulares; Governo.ABSTRACTArticle present search demonstrate and match some forms of occupation of urban land space, where real estate projects with government partnerships bring to the municipalities the housing, which will mainly contemplate the low-income population, may provide these quality a dignified life. This work aims to analyze the housing developments of social interest implanted over decades in the city of Uberlândia using as main methodology searches files of the City Hall of Uberlândia resulting in the number of families served by the popular housing programs, realizing how much is necessary expansion of public policies in relation to home ownership. It was highlighted as analyzed in the great enterprise implant in Sector South of the city, called Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI and VII, which contributed to the reduction of homelessness in the city of Uberlândia - MG.Keywords: Urban Space; Housing Estates; Illegal Occupation; Government.RESUMEN El presente artículo busca demostrar y equipar algunas formas de ocupación del espacio territorial urbano, donde los emprendimientos inmobiliarios en alianzas con el Gobierno, traen a los municipios los conjuntos habitacionales, que van a comportarse principalmente a la población de bajos ingresos. Este trabajo objetiva analizar los emprendimientos habitacionales de interés social implantados a lo largo de décadas en la ciudad de Uberlândia utilizando como metodología principal investigaciones archivos del Ayuntamiento Municipal de Uberlândia dando como resultado el número de familias atendidas por los programas de vivienda popular, percibiendo cuán necesaria es la expansión de las políticas públicas en relación a la casa propia. Se destacó como objeto de análisis el gran emprendimiento implantado en el Sector Sur de la ciudad, denominado de Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI y VII, que colaboró para la disminución de la falta de vivienda en el Municipio de Uberlândia - MG.Palabras clave: Espacio Urbano; Conjuntos Habitacionales; Ocupaciones Irregulares; Gobierno.

scholarly journals Perancangan Buku Resep Masakan dan Jajanan Tradisional Khas Tana’ Taliang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Rizkillah Lestiannina ◽  
Sunardy Kasim
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Buffalo Milk ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
City Center ◽  
The West ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Taliwang is the city center of a new district, West Sumbawa district, which is on the island of Sumbawa in the West Nusa Tenggra (NTB) province. West Sumbawa is one of the tourist destinations in the NTB province, apart from having beautiful tourist objects, West Sumbawa also has a wide variety of traditional food destinations. Palopo is one of the unique specialties whose basic processing process uses buffalo milk is one of the uniqueness of traditional snacks typical of Taliwang, West Sumbawa. To introduce these traditional Taliwang snacks, especially for the younger generation, a cookbook was designed with qualitative methods and a design thinking approach to get the right problem-solving solutions in designing works, by conducting observations and semi-structured interviews. The results of this study used two media, namely media. primary cookbook and traditional snacks and secondary media namely xbanner and merchandise. By designing this illustration book, it is hoped that it can attract the interest of the younger generation to want to learn about and preserve the traditional dishes and snacks of the region.

scholarly journals Memórias, narrativas políticas e dicotomias da cidade: Olhares Fílmicos sobre Recife-PE

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (45) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendell Marcel Alves da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Short Films ◽  
The Look ◽  
The City ◽  
City Film

Este trabalho analisa o objeto do olhar a cidade do Recife-PE e as suas características espaciais e sociais a partir da perspectiva antropológica e fílmica. A discussão tem como ponto de partida a questão de documentar e ficcionalizar a cidade por meio das narrativas fílmicas do espaço urbano, e também de como o olhar sobre a cidade pode ser analisada através da ótica espacial e fílmica. Considera-se, portanto, os arranjos espaciais, imagéticos, identitários e estéticos presentes no âmbito urbano para então discursar acerca do problema central deste trabalho: os olhares fílmicos construídos da cidade do Recife-PE por meio das narrativas fílmicas dos curtas-metragens pernambucanos. Dessa indagação parte-se às contribuições do imaginário urbano, da memória e da identidade como elementos que constituem a construção do olhar para a cidade.Palavras-chave: Olhares fílmicos. Cidade. Recife-PE.Memories, narrative policies and dicotomies of the city: Film Looks on Recife-PE    AbstractThis work analyzes the object of the look at the city of Recife-PE and its spatial and social characteristics from an anthropological and film perspective. The discussion has as its starting point the question of documenting and fictionalizing the city through the film narratives of urban space, as well as how the view of the city can be analyzed through space and film optics. The spatial, imaginary, identity, and aesthetic arrangements present in the urban context are then considered, and the discourse about the central problem of this work is considered: the film-based views constructed from the city of Recife-PE through the film narratives of Pernambucan short films. From this question we start with the contributions of the urban imaginary, memory and identity as elements that constitute the construction of the look for the city.Keywords: Film looks. City. Recife-PE. 

scholarly journals Grass-Roots Initiatives and Bottom-Up Musealisation Mechanisms in Urban Space: The Case of Heraklion Crete

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1912-1926
Author(s):  
Konstantina Nikolopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Grass Roots Initiatives ◽  
The City

Heraklion is gradually transforming into the newest tourist destination in Crete, which is one of the most popular island destinations in Greece. The regional statutory and local tourist bodies aim to develop Heraklion as a destination per se, overcoming the “gateway to the rest of the island” identity that the city currently holds. At the same time, grass-roots initiatives are active in the city context, defending public space and urban cultural heritage, in idiosyncratic, bottom-up ways. This paper investigates the role undertaken by three such initiatives, currently active in Heraklion, to better comprehend their possible impact on the urban landscape and cultural heritage, within this gradually developing tourist landscape. The structure, aims and vision of the initiatives were documented through semi-structured interviews. Their actions, despite being diverse, are compared to the wider activity of similar initiatives in Greece, especially against neoliberal politics, culminating in defending public space, activating bottom-up musealisation mechanisms and participating in urban design in their own ways.

For “a no-state yet to come”: Palestinians urban place-making in Kufr Aqab, Jerusalem

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862094387
Author(s):  
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Place Making ◽  
The West ◽  
Limited Scale ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City ◽  
Colonial Frontier

This article explores Palestinians’ place-making in Jerusalem under the constant threat of displacement and dispossession. I center my focus on Kufr Aqab, a neighborhood that was cut off from Jerusalem by the construction of Wall in 2003 while remaining inside the borders of the city’s municipality. After 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the borders of Jerusalem’s municipality expanded and Kufr Aqab village was annexed as a neighborhood inside Jerusalem’s newly formed borders. Since its occupation, a matrix of displacement and dispossession consisting of policies and practices was put in place to oversee the domination of the Palestinians in the city. In my research, I explore the possibilities of reconceptualizing Palestinian urban spaces and place-making in Kufr Aqab between the gap in settler-colonial governance and the Palestinian future of no-state. I show how the urban space emulates a camp-like space that I describe as an “affective infrastructure” of a camp. Being on the Israeli settler-colonial frontier, I argue that Kufr Aqab dwellers are kept suspended in time in a liminal zone between the ghost of displaceability from the Israeli state and in a deep suspension of no-state. I conclude by suggesting that the case of Kufr Aqab speaks to the space-making, displacement, and statelessness of the present as well as futurity of the West Bank (and East Jerusalem), where the future of the Palestinian state is far from being seen in the horizon and debilitated sovereignty is exercised on a limited scale in fragmented territories of governance.

scholarly journals Resistência e identidade no urbano: a black music dita os passos e a apropriação do espaço no Quarteirão do Soul em Belo Horizonte

GeoTextos ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Aparecida da Conceição Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Black Music ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Common ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The City

O crescimento urbano, associado ao desenvolvimento tecnológico, atribui outros sentidos para a cidade e novos de sociabilidade. Estes, muitas vezes, se constituem a partir da fruição de produtos midiáticos. Assim, vemos surgir espaços que se transformam pela apropriação de grupos identificados com determinados produtos culturais. Este trabalho busca investigar, a partir das manifestações ligadas aos produtos da mídia, como as diversas identidades se constituem no espaço urbano e como estas influenciam na apropriação e nos novos usos deste espaço. Nossa abordagem tem como objeto empírico as manifestações ligadas à black music, mais especificamente ao Quarteirão do Soul, movimento que acontece nas tardes de sábado na região central de Belo Horizonte. O Quarteirão do Soul surgiu como uma forma de se reencontrarem os amigos que frequentavam os chamados bailes black no centro da cidade nos anos 1970 e que, com o passar dos anos, foram sendo expurgados para a periferia da cidade. Tal manifestação constitui uma forma de resistência, pois os participantes do Quarteirão do Soul se apropriaram do local mesmo sem o aval da prefeitura, e também caracteriza-se pela afirmação da identidade de seus participantes, que se espelham no discurso de igualdade pregado pelo movimento soul representado principalmente pela figura do cantor James Brown. Abstract DEFIANCE AND IDENTIFY IN THE URBAN CONTEXT: BLACK MUSIC SETS THE TONE AND CONQUERS SPACE IN THE QUARTEIRÃO DO SOUL IN BELO HORIZONTE Urban growth, associated with technologic development, assigns new meanings to cities; new influences are delineated and create different parameters of sociability. Such parameters, many times constitute themselves from the flow of media products. Therefore, in Belo Horizonte, we see new spaces being formed or the same old locations transforming themselves thorough the appropriation of groups formed by the common taste for specific cultural products. This work intends to investigate, based on the manifestations connected with media products, how different identities establish themselves in the urban space and how they influence the appropriation and new uses ascribed to the space. Our approach has as an empirical object the manifestations linked with black music, most specifically to the Quarteirão do Soul, an event that takes place on saturday afternoons in the central region of Belo Horizonte. The Quarteirão do Soul was born as a form of reconnecting with friends that frequented the so called black parties in the center of the city in the 70s, and that, with the years were obliterated to the suburbs. This manifestation constitutes a form of resistance, because its participants appropriate themselves of the place without the clearance from the mayor’s office and it characterizes itself by the affirmation of the identity of its attendees, which mirror themselves in the discourse of equality preached by the soul movement represented primarily by the figure of the singer James Brown.

scholarly journals A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DOS EXERGAMES NO ÂMBITO DA SAÚDE MENTAL: percorrendo outros percursos e traçando outras formas de fazer o cuidado

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adilson Rocha Ferreira ◽  
Deise Juliana Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Interaction Mechanism ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Salud Mental ◽  
The City ◽  
Potential Tool

O contexto da Saúde Mental é marcado por mobilizações que visam a reestruturação do modelo assistencial às pessoas em sofrimento psíquico. Para instituir ações que apoiem a busca pela autonomia dos usuários dos serviços de atenção à saúde mental, surgem as oficinas terapêuticas, que são atividades desenvolvidas em grupo com a presença e orientação de profissionais, constituindo a principal forma de tratamento oferecida nos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS). O objetivo desse relato de experiência foi verificar a avaliação do uso dos videogames que utilizam o movimento do corpo humano como mecanismo de interação – exergames – por pessoas em processo de reabilitação psicossocial de um CAPS do município de Maceió-AL. Foram desenvolvidas quatro oficinas terapêuticas com os exergames, com o intuito de proporcionar práticas corporais para pessoas em sofrimento psíquico. Quatro usuários do CAPS participaram dos encontros. Após analisar as oficinas, pode-se considerar que os exergames constituem uma ferramenta potencial a ser implementado no processo de reabilitação de pessoas em sofrimento psíquico, possibilitando outras formas de realizar o cuidado no âmbito da Saúde Mental.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Reabilitação psicossocial; Jogos digitais; CAPS; Exercício físico; Formas de apropriação.   ABSTRACT The context of Mental Health is marked by mobilizations that seek to restructure the care model to people in psychological distress. In order to institute actions that support the search for the autonomy of the users of the mental health services, the therapeutic workshops are developed, which are activities developed in a group with the presence and orientation of professionals, constituting the main form of treatment offered in the Centers of Psychosocial Attention (CAPS). The objective of this experience report was to verify the evaluation of the use of videogames that use human body movement as an interaction mechanism - exergames - by people in the process of psychosocial rehabilitation of a CAPS in the city of Maceió-AL. Four therapeutic workshops were developed with the exergames in order to provide corporal practices for people in psychological distress. Four CAPS users attended the meetings. After analyzing the workshops, it can be considered that the exergames constitute a potential tool to be implemented in the process of rehabilitation of people in psychological distress, enabling other ways of performing care in the field of Mental Health.    KEYWORDS: Psychosocial rehabilitation; Digital games; CAPS; Physical exercise; Forms of appropriation.   RESUMEN El contexto de la salud mental se caracteriza por manifestaciones destinadas a la reestructuración del modelo de atención de salud para las personas en los trastornos psicológicos. De interposición de acciones para apoyar la búsqueda de la autonomía de los usuarios de los servicios de salud mental, hay talleres terapéuticos, que son actividades en un grupo con la presencia y orientación de profesionales y es la principal forma de tratamiento que se ofrece en los centros de salud mental de la comunidad (CAPS). El objetivo de este informe de la experiencia fue evaluar la evaluación del uso de los juegos de vídeo que utilizan el movimiento del cuerpo humano como mecanismo de interacción - exergames - por las personas en proceso de rehabilitación psicosocial de un CAPS en la ciudad de Maceió-AL. Cuatro talleres terapéuticos con exergames fueron desarrollados con el fin de proporcionar prácticas corporales de las personas en los trastornos psicológicos. Cuatro miembros de lo CAPS participaron en los encuentros. Tras el análisis de los talleres, se puede considerar que exergames son una herramienta potencial para ser implementado en el proceso de rehabilitación de las personas en los trastornos psicológicos, lo que permite otras maneras de lograr la atención bajo la Salud Mental.    PALABRAS CLAVE: Rehabilitación psicossocial; Juegos digitales; CAPS; Ejercicio físico; Formas de propiedad.

scholarly journals Pensando la inmigración desde las instituciones de la ciudad

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Kayamba Tshitshi Ndouba
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
The City

This paper conducts a bibliographic review of the main theoretical formulations that make migration processes dialogue with urban dynamics. From this, two records of academic literature arise. The first one, from a sociological approach, problematizes not only the modalities of gradual integration of immigrants into urban space but also the challenges resulting from the forms of occupation and transformation of the social, economic, cultural, and symbolic spaces of the city. The second one has a political science approach that explores the new analytical perspectives that reconstruct and reformulates the problems of the urban management of immigration, examining the different scenarios and factors that influence and shape the governance of immigration and cultural diversity in cities. These two approaches are significantly useful and have undeniable heuristic value to construct a modern immigration theory in the urban context.

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