Movements of urban occupation: a theoric integration through the Concept of Happening

Abstract

This article discusses urban occupations as dynamics of discourse that compose meanings and senses to the public space, through the conception of happening. It seeks to explain the dialogic processes that occur in these events and that occur in these manifestations and that count on the contribution of several psychological, cultural and historical factors. Therefore, it is the urban setting as one of the vectors that contributes to the formation of the narratives in the city, and they urge us to think about the relations of appropriation of space as creating places of experience in the social context. These events are understood as a means of interaction that put in challenge issues such as collective space and freedom of expression, a kind of communicational space frontier, in a dialogical construction. In this di­rection it constitutes the metropolis while rebuilding the environment in which subjectivities, in interactions of iden­tification and differentiation that create a dynamic construction of the notion of the self and the other. It is thought of the urban manifestations as happenings, in which the construction of otherness and therefore the relational identity gets involved with social processes with more far reaching, occupying a space of communicational frontier.