FEAR MOVES: Different experiences of urbanity at the Jane’s Walk Recife Festival 2016, 2017, and 2022

Authors

  • Lívia Nóbrega Departamento de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12621

Abstract

This paper reflects on fear as a constant, and not a variable, in the experience of urbanity in cities. To this end, it takes as an object three editions of the Jane’s Walk Festival in Recife: What makes a street safe for women? (2016), We ask for light (2017), and The city as a support for public art and life (2022). Despite the themes, participants, and different paths, all of them were crossed by fear. These crossings provide the three axes that guide the discussion of each case, namely: 1) Asymmetries; 2) Mitigations; 3) Memories – in a present, future, and past relationship with fear. Finally, a change of perspective is suggested in the way fear moves us, with
strategies that point to a less individual and more collective approach, that is, less focused on avoiding it and
more stimulating to face it.


Keywords: fear, Jane’s Walk, urbanity, walkability

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Published

2024-03-06

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Section

SIIU2023_RECIFE