Os Desafios na elaboração de um projeto arquitetônico participativo para a construção da sede da associação de moradores do bairro Coqueiro, Luís Correia, Piauí

Abstract

We present the results of studies and interventions of participatory nature, carried out in the Coqueiro Neighborhood, Luís Correia, in the Piauí coast, one of the ten municipalities that make up the Environmental Protection Area - APA Delta do Parnaíba. Investigations of researchers from the Postgraduate Program, Professional Master’s Degree in Museology at the Federal University of Piauí - PPGAPM UFPI, in the Coqueiro Neighborhood, since 2014, allowed us to approach ten women, between 40 and 80 years old, members of the Association of Residentes of the Coqueiro Neigborhood - AMBC, over a year, thus enabling the use of action research. Direct contact with the community, the dialogical relationship established, facilitated the identification and problematization of forces, opportunities, fragilities and threats in the neighborhood, involving people and institutions, to delimit research and create products and services that meet the needs of a neighborhood inhabited mostly by fishing families; constructing in a collective and participative way a work that departed from the concepts of Museology and Social Innovation. The challenge and objective were focused on awareness raising, recognition, preservation and safeguarding of the cultural heritage of the place. The work with the AMBC was extremely important for the rapprochement between the researcher and the community, which allowed, based on our professional skills, we built the products and services of this research: an Architectural Project for AMBC’s headquarters, more than twenty years ago. Throughout the work, we have accompanied the legal and accounting advice of AMBC provided by PPGAPM UFPI; we participate in actions to raise funds for the construction of headquarters, which should be a community-based socio-cultural equipment capable of promoting interaction between local people, public, private and social enterprises, always considering the concept of participation and social inclusion, a systematic exercise of citizenship, valuing cultural heritage, affirming identity and belonging. Thus, we find that the university-researcher-community partnership is an important development and innovation tool. The relation of approach and exchange of knowledge feeds an ongoing process of teaching-learning where daily practices are supports for the confrontation of theory with the needs of the reality of a community.