Mixing as reading/listening to territory narratives

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from original research aiming at recognizing territories from their narratives. The territory clinic method, based on drifting, listening and writing, to map, was tried out by the main author under the co-author’s advisement. Sentences and expressions written on walls, here called “grapixos,” were read as territory narratives based on a construed process called “text mixing.” This paper seeks to present the mixing proposal as a way to read/listen to narratives of territorial spaces and to analyze their problems, potentialities, and results. Its main result shows that mixing grapixos with the researcher’s “escrevivência” an appropriate method to reveal discursive layers of the territory concealed or silenced.

Keywords:
mixing; reading; listening; narrative; territory