Street Art: Institutions, art and urban management in Brazil and Canada
<p>Urban management requires the economic return on public investments and reduced maintenance costs. Street art is important for urban regeneration improving upon local sustainability or renewal of spaces. Programs that combine urban management with street art exist with similar characteristi...
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| author | Gerson José de Mattos Freire Joao Victor Faria Freire |
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| description | <p>Urban management requires the economic return on public investments and reduced maintenance costs. Street art is important for urban regeneration improving upon local sustainability or renewal of spaces. Programs that combine urban management with street art exist with similar characteristics in Brazil and Canada. The paper seeks to determine the conditions under which public institutions stimulate or favor artistic intervention in two communities with distinct characteristics - Belo Horizonte - Brazil and Toronto - Canada – looking for common grounds. In Belo Horizonte, it analyzes the actions of the Gentileza movement; in Toronto, the StreetARToronto (StART) program. Methodology uses interviews with program managers to understand and evaluate the investments, their distribution and the gains obtained from the interventions. Results are that both programs seek to reduce graffiti vandalism. At the same time, they create opportunities and spaces for the expansion and integration of the artistic community and res-idents, mediating conflicts, and creating local value by improving public areas. The Canadian program has structural advantages decisive for its current existence, while the Brazilian one is living a germinal moment; The use of its trans-forming potential and the necessary steps for its expansion can be observed in the Canadian experience. We conclude that the programs have similarities, but success is not automatic, and their existence and continuity depend on the work of all the partners engaged in the urban transformation through art.</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.24.2020.7">https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.24.2020.7</a></p> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0c882cbc96b94b05b042069aafd2acd32025-08-20T04:02:26ZengUniversity of L'AquilaDisegnare con1828-59612020-06-01132417305Street Art: Institutions, art and urban management in Brazil and CanadaGerson José de Mattos Freire0Joao Victor Faria Freire1Centro Universitário Metodista Izabela HendrixSeneca College of Applied Arts and Technology School of Creative Arts & Animation<p>Urban management requires the economic return on public investments and reduced maintenance costs. Street art is important for urban regeneration improving upon local sustainability or renewal of spaces. Programs that combine urban management with street art exist with similar characteristics in Brazil and Canada. The paper seeks to determine the conditions under which public institutions stimulate or favor artistic intervention in two communities with distinct characteristics - Belo Horizonte - Brazil and Toronto - Canada – looking for common grounds. In Belo Horizonte, it analyzes the actions of the Gentileza movement; in Toronto, the StreetARToronto (StART) program. Methodology uses interviews with program managers to understand and evaluate the investments, their distribution and the gains obtained from the interventions. Results are that both programs seek to reduce graffiti vandalism. At the same time, they create opportunities and spaces for the expansion and integration of the artistic community and res-idents, mediating conflicts, and creating local value by improving public areas. The Canadian program has structural advantages decisive for its current existence, while the Brazilian one is living a germinal moment; The use of its trans-forming potential and the necessary steps for its expansion can be observed in the Canadian experience. We conclude that the programs have similarities, but success is not automatic, and their existence and continuity depend on the work of all the partners engaged in the urban transformation through art.</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.24.2020.7">https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.24.2020.7</a></p>https://disegnarecon.univaq.it/ojs/index.php/disegnarecon/article/view/636urban managementstreet arturban renewal |
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