Por Regina Cohen e Cristiane Rose de S. Duarte

The research hereby presented outlines the use and appropriation of
spaces according to the movement people with disability or reduced mobility
perform. Our aim is to develop an interdisciplinary approach of the
perception in movement – once there are different body postures – and to
take into consideration the intersensorial dimension of the urban experience.
For our investigation we have adopted the “method of annotated
routes” by Jean-Paul Thibaud, for whom local characteristics are analysed,
mostly, in terms of physical barriers to perception. If the author understands
‘perceiving’ as an embodiement of sensorial elements affected
by the type of perceptive mobilization, in this thesis it is this ‘different’
movement that allows the understanding of the relation among “City,
Body and Disability” and of “Possible Routes and Speeches in the Urban
Experience”. The analysis of the urban perception in movement of People
with Mobility Difficulty has been acquired in the context of four brazilian
cities: Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Juiz de Fora and Brasília. The data extracted
from this analysis make us point out the existing paradox between
those people and urban planners’ perceived, experienced and imagined cities.
The lack of identity people with disability have towards the analysed
places has also demonstrated that they cannot improve their sense of belonging
and appropriation of the city and their urban experience.
Keywords: Body. Disability. Urban Space. Route. Urban Experience.

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