Teatro Oficina
On the critical intersection of theater, activism and urbanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12580889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeroen Stevens (0000-0003-0451-1724, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-118 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-4813 • E-ISSN: 1470-3629 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13604813.2022.2030530 |
| OpenAlex | W4214530903 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
The main argument of this article holds that São Paulo’s notorious Teatro Oficina has been working toward an emblematic form of critical urbanism ever since its inauguration in 1958. Throughout six decades, the theater has been an urbanistic laboratory, where a combination of theatrical, architectural and urban experiments continuously reflected and reacted upon ongoing metropolitan transformations. Located in São Paulo’s downtown neighborhood of Bixiga, Teatro Oficina’s architectural history involves a complex assembly of artistic, social, intellectual, architectural and urbanistic movements. By unfolding a spatial memoir of the theater, this contribution probes the agency of theater-architecture as a means for investigating and intervening in the spatial production and reproduction of the city. In doing so, the aim is to examine the distinct quest for a more profound right to the city that emanates from such ‘theatrical-architectural’ critique and action. If implementing the right to the city is indeed critical urban theory’s ultimate purpose, how then has Oficina been perpetually putting such right into debate and practice? In other words, what form of critical urbanism emanates from the distinctive convergence of movements in theater, architecture and urbanism
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Architectural theory · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Downtown · Social science · Sociology · Urbanism · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · History · Public Spaces through Art · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Architecture
Seeking Spatial Justice
The right to the city
Misplaced ideas
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Insurgent Citizenship
Reassembling the Social
The Human Condition
From critical urban theory to the right to the city
Insurgent planning
Social movements as ‘critical urban planning’ agents
The ‘Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements
On Allotopia
Lefebvre and the Right to the Open City
Public Space on the Run
What is critical urban theory
History of 'Spiritist madness' in Brazil
Cities and Social Movements
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
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