Tactical Urbanism

In the context of the fourth industrial revolution, not all regions have the same access to technology for project development. These technological limitations do not necessarily result in worst projects and, on the contrary, can stimulate creativity and human intervention to overcome these shortcomings. We report here the design of a small pavilion with scarce budget and an ambitious goal to qualify a space through tactical urbanism. We develop the project in a multidisciplinary partnership between academy and industry, designing, manufacturing and assembling Tornado Pavilion, a complex structure using combined HIGH-LOW technologies, combining visual programming with analog manufacture and assembly. The design strategy uses SIMPLEXITY with ruled surfaces strategy to achieve a complex geometry. Due to the lack of automated mechanical cutting or assembly, we used human expanded abilities for the construction; instead of a swarm of robots, we had a motivated and synchronized swarm of ...

The city of Piacenza hosts a significant portion of newcomers compared to the number of residents. However, the lack of communication between the two is also straightforward in the urban context. In this regard, an abandoned place near to the train station of Piacenza has been chosen in order apply a tactical urbanism project whose primary aim is an improved social cohesion in Pia-cenza. High financial costs and yet unsatisfactory end products slow down many design projects and even cause the denial of them. However, employing tactical urbanism perspective, the project aims to foresee the success likelihood of a complete urban design project without requiring a significant budget. Preliminarily proposed idea is to provide a gathering space for the residents of Piacenza in a vacant space. By doing so, the project area has been analyzed and the project that responsive to the problems of the area is introduced in order to give a reference for further applications on a larger scale.

sul territorio "Lelio Pagani" nel campo delle politiche e degli strumenti di Pianificazione/Programmazione del territorio. Referente per l'Università degli Studi di Bergamo della rete europea UNISCAPE. Dal 2015 è Prorettore delegato dell'Università degli Studi di Bergamo per i rapporti con enti e istituzioni pubbliche del territorio.

‘Do It Yourself’ (DIY) urbanism is usually initiated by community members using a
grassroots approach to change urban areas. Community planning involves making decisions about urban areas. This paper examines topics regarding DIY urbanism and community planning. Community engagement, neoliberalism and municipal support are key influences of DIY urbanism related to planning. DIY urbanism impacts the planner’s role as well as the relationships between planners, communities and municipalities. Three Canadian examples of DIY urbanism are introduced, including the Urban Repair Squad, PARK(ing) Day, and CITYlab. Discussion focuses on the opportunities and potential challenges of DIY urbanism for planners to consider. Potential challenges include public safety and municipal liability. Recommendations for planners regarding DIY urbanism are provided. DIY urbanism can be beneficial if planners work collaboratively and focus on small scale, low cost improvements.

Unsanctioned, unscripted, and seemingly “undesirable” activities have long appropriated urban spaces in routine and sometimes unexpected ways, bringing new meanings and unforeseen functions to those places. In the last decade or so, such practices have inspired a growing movement under the banner of DIY and tactical urbanisms. The growing acceptance of these practices creates important openings in the formalized planning systems for greater flexibility and expedient change. Yet, the institutionalization of previously informal and even subversive acts has resulted in concerns regarding co-optation and de-politicization. This special issue seeks to pivot a refocus towards these unsanctioned and unscripted urban activities as a form of counter-hegemonic spatial practices, distinct from its professionalized and institutionalized counterpart. A range of cases is examined here sharing similar characteristics as challenges against the prevailing social and political paradigm. Key findings include the scalability of guerrilla actions, the fluid shift between overt and covert actions, and the linkage between everyday struggles and organized resistance. This special issue is intended to advance our understanding of urban design by situating it in a broader social, economic, and political praxis that encompasses both formal and informal practices performed by a wide variety of individual and collective actors.

“Urbanismo tático: um guia para as cidades brasileiras” foi criado para difundir a abordagem do urbanismo tático no Brasil e para auxiliar na implantação de ações nas nossas cidades, empoderando cidadãos a promoverem transformações dos espaços públicos com as próprias mãos. Está voltado a todos aqueles que se preocupam com o ambiente urbano e as cidades. Seja do setor público ou privado, arquiteto ou não, o que importa é a vontade de dar um novo significado aos espaços públicos, com prioridade para as pessoas. Para colocar a mão na massa e tirar um projeto do papel, é preciso ser proativo e ter vontade de transformar. O resto você vai aprender com a leitura deste guia.

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El presente documento hace visible los resultados de un ejercicio investigativo llevado a cabo por el equipo del Laboratorio de Cultura Ciudadana durante 2016. Particularmente, durante 2016 se realizó una pesquisa que tuvo por objetivo mapear, caracterizar y analizar casos y buenas prácticas de cultura ciudadana a nivel internacional, nacional, regional y local con el ánimo de constituir un banco, y con la intención de brindar pistas al Laboratorio sobre posibles proyectos e iniciativas a desarrollar o implementar en la ciudad.

De la misma manera, esta intervención académica buscó identificar actores, instituciones y narrativas que ayuden a orientar prácticas de cultura ciudadana positivas para Medellín en el mediano y largo plazo.

Para tal efecto, el equipo de investigación diseñó una estrategia metodológica de carácter mixta dialéctica (inductiva–deductiva) que permitió crear categorías de análisis cuantitativas para este objeto de estudio (construcción de bases de datos con variables descriptivas analíticas) y, de igual manera, edificar categorías analíticas cualitativas que hicieron posible la construcción de bases documentales muestrales aleatorias de rango moderado temporal, la realización de estudios de caso, la redacción de bitácoras de análisis, al igual que mantener comunicaciones y entrevistas con expertos durante todo el tiempo que duró esta indagación.

PARACITY Magazine presenting the modular organic parasitic urban structure developed for flooding, tsunami-risk, post-industrial and slum areas. Presented in the China Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFAM Biennale 2014. Casagrande Laboratory Center of Urban Research CURE.

This paper follows the principles of Tactical Urbanism. It presents an approach to solving problems of vendors in Cairo. The core issue revolving around: "make a relative balance in the application of the principles of Tactical Urbanism taking into account the achievement of the urban design dimensions especially the behavioral one to accommodate the change and robustness in human needs and rights.” The research structure depends on three objectives. First, it interprets the concepts of Tactical Urbanism and Place theory. Second, it analysises the current scene in selected case study.  Third, the paper designs an approach to open a wide dispensary to solve the vending problem. The contribution of the approach is to deal with the general problem in the Egyptian context caused by vendors. Finally, the paper tests the principles and the approach of tactical urbanism in informal sectors in the Egyptian urban fabric.

The publication deals with the issue of evaluating the effects of the currently followed urban policies, especially in reference to the so-called nightmare of participation. The book is part of a debate concerned with phenomena such as urban social conflicts, the revitalization of urban space, urban planning and housing policies. The author analyses the problem of gentrification in Poland and its links to revitalization programmes. The publication in based on the author’s research on the bottom-up production of space in Warsaw, New York, and Istanbul.

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Este artigo apresenta o conceito de amabilidade urbana, uma qualidade específica do espaço público submetido a uma intervenção temporária. Trata-se de um atributo espacial que se manifesta através de conexões e interações entre pessoas e espaço, opondo-se ao individualismo que por muitas vezes caracteriza as formas de convívio coletivo contemporâneas. Através da construção teórica do conceito, e da verificação dele em uma constelação de intervenções temporárias no mundo ocidental, objetiva-se defender a amabilidade como uma qualidade urbana dotada de dimensão física, que surge como um importante legado das intervenções temporárias praticadas nos espaços coletivos. O trabalho traz como contribuição a amabilidade urbana como a qualidade do espaço da intervenção: enquanto a intervenção temporária representa a ruptura positiva do cotidiano, a amabilidade significa a ruptura de hábitos individuais cristalizados no espaço coletivo. Esse aporte pode contribuir para o projeto de novos espaços coletivos que permitam, e estimulem, mais intervenções temporárias, sempre visando à cidade como a reunião de espaços coletivos mais amáveis.

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This paper introduces the concept of urban amiability, a specific quality of the public space submitted to a temporary intervention. Urban amiability is a spatial attribute that is manifested through the connections and interactions between people and space, as opposed to individualism that often characterizes the contemporary forms of collective living. Through the construction of the theoretical concept and by verifying its existence on a number of temporary interventions in the western world, the text aims at supporting amiability as an urban quality with a physical dimension which emerges as an important legacy of temporary interventions practiced in collective spaces. The paper means to contribute to present amiability as the quality of intervention on urban space. While the temporary intervention represents a positive break from everyday life, amiability means the breaking of individual habits crystallized in the collective space. What is meant here is also is to contribute to the design of new collective spaces that would allow and encourage more temporary interventions, always with the view of the city as a meeting of a more “amiably” qualified collective spaces.

Projects like the ones in Savda Ghevra brings to light the fact that to create functional cities as a positive environment for all kinds of citizens, there is a need to move away from the existing approach of simplifying it into a single module that fits all. A city is made up of diverse groups each with their own needs and demands. And as long as the government cannot set aside its assumptions and treat them as mere faceless statistics to be designed for, it will continue creating communities like Savda Ghevra. Hence instead of evicting citizens to another place where they lie in wait to face similar issues as their previous site, what the city need is to empower its citizens to make their own choices regarding their homes and engage with the stakeholders to make affordable housing accessible to the urban poor

In an era rocked by climate change and other disruptions, our cities
must be resilient to survive and thrive. But what does that mean, exactly?
How can we address the problems facing cities today—poverty, job loss,
crumbling infrastructure, pollution—while preparing for an uncertain
tomorrow? To help answer those questions, Island Press launched the Urban Resilience Project, with support from The Kresge Foundation and The JPB Foundation. We began by reaching out to a diverse group of thinkers— activists, academics, architects and many others. And we asked them to help envision the sustainable, equitable, resilient cities of the future. In 2015, those thinkers produced a wide-ranging series of articles, blogs and op-eds, which are collected in this volume.

Public space is still one of the most complex architectural and urban planning programs due to the
fact that it is compelled to adapt and meet the increasingly specific needs of a high diversity of users. The
purpose of this paper is to show how the principles of design and intervention in public space evolve with the
shifting needs and expectations of its users. Therefore the first part summarizes the basic principles
developed by specialists in public space starting from William Holly Whyte's studies to the latest publication of
Jan Gehl. In order to adapt to the current context of public spaces in a shifting period, three major trends in
development and design of these places, namely: ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Pop-Up
Urbanism and Tactical Urbanism, are presented. The last part of the article briefly describes and evaluates the
University Square as public space. To illustrate the potential of new trends, this final segment shows how PopUp
interventions or ICT can significantly improve the quality of a representative public space.

Transitoire, éphémère, temporaire, la pratique de l'aménagement et de l'urbanisme s'enrichit depuis maintenant plusieurs années d'un nouveau vocabulaire. Celui-ci vise à décrire l’importance que prennent certaines actions de court terme concernant l’occupation et l’aménagement des bâtiments et des espaces dans les logiques de la fabrique de la ville.
L’objet de cet article est de proposer un système de définitions couvrant le spectre de ces actions intermédiaires, de court et moyen terme. Il parait important de bien nommer ces différentes actions tant elles questionnent l’urbanisme traditionnel dans ses approches planificatrices et de long terme tout en se présentant comme de nouveaux outils aux formes et aux objectifs multiples.

This paper follows the principles of Tactical Urbanism. It presents an approach to solve problems of vendors in Cairo. The core issue revolving around: "make a relative balance in the application of the principles of Tactical Urbanism taking into account the achievement of the urban design dimensions especially the behavioral one to accommodate the change and robustness in human needs and rights.” The research structure depends on three objectives. First, it interprets the concepts of Tactical Urbanism and Place theory. Second, it analysises the current scene in selected case study.  Third, the paper designs an approach to open a wide dispensary to solve the vending problem. The contribution of the approach is to deal with the general problem in the Egyptian context caused by vendors. Finally, the paper tests the principles and the approach of tactical urbanism in informal sectors in the Egyptian urban fabric.

This dissertation explores how we can both imaginatively and practically build another world, another future. Infrastructures of the imagination means using imaginative techniques to design new cities that are sustainable, pluralistic, and democratic. It also involves building better infrastructures for everyday citizens to collaboratively participate in the process of envisioning, designing, testing, and implementing the future. By working directly with everyday citizens and urban residents, designers not only gain novel ideas but also develop a diversity of conceptual models for development. The chapters within this dissertation lay out an interdisciplinary theory and history of media arts, technologies, and urban designs related to the collaborative creation of alternative futures, utopic impulses, and political interventions. The analyses showcase a spectrum of forms, from time-based media (film, games, and VR) to place-based designs (mobile media, community art, and urbanism), in order to reveal a range of complementary and overlapping strategies. In addition to historical examples, I weave in my own ongoing community-driven speculative design projects in order to ground the more theoretical discussions and provide pragmatic methodologies and lessons learned. The final dissertation research stems from six years of community engagement work in South Los Angeles, in the historic African-American music and arts neighborhood of Leimert Park. My co-researchers and I have facilitated teams of community members and university students to create a range of real and speculative urban designs tied to local culture. In the final chapter, I provide a methodological and theoretical framework for “anticipatory design” in order for other practitioners and researchers to gain insights for their own ongoing and future projects.  Infrastructures of the imagination is not about imagination in a pure whimsical sense, but is rooted in real-world issues and wicked problems, problems such as gentrification, affordability, and sustainability. These problems are multifaceted and require a diverse collaboration across disciplines, generations, cultures, and ethnicities. By working in conjunction, we are able to bring unique insights and expertise that complement one another and create more holistic solutions for building a better future.

Systems, demography and life in Indian cities is facing complex transformation. Rapid urbanization has put forth the demand for a new thinking process of planned development. In recent past, small scale attempts to improve urban areas, referred a stactical urbanism, have inspired planners around the world to consider low-cost, experimental and incremental projects as a means to sustainable urban development. The momentum of tactical urbanism has been in creasing; however, the role of planners and the importance of such experiments in professional planning exercises, especially in India, remain undefined. The research investigates how tactical projects allow citizens to participate in urban change, and give planners a chance to develop inclusive, acceptable and sustainable planning policies over a period of time. Drawing satisfactory evidence on tactical approach to urban planning, findings of the research suggest that if our cities require big plans and policies, they also require small tactics, and the momentum of huge visionary policies can also be collectively attained by smaller tactical projects and schemes.

Özet Bu çalışmanın konusu, taktiksel kentçiliğin, kuramsal altyapısı, nedenleri, kapsamı, farklı yöntemleri ve güncel örnekleri ile birlikte ele alınarak, incelenmesidir. Taktiksel kentçilik (Tactical Urbanism), Bricolage, Urban Acupuncture, ve Urban First Aid gibi kavramsal yaklaşımların, ortak eylem biçimi olarak tanımlanmıştır. Çalışmada taktiksel kentçilik pratiklerinin, anafikirlerin elde ediliş ortamları ve yaygınlaşma ortamlarına göre sınıflandırılması amaçlanmış; bulgular sanat/zanaat ve gündelik taktik/ kentsel strateji kavram çiftleri ile tartışılmıştır. Taktiksel kentçilik, anti-modernist, eleştirel, teorik bir zemine oturduğu ve taktiksel nitelikte bir anafikir kentse müdahalenin başlangıç koşulu olduğu için bir sanat formudur. Kentlileri harekete geçirmesi açısından kentlilik bilincinin yeni formlarını ortaya çıkartan bir vernaküler sanat, kentsel zanaattır. Taktiksel kentçilik pratikleri, gündelik hayatın anti-otoriter karakterinde oldukları için disipliner, denetleyici pratiklere, stratejilere ve kuramsal yaklaşımlara dönüştürülemezler. Ancak, taktiksel kentselcilik hareketi, meşru ve formal kentsel stratejilere dönüştürülmekte hatta akademik çevrelerce de bir kentsel tasarım yöntemi olarak meşrulaştırılmaktadır. Anahtar Kelimeler: gündelik hayat, mikro-mekansal kentsel pratikler, taktiksel kentçilik, Michel De Certeau Abstract This study aims to analyze tactical urbanism, by handling it with its theoretical framework, causes, extent, various methods and current examples. Tactical Urbanism is defined as the common action method of varied conceptual approaches such as Guerrilla Urbanism,, Urban Bricolage, Urban Acupuncture, and Urban First Aid. Tactical Urbanism is categorized into its production areas and dissemination areas and discussed with daily tactics/urban strategy, art/craft dualities. Tactical Urbanism is an art form since it upholds an anti-modernist theoretical intellectual ground and a creative thought forms an initial condition for experimental study. It is a vernacular art, even an urban craft that reveals new forms of urbanity awareness in regard to bringing citizens into action. Tactical urbanism practices have a structure that can't be transformed into theoretical approaches that are in use and design methods. However tactical urbanism movement that is adopted and put into action also by public institutions, is being legalized as urban formal strategies and even being legitimized as an urban design method by academia.

This thesis explores the history and current practice of Intersection-Repair-style street paintings in Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. It assesses relationships between functions street paintings perform and reasons people want to paint, and suggests that the better these factors align, the greater the likelihood of successful street painting projects that can contribute to city livability and sustainability goals. Street painting history was gathered via archival research, site visits, and interviews with city officials in Portland and Seattle and people from the City Repair Project in Portland. Seattle street painting organizers and participants shared their motivations and experiences via interviews and an online survey. After assessing street painting processes and outcomes in Seattle and comparing municipal guidance to that in Portland where the street painting phenomenon originated, this thesis suggests ways to improve Seattle’s messaging and municipal rules and guidance to support better alignment between street painters’ motivations and painting functions.

Spatial inequality is the development of public space that selects and benefits certain constituencies over others, with direct effects on how space is used, and by whom. Over time it can contribute to socio-political conflict and unrest.

Tactical urbanism is a contemporary form of civic intervention that employs “low-cost, temporary measures” in the civic realm (as defined by Pfeifer’s The Planner’s Guide to Tactical Urbanism) and is primarily initiated by private citizens at a local neighbourhood level. It offers a potential solution to spatial inequality by avoiding the lengthy bureaucratic & resource-intensive processes used by governments & private institutions.

In order to unpack the ephemeral nature of tactical urbanism an experimental board game was used to explore the relationships between key role-players and design interventions, in contrast with territory and spatial qualities.

The board game is used to generate hypothetical scenarios where these characters attempt to upgrade territories with temporary tactical interventions. These design scenarios are tested against demographic, climatic and resource constraints, and are required to use a limited palette of materials. When applied to the test site, namely Foundry Road in Salt River, one can evaluate the relative success of the different design scenarios embodied by characters with different agendas and resources, and further consider the legacy that these temporary installations leave behind.

Exploring the nature of tactical urbanism through these scenarios broaches questions about the role of designers in urban public space and offers an alternative to normative strategic design.

Transient, ephemeral, temporary, the practice of planning and urban development has been enriched with a new vocabulary for several years now. The purpose of this article is to describe the importance that certain short-term actions concerning the occupation and development of buildings and spaces are taking on in the logic of the city’s making. Studies and press articles on the subject are multiplying, a market is being formed with specialized actors (collectives, companies, associations), procedures are being structured within local authorities and development actors (landlords, promoters, developers): it goes from dedicated job offers for project management assistants in transitional urban planning or temporary development to calls for expressions of interest concerning the occupation of buildings or temporary occupation proposals in urban requalification projects, etc. The purpose of this article is to propose a system of definitions covering the spectrum of these different actions as they question traditional urban planning in its long-term approaches and present themselves as new tools with multiple forms and objectives. But a little step backwards is necessary beforehand.

Ce guide pratique sur l'étude et la mise en oeuvre des projets temporaires, a été conçu pour l'Union Sociale de L'Habitat à l'attention des organismes Hlm. Il renseigne les questions importantes à se poser à toutes les étapes d'un projet temporaire : définition, montage, mise en oeuvre, réalisation, gestion de site, animation, préparation et fin du projet. Les principaux enseignements des projets sont abordés sous différents angles : volet économique et financier, gouvernance, gestion de site et vie locale, participation des usagers... Le premier chapitre brosse le portrait des différents types de projets temporaires et de leur utilité pour un bailleur dans un projet urbain et dans un territoire. Le second chapitre énumère les conditions importantes à prendre en compte pour lancer un projet temporaire et les implications pour un organisme Hlm. Le troisième chapitre aborde la mise en oeuvre opérationnelle de tels projets. Le quatrième chapitre synthétise les grandes étapes d'un projet tempo-raire, d'un point de vue méthodologique. w Le document s'accompagne de 11 fiches de retours d'expérience sur des projets aux thématiques diverses : aménagements temporaires d'espaces extérieurs, jardins et nature en ville, activités économiques dans des locaux vacants, commerces et services de proximité, interventions artistiques et culturelles. Une boîte à outils constituée de modèles de documents opérationnels (appel à manifestation d'intérêt, cahier des charges, conventions, etc.), directement mobilisables pour conduire un projet.

This discussion of participatory urbanism will
describe the context from which it emerged in
the United States, define the term and its current
manifestation, and describe an early example of
participatory urbanism seeded by digital tools, in
order to raise questions about the role of participatory
urbanism in the making of place in the
twenty-first century.

In an era rocked by climate change and other large-scale disruptions, our cities must be resilient in order to survive and thrive. But what does that mean, exactly? What is known about urban resilience, and what remains to be explored? And how can we put thinking into practice to create the resilient cities of the future?

To help answer those questions, Island Press launched the Urban Resilience Project in 2013, with support from The Kresge Foundation. We began with a survey of the existing literature on resilience and reached out to a diverse group of organizers, researchers, planners, and other urban change agents. In a series of interviews and an all-day assembly, we listened deeply to what they had to say. This report endeavors to capture what we learned.

Localizado no centro de Brasília, o Conic, um complexo de edifícios no Setor de Diversões Sul, foi concebido por Lucio Costa como um lugar sofisticado e cosmopolita para abrigar funções voltadas ao comércio e ao entretenimento. No entanto, o Conic é hoje considerado por muitos como o " avesso de Brasília ". Devido às irregularidades durante a sua construção e principalmente aos usos e apropriações do espaço ao longo da sua história, é um lugar esquecido por boa parte da população e principalmente pelas autoridades locais. Por um lado, este abandono acabou gerando um espaço único em Brasília que reúne muita diversidade social e cultural. Por outro, o descaso com o Conic acabou gerando espaços colaterais e lugares ociosos que poderiam ser melhor aproveitados. Portanto, é preciso intervir de maneira delicada e consciente para que no processo de melhoria do espaço e consequente valorização do mesmo, não ocorra um processo de gentrificação, descaracterizando o Conic que conhecemos hoje. Neste contexto, o trabalho a seguir apresenta os procedimentos e as propostas de intervenção, que envolvem a participação da comunidade, o urbanismo tático e a arte urbana como orientações da regeneração urbana e da valorização do Conic, por meio de intervenções interativas in loco, estruturas temporárias, mobiliário com reaproveitamento de materiais, pintura de empenas e pavimento, visando o baixo custo, porém, com grande impacto.

Palavras-chave: regeneração urbana; processo participativo; urbanismo tático; Conic; Brasília.

Located in central Brasilia, Conic, a complex of buildings in the Sector of Amusement, was conceived by Lucio Costa as a sophisticated and cosmopolitan place aimed to house commercial and entertainment functions. However, Conic is now considered by many as the "reverse of Brasilia". Due to irregularities during its construction and especially to the uses and appropriations of space throughout its history, it is a place forgotten by most of the population and especially by local authorities. On one hand, this indifference has generated a unique place in Brasilia that brings a lot of social and cultural diversity. On the other hand, the neglect of Conic ended up generating idle side spaces and places that could be better used. Therefore, it is necessary to intervene in a delicate and conscious way in order to avoid gentrification during the process of improvement and consequent appreciation of Conic's public spaces, discomposing the Conic we know today. In this context, the work below shows the procedures and intervention proposals, involving community participation, tactical urbanism and urban art as guidelines for urban regeneration and recognition of Conic through interactive interventions, temporary structures and urban furniture with reuse of materials, wall and floor painting, aimed at low cost interventions but with great impact.

This paper proposes a reflection on the tactical modes of production and consumption of spatial structures from the study of urban situations located in the center and the periphery. The argument is based on the critique of political economy applied to the social production of space, as discussed by Michel de Certeau, David Harvey, and Neil Brenner. The Marxist concept of estrangement (Entfremdung) is the basis for the presentation of Tactical Urbanism as an alternative to Neoliberal Urbanism, as it reveals the dialectics between production and consumption. Suppose the human condition depends on work, production, and consumption. In that case, the critique must be about the modes of producing and consuming and about the processes of objectification, subjectification, and material appropriation. I recognize the everyday life importance of tactical practices, and I identify the contradictions inherent in the approach by presenting four examples. They were selected according to their position concerning the center on a global and a local scale: the "Central Line Party" in London (United Kingdom), located in the center of a city in the Global North; the "Station Beach" in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), in a central neighborhood in the South; the "Park (ing) Day" in San Francisco (United States), in a peripheral region in the North; and "Nego's Playground" in Esmeraldas (Brazil), on the outskirts of a peripheral city in the Global South. These cases reveal the different material conditions of neoliberal cooptation. The tactical practices of the periphery reveal other possibilities of disruption of the neoliberal strategic planning system.

A presente dissertação é fruto de uma investigação sobre formas e possibilidades de atuação política na cidade contemporânea. Em contraponto direto à crise de projeto e da representatividade política instaurada na contemporaneidade, as ações de urbanismo tático pareciam inicialmente responder aos anseios desta investigação. Tratam-se de atos apropriativos e de ativação de espaços da cidade movidos pelas próprias populações. Mas uma análise dos discursos políticos produzidos pelos agentes do caso de urbanismo tático desenvolvido no Largo da Batata (SP), dão a ver a fraqueza de atos baseados na oposição entre sociedade civil e Estado. Explicitamos de que forma estas ações são atravessadas pelo poder biopolítico e pelas estruturas da cidade neoliberal. Mas se a cartografia complexa e microfísica das relações de poder contemporâneo incide sobre os corpos e vidas de todos e de cada um, então uma ação política não necessariamente deve se dar em afronta ao aparelho de Estado. Assim vemos emergir de uma miríade de práticas sua potência micropolítica, dentre elas, a arte no regime estético. Seu caráter eminentemente dissensual produz fissuras na partilha do sensível e, em contato com o espectador emancipado, possibilita a produção de singularidades, a contrapelo das experiências massificantes que predominam nas grandes cidades contemporâneas. Ao final desta dissertação nos debruçamos sobre as relações entre corpo, política e cidade nos trabalhos artísticos do coletivo Opavivará!, apresentados de forma ensaística.

Workshop report on tactical urbanism for Heerenstraat, in Paramaribo's Historic Inner City. A collaboration between TU Delft's European Post-master in Urbanism, the Inter-American Development Bank and Suriname's Ministry of Education in support of the Paramaribo Urban Rehabilitation Program.