O olhar sobre a cidade através do desenho e as dinâmicas coletivas dos Urban Sketchers (Natal/RN)

Abstract

This research aims to understand how the Urban Sketchers´ collective (Natal/RN) establishes their relationships with the city and reflect on the practice of drawing as a tool for knowledge production. For this, we take as the central object of analysis the relationship of the Urban Sketchers´ collective with the city, through the modality of registering urban landscapes. The relationships between the studied group and the city of Natal/RN present unfoldings, such as the political issues surrounding the transformations in the urban landscapes, the sense of collectivity promoted by the dynamics of the collective, and the practice of collective drawing as a catalyst of affective memories. The practice of location drawing is related to the debate around drawing as a tool for research and knowledge analysis. Thus, the present study aims to contribute to the debate in the field of Graphic Anthropology, following a line of reflection on the issues of cognitive science. The fieldwork was conducted throughout 2019, in person, and in 2020 and 2021, online, due to the period of social isolation caused by the COVID– 19 pandemic.