Between the conceived and the lived, the practiced: the crossing of spaces at the arts and crafts fair of Namorados Square in Vitória/ES, Brazil

Entre o concebido e o vivido, o praticado: o entrecruzamento dos espaços na feira de artes e artesanato da Praça dos Namorados em Vitória/ES

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the organizational space of a fair (the Arts and Crafts Fair of the Namorados Square, in Vitória, Espírito Santo) constitutes itself as an intersection of uses that different subjects adopt in the urban space. For this, we used an ethnographic method, with the data produced from systematic and participative observations between May and October 2015. We examined the data based on categories created from the theoretical propositions of the authors Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau. Results show that the organization of the fair is determined by provisional practices, whose existence is permeated by manifestations of power, resistance and conflict, which emerge from the daily life of the subjects. By revealing forces that act by forming ephemeral harmonies, we show the intersections of space that are conceived and lived. The fair, as an organizational form, emerges from the juxtaposition of uses and appropriations of its spaces, in dynamic relationships that privilege space concepts elaborated by certain subjects and sometimes by others.

Keywords:
Organizational Symbolism; Space; Ethnography; Fair