A questão do patrimônio no Rio de Janeiro dos mega eventos

Abstract

In this paper, we mapped some civil society actions defending natural and architectural heritage in Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of the renovation launched for the 2014 Fifa World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Our research is based on the dossier from the ‘Communal Committee for World Cup and Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro’, published in June 2014, including a hole session of violations of heritage that mentions the absence of impact studies, the disrespect with protected areas and the law changes in order to make the renovation works progress. In this paper, besides the impact provoked by the sportive equipments themselves, we considered the uncountable urban renovation works, as the ones occurred in Mauá Square and XV de Novembro Square - transformed by the implementation of the LRV system and an underground tunnel – and another one occurred in the harbor place, the Porto Maravilha project. All these places revealed old pavements and routes, and rails and traces from the colonial city, that called attention of the citizens, but unfortunately none had been done, as a preservation master plan. Communal initiatives, as the S.O.S. Patrimônio group (S.O.S. Heritage) or the movements Ocupa Marina (Ocupy Marina) and Ocupa Golfe (Ocupy Golf) tried to call media and public agencies attention to Downtown archaeological finds and to the devastation of the protected areas of Aterro do Flamengo and APA Marapendi. All of these movements, spontaneously organized by civil society, enlarge the people engagement and become necessary tools of discussion with a huge influence in the construction of a heritage documentation and legal pressure for heritage protection. This article intends to understand how initiatives like these allow the increase of the heritage discussion inside urban intercropped interventions, generally a hostile space for this kind of appropriation and discussions.