URBAN GRAPHISM:

graffiti case study in the Eldorado neighborhood (Contagem – MG)

Abstract

Urban graphics are forms that denote a type or a certain form of expression produced to convey some type of message or information, in various situations and scales. Among them, then, graffiti stands out, which are ways of demarcating and imposing the presence of people or groups symbolically and in urban landscapes through words, signs, formats, colors, and drawings. With the graffiti, there are clues about people considered younger, using these mechanisms and attractions in the centralities and strategic points of the urban space. Thus, this study aims to present, understand, and analyze the patterns and densities in a generic way of Urban Graphics found in an important centrality of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte: the Cidade Jardim Eldorado neighborhood, in Contagem, Minas Gerais. In this work, possible relations between graffiti and urban areas were also sought. Inventory techniques were used together with georeferencing to create a map that illustrates the distribution and dynamics of the graffiti artists. The methodology followed procedures adopted in previous works developed in the city of Belo Horizonte, comprising the following steps: route planning; use of these routes for photographic records of graffiti; registration of their geographical coordinates and filling in specific forms for each graffiti; construction of an alphanumeric database; generation of descriptive statistics; and, later, the creation of a choropleth map, focusing on the density of the manifestations, together with statistical analyzes.