Banca de DEFESA: MARIA ALICE PEREIRA DA SILVA

SPIRITUAL GOVERNANCE: THE SACRED AFRO- BRAZILIAN IN THE BUILDING OF THE PARK MEMORIAL XANGÔ STONE

Spiritual Governance. Cosmoperception, Africanity. Landscape architecture. Ambience aesthetics.

In African societies and in African philosophy, the formation of everything that exists is governed by the existence of vital energy. The world, including humanity, is represented by the existence of visible and invisible energies, which must be in harmony and balance. Beings have mind, spirit and soul, jointly and harmoniously. You invisible beings, spirits are part of a world in interaction with the visible world. Within this African universe of knowledge, religion and life, the concept of Spiritual Governance. In great opposition to Western hegemony, the views of the Eurocentric world, the concepts of vital energy and Spiritual Governance are postulates of African and Afro-descendant religions and philosophies that rule out dichotomy between human beings and nature. The Spiritual Governance of Sites Sacred natural resources are also part of indigenous cultures. Through their rituals and their way of living, thinking and feeling life, the original peoples protect and defend the biodiversity in the world. African and Afro-Brazilian religions have always started from the belief of pluriversal and pluripresent deities materialized and represented by the elements of nature. Thus, the main theoretical source of the thesis is the Afro-Brazilian Spiritual Governance, that is, the concept contained in Candomblé and what is known about. Candomblé as a theory of life conception. In addition to the factor religious, the conception of how the world operates. Paradigm of African science, the Afro-Brazilian Spiritual Governance is the energy of Axé (vital energy), the energy of deities in the decision process, in the case under study, of (Ori) entations of actions urban planning and architecture. Given these meanings, the scope of the thesis is to understand the importance of Afro-Brazilian Spiritual Governance as a founding element for the construction of support equipment for Pedra de Xangô Park.As for the objectives specific ones consist of: I- investigating how Xangô inspired and convinced the power public, technicians and academics involved in the conception of the architectural project for the implementation of support equipment at Parque Pedra de Xangô to carry out their orders; II - identify the strategies used by adherents of matrix religions Afro-Brazilian communities to enable the construction of a park prospected from their cosmoperception of the world, with an emphasis on the histories, cultures and values of black people in diaspora; III - describe the project’s differences, explaining the meanings and reasons of the various elements that make up the architecture of buildings. Methodologically, the route was woven, in a combined way, and followed the following paths: methodology of Afro-descendant research, observant system (inspired by systemic thinking); technique of cartography of controversies (based on theoretical- methodological aspects of Actor-Network Theory — ANT); bibliographic and documentary research; daily virtual field; interviews; systematization, analysis of speeches and content. You results? It is what has been built and what is to come. Founding element, address of orixás, voduns, inquices, caboclos and enchanted ones, the Stone of Xangô, enchanted nature through the flow of axé, through festivals and rituals, in the relationship between territory and terreiro, it wove and conceived his own contemporary architecture, the architecture of Justice of Xangô, allowing the terreiros, paths and crossroads to become sacred places in network. (In)conclusions: Pedra de Xangô Park is a fluid, circular architecture, in trance, itinerant, in movement, in constant transformation. In summary, a architecture of re-enchantment, sacred, counter-hegemonic that questions hermeneutics Western, Eurocentric narratives and chooses as aesthetics of ambiance the norms of Axé's power.