Abstract:
This work presents cartography of five Suburban Houses of Art, Culture and Memory located
in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Created autonomously, taking advantage of
dependencies of old residences. As a result of the community's efforts, starting in the 2000‘s,
these spaces began to develop initiatives and museological processes as a reaction to the
abandonment framework and cultural desertification, acting in the socio-cultural reactivation
and the formation of a social memory structure of these regions far from the administrative
and cultural center of the city and setting up a new route of museology of the city, researched
here from the perspective of sociomuseology or social museology. In order to reach the
objective of the cartographic analysis proposed as a product, the work describes in its first
chapters: dawns and sunsets of the socio-cultural life of this part of the city, motivated
sometimes by omission, sometimes by the public management policies of the city and the
community agency with its culture policies promoted by artists, groups and collectives that
make up the autochthonous cultural activism of this region. For this, it uses historiographical
research, pre-structured interviews with people linked to cultural mediation and patronage in
this region. Finally, as a result of the cartography, it is intended to understand information on
the genesis of these Community spaces of art, culture and memory, which is common in their
formations and performances, how they deal with their idiosyncratic questions, and also with
particular data on the sensitive experience of each space analyzed on the map, which can
demonstrate to the role of memory, culture and art in the struggle for the guarantee of the right
to the city.
