Percepções da sociedade sobre o patrimônio cultural edificado de Ponta Grossa/PR: Colégio Estadual Regente Feijó, Estação Paraná e Vila Hilda

Abstract

The municipality of Ponta Grossa, in the state of Paraná, has a vast heritage field in relation to which, for hypothesis, part of the local society is concerned with this cultural heritage and the other part, not. Thus, to prove, or not, this hypothesis, this research sought to understand how individuals perceive the built heritage as elements of the urban landscape, taking as the objective of analysis the Colégio Estadual Regente Feijó, the Estação Paraná and the Vila Hilda, all of which are cultural heritage built under the auspices of the Secretaria de Estado Educação e Cultura do Paraná (SEECPR) in 1990. For this, the research considered the current period for analysis, being permeated by the condition and the current relationship of the subjects with the objects. The geographical category used to carry out this understanding was "landscape", a category that proved to be totally satisfactory, since it promptly met the initial objectives. Regarding the operationalization of the research, the methodology used the requested application of interviews, based on the studies of Leonel Brizolla Monastirsky and Nisiane Madalozzo. These interviews were governed by the methodological technique of form and questionnaire type, and the "saturation" of similar answers is indicative for the closure of the activity, as elucidated by Martin W. Bauer and George Gaskel. The results of the research were presented through two biases: the first being the conceptual map of each built heritage studied and the second being the analysis of the perceptions common to the three heritage sites, and were analyzed as biased to any built heritage in the city. At the end of the reflections, it was noticed that the research managed to achieve the objective and solve the hypothesis raised at the beginning. It was found that the vast majority of individuals have social awareness of the representativeness of cultural heritage built, attributing importance to them and depositing values to them. Another part of the population, however, even identifies them as symbols of social backwardness.