Olindar: uma proposta para o mapeamento das quebradas do Sítio Histórico de Olinda como espaço de fruição de experiências de lazer

Abstract

Declared by UNESCO as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Historic Site of Olinda/PE has a significant amount of tangible and intangible heritage, as well as numerous products and services, which gives it a significant potential for tourist attractiveness. There are churches, convents, terreiros of religions of African origins, ateliers, bars, restaurants, bistros, food and drink stalls, hotels, inns, hostels, cultural centers, museums, art and handicraft stores, as well as carnival associations, afoxés, maracatus, bois, in short, a diversity of offer with the ability to attract people of different profiles and interests. Although with different purposes and contexts, the residents of Olinda and the frequent visitors to the Historic Site give life and meaning to a social practice that can be understood, in part, analogous to the practice of flâneur, which originated in France in the nineteenth century. to meet and find oneself, to interact with oneself, with others and with all the effervescence of this territory. From bar to bar, from street to street, from party to party, it is an experience that begins during the day and often extends until dawn. This social practice is known communally as "olindar", which, although organically constituted and unpretentiously shared, carries in its core a significant tourist and leisure potentiality; since, by having in this social practice the possibility of sharpening different perspectives, in contrast to what is commonly marketed in the tourist market, it presents its practitioners with a "different Olinda", with many more senses and opportunities for experiences of/in culture. Because it is an experience with a high level of organicity, its commodification would be inefficient, in addition to jeopardizing the maintenance of this practice. However, it must be agreed that a greater understanding of its meaning, meaning, characterization and materialization can contribute to the decision-making processes of the management of the territory, in addition to enabling the creation of strategies for a greater approximation and interaction between visitors and residents. Having as its main theoretical-methodological contribution the categories of analysis proposed by the anthropologist José Guilherme Cantor Magnani: piece (which here was chosen to be called quebrada), stain, portico, circuit and path, this work had as its main objective to map areas, flows, counterflows and strategies of occupation of the Historic Site of Olinda that materialize the social practice of "olindar". For this, field observations were carried out; dialogue circle with social actors; participatory mapping workshop; and elaboration of thematic map sketches from the My Maps - Google application. In addition to subcategories identified and incorporated into the study and the possibility of visualizing the flows and counterflows from the sketches of maps created, the investigative and analytical paths followed in this research enabled some significant inferences, among them: there is an underutilization of the Historical Site both from a tourist perspective and from a community leisure perspective; The areas experienced in the Olindar experience coincide with the areas of tourist use; the area of the Historic Site used in the olindar is quite limited; There is an erasure of intangible heritage