Public Facilities as Spaces for Transformative Social Technology in Slums and Urban Communities

Abstract

In the research on social technologies adopted by social movements in the context of confronting inequality and as political action, netnography, in its search for disruptive local initiatives, has led to the emergence of a cultural, theatrical, and performance group based on research and a desire to express itself to the world—resulting in occupying public space. Ethnography and interviews were also conducted to understand the motivations, organizational forms, and languages, analyzing them from the perspective of the bibliographic foundations of coloniality, territory, and human and subjective expressions amidst the technological frenzy. The aim is to interpret the context, perceiving capitalist contradictions, market fabrications, and communicative, creative, artistic, political, and economic possibilities arising from community engagement aimed at cultural formation through research and performance.