The contradiction of the visible: landscape interventions and solid waste management in Vasco da Gama neighborhood, Recife (PE)

Abstract

In this article we seek to highlight the popular protagonism observed in the Vasco da Gama neighborhood, in the city of Recife (PE), exposing the movement of self-management and environmental care of residents through the creation of some landscape interventions in the public space. These community actions are constructed as a way of denouncing and attempting to solve problems involving the accumulation of solid waste and the lack of leisure facilities and living spaces in the neighborhood, allowing us to problematize inequalities in access to public services in the city of Recife. As a methodological strategy, the descriptive-exploratory method was used, which uses the description of the significant characteristics of the study objective to explain possible factors that contribute to its occurrence. The analysis is developed through the observation of everyday landscape perceptions, considering that people's involvement with everyday spaces is central to solving the city's socio-environmental problems, making it necessary to understand these social actions in association with historically constructed socio-territorial inequalities. Thus, landscape interventions demonstrate that the social protagonism of inhabitants is central to the construction of sustainable and responsible strategies for living with nature, the city and its landscape expressions.